HMS DREADNOUGHT IN DOCK 21

HMS DREADNOUGHT A BRITISH BATTLESHIP 1906

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

A CLOSE UP VEIW OF THE BRIDGE AREA

DETAIL OF MIDSHIPS BULKHEAD WORK RQD ---------- AFT VEIW WITH PARTS THAT NEED UPGRADE

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

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

PORT SIDE BASIC DETAIL WORKS SO FAR

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

STD VEIW OF WORK SO FAR

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Name: Dreadnought
Operators: Royal Navy
Preceded by: Lord Nelson class
Succeeded by: Bellerophon class

Cost: £1,783,883 (£195,651,683 inflation-adjusted to 2015)

Built: 1905–06
In service: 1906–19
In commission: 1906–19

Completed: 1
Scrapped: 1

United Kingdom
Name: HMS Dreadnought
Ordered: 1905
Builder: HM Dockyard, Portsmouth
Laid down: 2 October 1905
Launched: 10 February 1906
Commissioned: 2 December 1906
Decommissioned: February 1919
Fate: Scrapped, 1923

General characteristics (as completed)

Displacement:

18,120 long tons (18,410 t) (normal load)
20,730 long tons (21,060 t) (deep load)

Length: 527 ft (160.6 m)
Beam: 82 ft 1 in (25.0 m)
Draught: 29 ft 7.5 in (9.0 m) (deep load)

Installed power:

23,000 shp (17,000 kW)
18 Babcock & Wilcox water-tube boilers

Propulsion:

4 shafts
Parsons direct-drive steam turbines

Speed: 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph)

Range: 6,620 nautical miles (12,260 km; 7,620 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)

Complement: 700–810

Armament:

5 × twin BL 12-inch Mark X guns
27 × single 12-pdr 18 cwt Mark I guns
5 × 18-inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes

Armour:

Belt: 4–11 in (102–279 mm)
Deck: 0.75–3 in (19–76 mm)
Barbettes: 4–11 in (102–279 mm)
Turrets: 3–12 in (76–305 mm)
Conning tower: 11 in (279 mm)
Bulkheads: 8 in (203 mm)

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