HMS Royal Sovereign (1891)
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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Royal Sovereign.
HMS Royal Sovereign was the lead ship of the seven ships in her class of pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy in the 1890s. The ship was commissioned in 1892 and served as the flagship of the Channel Fleet for the next five years. She was transferred to the Mediterranean Fleet in 1897 and returned home in 1902, and was briefly assigned as a coast guard ship before she began a lengthy refit in 1903–1904. Royal Sovereign was reduced to reserve in 1905 and was taken out of service in 1909. The ship was sold for scrap four years later and subsequently broken up in Italy.
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HMS Royal Sovereign at anchor, about 1897 | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | Royal Sovereign |
Ordered | Naval Defence Act 1889 |
Builder | Portsmouth Dockyard |
Laid down | 30 September 1889 |
Launched | 26 February 1891 |
Sponsored by | Queen Victoria |
Completed | May 1892 |
Commissioned | 31 May 1892 |
Decommissioned | 9 September 1909 |
Fate | Sold for scrap, 7 October 1913 |
General characteristics (as built) | |
Class and type | Royal Sovereign-class predreadnought battleship |
Displacement | 14,150 long tons (14,380 t) (normal) |
Length | 380 ft (115.8 m) (pp) 410.5 ft (125.1 m) (oa) |
Beam | 75 ft (22.9 m) |
Draught | 27 ft 6 in (8.4 m) |
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Propulsion | 2 shafts; 2 Triple-expansion steam engines |
Speed | 17.5 knots (32.4 km/h; 20.1 mph) |
Range | 4,720 nmi (8,740 km; 5,430 mi) @ 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
Complement | 670 |
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