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HMS Glory |
Type: |
Battleship |
Class: |
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Builder: |
Cammell Laird Ltd. Birkenhead, England |
Pennant Number: |
N/A |
Ordered: |
N/A |
Launched: |
March 11, 1899 (a) |
Keel Laid: |
December 1, 1896 |
Commissioned: |
Oct. 1900 |
Fate: |
Sold Dec. 19, 1922 to Granton Shipbreaking Company and scrapped. |
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Notes: |
Glory was renamed Crescent in 1920 to free the name. |
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(a): |
Floated out of drydock rather than a traditional launch. |
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Dimensions, machinery and performance |
Length: |
418' |
Engines: |
2 Three cylinder vertical inverted triple expansion |
Beam: |
74' |
Boilers: |
20 Belleville (coal fired) |
Draft: |
26' 6" |
Shafts: |
2 |
Displacement: |
12,950 std. |
SHP: |
13,500 (design) |
Speed: |
18.25 knots (design) |
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Crew: |
750 |
Range: |
N/A |
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Armament |
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Number Carried
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Type
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Arrangement |
Maximum Range / Ceiling |
4 |
12"/35 (305mm) Mk VIII |
2 twin turrets |
26,000 @ 30° (14.7 miles) with 875 lb. armor piercing shell |
12 |
6"/40 (152mm) |
single mounts |
10,000 yards @ 15° with 100 lb. HE shell |
10 |
3"/40 (76mm) 12 pounder QF |
single mounts |
11,750 yards @ 40° AA ceiling 19,000' @ 70° |
6 |
1.85"/40 (47mm) 3 pounder QF |
single mounts |
7,900 yards @ 45° AA ceiling 3,600 (effective) |
4 |
18" (450mm) torpedo tubes |
submerged |
800 yards @ 26.5 knots 118 lb. wet gun cotton warhead |
Ship's Data |
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Page published Jan. 19, 2007 |