HMS Victorious
Majestic-class
General characteristics
Displacement:	14,560–14890 tons (15730t–16060 tons full load)
Length:	413 ft (126 m)
Beam:	75 ft (23 m)
Draught:	27.5 ft (8.38 m)
Armament:	Four 12 inch (300 mm), twelve 6 inch (150 mm), sixteen 12 pounder, twelve 3 pounder, 2 light QF, 2 MG, five 18 inch (460 mm) torpedo tubes (1 above water, 4 underwater)
Protection:	Harvey armour. 9 inch (200 mm) side belt, 3 inch (80 mm) deck, 10 inch (250 mm) barbettes, 5 inch (100 mm) secondary turrets
Propulsion:	water tube boilers, triple expansion steam engines, 2 screws = 17 kt (trials 17.6 knots (32.6 km/h) – 18.7 knots (34.6 km/h))
Range:	?
Complement:	670

The Majestic class was a nine-ship class of pre-Dreadnought battleships, built under the Spencer Programme (named after the First Sea Lord, John Poyntz Spencer, 5th Earl Spencer). When Majestic was launched in 1895, at 421 ft (128 m) long and with a full load displacement of 16,000 tons, she was the largest battleship ever built. They were to be a benchmark for successor pre-Dreadnoughts. HMS Victorious (pre-dreadnought battleship). ... The third ship to be named HMS Victorious had the most quiet of careers. ... Image File history File links Naval_Ensign_of_the_United_Kingdom. ... A modern torpedo, historically called a locomotive torpedo, is a self-propelled projectile that (after being launched above or below the water surface) operates underwater and is designed to detonate on contact or in proximity to a target. ... Harvey armour was a type of steel armour developed in the early 1890s in which the front surfaces of the plates were case hardened. ... A ship class is a group of ships of a similar design. ... HMS Magnificent, a pre-dreadnought battleship launched in 1894 The term pre-dreadnought refers to the last type of battleship before HMS Dreadnought (1906). ... HMS Victory in 1884 Battleship was the name given to the most powerfully gun-armed and most heavily armored classes of warships built between the 15th and 20th centuries. ... The First Sea Lord is the professional head of the British Royal Navy. ... John Poyntz Spencer, 5th Earl Spencer (1835 - 1910) (known as the Red Earl because of his distinctive long red beard) was a British Liberal Party politician under and close friend of British prime minister William Ewart Gladstone. ...

The Majestic design was also adapted by the Imperial Japanese Navy for their own pre-Dreadnought class, the Shikishima class, as well as Mikasa, which was largely based on the Shikishimas. The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) (: 大日本帝國海軍 Shinjitai: 大日本帝国海軍 or 日本海軍 Nippon Kaigun) or sometimes referred to as the Combined Fleet was the Navy of Empire of Japan (Dai Nippon Teikoku) from 1869 until 1947, when it was dissolved following Japans constitutional renunciation of the use of force as a means of settling... Mikasa (三笠) is a pre-Dreadnought battleship, formerly of the Imperial Japanese Navy, launched in 1900. ...

The Majestics also boasted a new gun, the 12 inch (300 mm) Mk VIII, which was a significant improvement on the 13.5 inch (343 mm) gun, which had been fitted on the "Admiral" and Royal Sovereign classes. The class was also the last to have side by side funnels, with successor classes having funnels in a line. They were all effectively made obsolete by the introduction of Dreadnought. All surviving ships were scrapped by 1923. The British Royal Navys pre-dreadnought Admiral-class battleships of the 1880s was a followed the pattern of the Devastation class in having the main armament on centre-line mounts with the superstructure in between. ... The Royal Sovereign class was an eight-ship class of pre-Dreadnought battleships of the British Royal Navy. ... The sixth HMS Dreadnought of the British Royal Navy was the first battleship to have a uniform main battery, rather than having a secondary battery of smaller guns. ...

Ships of the class

• Caesar served in World War I. She took part in operations after WWI against the Bolsheviks, during the Russian Civil War in the Black Sea.
• Hannibal served as a troopship during WWI, having her 12 inch (300 mm) guns removed for the monitors Prince Eugene and Sir John Moore.
• Illustrious was initially used as a guard-ship during WWI. In 1916 she became an ammunition ship.
• Jupiter was a guard-ship at the Humber, on the outbreak of WWI. She was used as an ice-breaker at Archangel.
• Magnificent was used as a troopship and ammunition ship during WWI. Her main guns were removed for use in monitors.
• Majestic collided with her sister-ship Victorious in 1912. In WWI, she was initially used as an escort for Canadian troop convoys and was involved in the bombardment of Zeebrugge in 1915. She was sunk on 27 May 1915 by U-21 (which had sunk Triumph two days before) while stationed off Cape Helles, Turkey, during the Dardanelles Campaign, with the loss of forty of her crew.
• Mars was used as a guard-ship at the Humber on the outbreak of WWI. Like some of her sister-ships, Mars had her main armament removed for monitors of the Lord Clive class, with Mars subsequently becoming a troop transport. In this role, Mars helped in the evacuation of troops from Gallipoli. She was used as a depot ship for the rest of the war.
• Prince George collided with the armoured cruiser Shannon in 1909. During WWI, she took part in the Dardanelles Campaign.
• Victorious saw no active service during WWI. She was used as a dockyard repair ship for the duration of the war.

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