HMS Majestic

Type:
Battleship
Class:
Builder:
Portsmouth Dockyard
Portsmouth, England
Pennant Number:
N/A
Ordered:
N/A
Launched:
January 31, 1895
Keel Laid:
February 1894
Commissioned:
December 1895
Fate:
Sunk (torpedo) May 27, 1915 by SMS U-21 (Kapitänleutnant Otto Hersing).

Location: Aegean Sea west of Cape Helles, Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey.
(40.02N-26.10E)

46 crewmen lost.
(Roll of Honour)


Dimensions, machinery and performance

Length:
413'
Engines:
2 three cylinder vertically inverted triple expansion
Beam:
75'
Boilers:
8 cylindrical (coal fired) 4 furnaces each
Draft:
30' max
Shafts:
2
Displacement:
14,900 std.
SHP:
10,000
Speed:
16.5 knots
Crew:
757
Range:
N/A


Armament
Number Carried
Type
Arrangement
Maximum Range / Ceiling
4
12'/35 (305mm)
Mk VIII

2 twin turrets
2,6000 yards @ 30° (14.7 miles)
with 875 lb. armor piercing shell
12
6"/40 (152mm)
single mounts
10,000 yards @ 15°
with 100 lb. HE shell

16
3"/40 (76mm)
12 pounder QF

single mounts
11,750 yards @ 40°
AA ceiling 19,000' @ 70°
12
1.85"/40 (47mm)
3 pounder QF

single mounts
7,900 yards @ 45°
AA ceiling 3,600 (effective)
5
18" (450mm)
torpedo tubes
4 submerged
1 above (stern)
800 yards @ 26.5 knots
118 lb. wet gun cotton warhead


Builder's Data
Page published Mar. 10, 2007