HMS CANOPUS IN DOCK 17

HMS CANOPUS A BRITISH BATTLESHIP 1897

FWD PORT QTR VEIW -------- AFT PORT QTR VEIW

A CLOSE UP VEIW OF THE BRIDGE AREA

DETAIL OF MIDSHIPS WITH MUCH WORK RQD ---------- AFT VEIW WITH A LOT OF UPGRADE NEEDED

OVERHEAD VEIW OF BASIC BOW DETAILS ( MUCH TO BE UPGRADED )

BOW OVERHEAD VEIW --------- STERN OVERHEAD VEIW

PORT SIDE BASIC DETAIL WORKS SO FAR WITH LOTS MORE TO BE ADDED

BOW VEIW ----------- STERN VEIW

STD VEIW OF WORK SO FAR

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Name: HMS Canopus
Namesake: Canopus, Egypt
Ordered: 1896 Programme
Builder: Portsmouth Dockyard
Cost: £921,316[1]
Laid down: 4 January 1897
Launched: 12 October 1897
Completed: 5 December 1899
Commissioned: 5 December 1899
Decommissioned: April 1919
Fate: Sold for scrapping 18 February 1920

General characteristics

Class and type: Canopus-class pre-dreadnought battleship
Displacement: 12,950 tons
Length: 431 ft (131.4 m)
Beam: 74 ft (22.6 m)
Draught: 26 ft (7.9 m)

Propulsion: 2 shafts, water tube boilers, vertical triple expansion steam engines, 15,400 ihp (11,500 kW)

Speed: 18 knots (33 km/h)

Complement: 750

Armament:

2 × 2 BL 12 in (305 mm) 35-caliber Mk VIII guns
12 × QF 6 in (152 mm) 40-caliber guns
10 × 12-pounder quick-firing guns
6 × 3-pounder guns
4 × 18 in (460 mm) torpedo tubes (underwater)

Armour:

Belt 6 in (152 mm)
Bulkheads 10–6 in (250–150 mm)
Barbettes 12 in (305 mm)
Gun houses 8 in (200 mm)
Casemates 6 in (152 mm)
Conning tower 12 in (305 mm)
Decks 2–1 in (51–25 mm)

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