St. Vincent Class Battleships Class Overview


Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Portsmouth Dockyard
Portsmouth, England

Sept. 10, 1908
May 3, 1909
Fate
Sold for scrap Dec. 1, 1921 to Stanlee Shipbreaking & Salvage Company Ltd.,
Dover, England. Towed to Dover in Mar. 1922.
Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Devonport Dockyard
Plymouth, England

Nov. 7, 1908
Apr. 19, 1910
Fate
Sold to Cashmore Dec. 1922 and scrapped.
Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Vickers, Sons & Maxim Ltd.
Barrow-in-Furness, England

Feb. 22, 1909
Mar. 1, 1910
Fate
Sunk by internal explosion July 9, 1917.

Location: Scapa Flow, Orkney Islands.
(58.51.400N - 03.06.405W)

Over 800 crewmen killed (estimates range from 805 to 843), 2 survivors.
(Three men survived the disaster, but one died of his wounds.)