Swiftsure Class Battleships Class Overview

Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Armstrong Elswick Works Ltd.
Newcastle-on-Tyne, England

Jan. 13, 1903
June 1904
Fate
Sold June 18, 1920 to Stanlee Shipbreaking and Salvage Company,
Dover, England and scrapped.
Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Vickers Ltd.
Barrow-in-Furness, England

Jan. 15, 1903
June 1904
Fate
Sunk May 25, 1915 by U-21 (torpedo).

Location: Aegean Sea off Cape Helles, Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey.

55 crewmen killed, 627 survivors.


Page published Dec. 7, 2009