Lord Nelson Class Battleships Class Overview

Dimensions, machinery and performance
Length:
443' 6"
Engines:
2 four cylinder vertically inverted triple
expansion
Beam:
79' 4"
Boilers:
15 Yarrow (coal fired)
Draft:
26' 9"
Shafts:
2
Displacement:
15,925 std / 17,863 full
SHP:
16,750
Speed:
18 knots (max on trials 18.5 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


Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
William Beardmore & Company
Dalmuir, Scotland
June 23, 1906
June 25, 1908
Fate
Sold Jan. 24, 1927 to J. Cashmore and scrapped in Newport, England.
Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Palmer's Shipbuilding & Iron Co. Ltd
Jarrow-on-Tyne, England
Sept. 4, 1906
Oct. 1908
Fate
Sold Nov. 1920 and scrapped in 1921.


Page revised Feb. 23, 2007