HMS Lord Nelson

Type:
Battleship
Class:
Lord Nelson (Class Overview)
Builder:
Palmer's Shipbuilding & Iron Co. Ltd.
Jarrow-on-Tyne, England
Pennant Number:
N/A
Ordered:
1904
Launched:
September 4, 1906
Keel Laid:
May 18, 1905
Commissioned:
October 1908
Fate:
Sold Nov. 1920 and scrapped in 1921.


Dimensions, machinery and performance

Length:
443' 6"
Engines:
2 four cylinder vertically inverted triple expansion
by Palmer's
Beam:
79' 4"
Boilers:
15 Babcock & Wilcox (coal fired)
Draft:
26' 9"
Shafts:
2
Displacement:
16,090 std / 17,820 full
SHP:
16,750
Speed:
18 knots (max on trials 18.7 knots)
Crew:
817
Range:
9,180 NM @ 10 knots


Armament As Built
Number Carried
Type
Arrangement
Maximum Range / Ceiling
4
12"/45 (305mm)
Mk X
2 twin turrets
20,435 yards @ 16° (11.6 miles)
with a 859 lb. armor piercing shell

10
9.2"/50 (234mm)
Mk VI
4 twin turrets
2 single turrets

16,200 yards @ 15° (9.2 miles)
with a 380 lb. armor piercing shell
24
3"/40 (76mm)
QF

single mounts
11,750 yards @ 40°
AA ceiling 19,000' @ 70°
5
18" (450mm)
torpedo tubes
4 broadside
1 stern
all submerged
800 yards @ 26.5 knots
118 lb. wet gun-cotton warhead



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