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HMS Centurion (1911) |
Type: |
Battleship |
Class: |
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Builder: |
Devonport Dockyard Plymouth, England |
Pennant Number: |
N/A |
Ordered: |
1910 |
Launched: |
November 18, 1911 |
Keel Laid: |
January 16, 1911 |
Commissioned: |
May 22, 1913 |
Fate: |
Scuttled as breakwater on June 9, 1944 at Normandy, France. Scrapped in 1945.
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Dimensions, machinery and performance |
Length: |
597' 4" |
Engines: |
4 Parsons steam turbines |
Beam: |
88' 9" |
Boilers: |
18 Babcock & Wilcox (coal / oil fired) |
Draft: |
28' 5" (max full) |
Shafts: |
4 |
Displacement: |
23,300 std. / 25,700 full |
SHP: |
27,000 |
Speed: |
21 knots |
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Crew: |
850 |
Range: |
4,060 NM @ 18.1 knots |
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Armament |
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Number Carried
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Type
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Arrangement |
Maximum Range / Ceiling |
10 |
13.5"/45 (343mm) Mk V(H) |
5 twin turrets |
23,800 yards @ 20° (13.5 miles) with a 1,250 lb. armor piercing shell |
12 (a) |
4"/50 (102mm) BL Mk VII |
single mounts |
11,600 yards @ 15° (6.5 miles) with a 31 lb. HE shell |
3 (b) |
21" (533mm) torpedo tubes |
2 broadside 1 stern all submerged |
4,500 yards @ 45 knots (2.5 miles) 10,750 yards @ 31 knots (6.1 miles) 515 lb. TNT warhead |
Armament notes: |
(a) In 1917 four additional 4" guns were added.
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(b) The stern tube was removed in 1916. |
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In 1917 two 3" AA guns were added but later replaced with 4" guns. |
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Centurion had all armament removed in 1937 in preparation for sinking as a blockship. In 1941 she had two 40mm AA and eight 20mm AA installed and this was increased in May 1942 to four 40mm and seventeen 20mm. |
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Builder's Data |
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Page published Jan. 22, 2007 |