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Encyclopedia > HMS Swiftsure (1870)

The HMS Swiftsure, launched 1903, was the lead ship of her class of pre-Dreadnought battleships. She served in the Mediterranean in World War I and was broken up in 1920. HMS Magnificent, a pre-dreadnought battleship launched in 1894 The term pre-dreadnought refers to the last type of battleship before HMS Dreadnought (1906). ... The Mediterranean Sea is an intercontinental sea positioned between Europe to the north, Africa to the south and Asia to the east, covering an approximate area of 2. ... Combatants Allies: • Serbia, • Russia, • France, • Romania, • Belgium, • British Empire and Dominions, • United States, • Italy, • ...and others Central Powers: • Germany, • Austria-Hungary, • Ottoman Empire, • Bulgaria Casualties 5 million military, 3 million civilian (full list) 3 million military, 3 million civilian (full list) World War I, also known as the First World...


See HMS Swiftsure for other ships of the same name. The Royal Navy has had ships named HMS Swiftsure since 1573, including: Swiftsure, launched in 1804, was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line which served at the Battle of Trafalgar and was sold in 1845. ...


HMS Swiftsure Statistics

  • Class: Swiftsure - 2 ships of 1904
  • Displacement: 11,800 tons
  • Dimensions: 458 (wl) 470 (oa) x 71 x 24.5 ft.
  • Machinery: Triple expansion (4 cyl.) 2 screws, S.H.P. 14,000 = 20 knots
  • Armor: Main belt 7 in. (amidships), 3 in. (ends), deck 3 in., turrets 10 in.
  • Armament: 4-10 in. (2x2), 14-7.5 in.(14x1), 14-14 pdr. (14x1); 2-18 in. T.T.
  • Complement: 700
  • Builder: Armstrong Whitworth, Elswick
  • Laid Down: Mar 1902
  • Launched: Jan 1903
  • Completed: 1904

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Swiftsure class battleship (1870) at AllExperts (425 words)
The Swiftsure class battleships of the late Victorian era were broadside ironclads designed and built specifically for service as Flagships on the Pacific station.
In appearance the two ships of the class, HMS Swiftsure and HMS Triumph, were very similar to HMS Audacious; under water their hulls were very similar to that of HMS Defence.
For the Swiftsure class, however, a reversion was made to copper sheathing, as in the Pacific there were no docking facilities whatsoever - until the completion of the dockyard at Esquimault in 1886 - and the sheathing applied on commissioning had to serve for the whole commission.
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In 1870, the French writer, Jules Verne, published the science fiction classic 20,000 Leagues under the Sea, which concerns the adventures of a maverick inventor in Nautilus, a submarine more advanced than any that existed at that time.
The first example was the British HMS M2, followed by the French Surcouf, and numerous aircraft-carrying submarines in the Imperial Japanese Navy.
The sinking of the antiquated cruiser ARA General Belgrano by HMS Conqueror was the first sinking by a nuclear-powered submarine in wartime.
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