Rescuing sailors from the sinking Audacious | | Career |
 | | Ordered: | 1910 | | Laid down: | March 1911 | | Launched: | 14 September 1912 | | Commissioned: | August 1913 | | Fate: | Mined 27 October 1914 | | Struck: | | | General Characteristics | | Displacement: | 23,400 tons | | Length: | 598 feet | | Beam: | 89 feet | | Draught: | 28 feet | | Propulsion: | Turbine (Parsons) producing 31,000 shp, driving 4 screws | | Speed: | 21 knots | | Range: | | | Complement: | 900 men | | Armament: | 10 13.5-inch guns
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Three 21-inch torpedo tubes HMS Audacious (1912) sinking after hitting a mine This image was scanned from a public domain text by the Great War Primary Documents Archive and is made available by them for any purpose provided that they are credited and a link is given to the Photos of the Great War...
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| HMS Audacious was a King George V class battleship of the Royal Navy. The vessel did not survive its first conflict, being sunk by a mine off Northern Ireland. Two classes of battleship of the Royal Navy are known as the King George V class: King George V class (1911) of four battleships that served in World War I (King George V, Centurion, Audacious, and Ajax) King George V class (1939) of five battleships that served in World War...
The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the senior service of the British armed services being the oldest of its three branches. ...
Dieu et mon droit (motto) (French for God and my right)2 Northern Irelands location within the UK Main language English Other recognised languages Irish, Ulster Scots Capital and largest city Belfast First Minister Office suspended Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Peter Hain MP Area - Total Ranked 4th...
At the beginning of World War I Audacious was part of the Second Battle Squadron of the British Grand Fleet. On 27 October 1914 the Second Battle Squadron, consisting of the 'super-dreadnoughts' King George V, Ajax, Centurion, Audacious, Monarch, Thunderer and Orion, left port to conduct gunnery exercises. Combatants Allies: Serbia, Russia, France, Romania, Belgium, British Empire, United States, Italy, and others Central Powers: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire Casualties Military dead: 5 million Civilian deaths: 3 million Total of dead: 8 million Military dead: 4 million Civilian deaths: 3 million Total dead: 7 million The First...
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The first HMS King George V was a King George V-class dreadnought, with a displacement of 23,400 tonnes and an armament of 10 x 13. ...
HMS Ajax was a King George V-class battleship (one of four ships of the class), built at Scotts shipyard at Greenock on the River Clyde. ...
HMS Centurion was a battleship of the Royal Navy. ...
HMS Monarch was an Orion-class battleship of the Royal Navy. ...
HMS Thunderer was an Orion class battleship of the Royal Navy. ...
HMS Orion was a battleship of the Royal Navy, launched in 1910, the lead ship of her class and the first super-dreadnought. In World War I she served in the 2nd Battle Squadron of the Grand Fleet based at Scapa Flow and fought at the battle of Jutland, 31...
At around 08:45 Audacious ran upon a mine laid by the German auxiliary mine-layer Berlin, resulting in the flooding of several compartments. The ship tried to return to port, but an hour later water leaking through the bulkheads flooded the engine rooms, forcing them to be abandoned. This left Audacious without power and led to the evacuation of all non-essential crewmembers to the escorts and the nearby White Star Liner RMS Olympic. Throughout the afternoon Olympic and the cruiser HMS Liverpool attempted to take Audacious into tow, but the lines snapped time and again. Built for the White Star Line Company, RMS Olympic (or SS Olympic) was a sister ship to the ill-fated Titanic and Britannic. ...
The fifth HMS Liverpool of the Royal Navy was a 4800 ton light cruiser of the Bristol class. ...
At 18:00 the ship was abandoned by the remaining crew and capsized at 20:45, becoming the first British battleship to be lost in World War I and the only one without loss of life (although when the Audacious exploded upon capsizing, a piece of debris flew 800 yards and killed a member of the crew of another ship, the Liverpool). HMS Victory in 1884 given to the most powerfully gun-armed and most heavily armored classes of warships built between the 15th and 20th centuries. ...
The Royal Navy tried to keep the loss a secret, officially listing the ship as in service during the entire war, but this proved to be a futile attempt, due to the fact that many American passengers on the Olympic had witnessed and photographed the sinking.
A Royal Navy review board judged that a contributory factor in the loss was that Audacious was not at battle stations, with water-tight doors locked and damage control teams ready. Note that HMS Marlborough, of the subsequent (and fairly similar) Iron Duke class, was torpedoed at Jutland and for a time continued to steam at 17 knots. HMS Marlborough was an Iron Duke-class battleship of the Royal Navy, named in honour of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, and launched in 1912. ...
The Iron Duke class battleships of the Royal Navy were four battleships, Benbow, Emperor of India, Iron Duke, and Marlborough. ...
Combatants United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland German Empire Commanders Sir John Jellicoe, Sir David Beatty Reinhard Scheer, Franz von Hipper Strength 28 battleships, 9 battlecruisers, 8 armoured cruisers, 26 light cruisers, 78 destroyers 16 battleships, 5 battlecruisers, 6 pre-dreadnoughts, 11 light cruisers, 61 torpedo-boats Casualties 6...
See also Three ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Audacious. ...
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The list of shipwrecks in 1914 includes all ships sunk, floundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1914. ...
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