HMS Canopus

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Arriving at La Valletta, Malta after finishing the Naval operations in the Dardanelles Campaign.


History
United Kingdom
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 & 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-inch (304.8 mm) 35-caliber Mk VIII guns
? 12 ? QF 6-inch (152.4 mm) 40-caliber guns
? 10 ? 12-pounder quick-firing guns
? 6 ? 3-pounder guns
? 4 ? 18-inch (450-mm) torpedo tubes (underwater)

Armour: ? Belt 6 inches (152 mm)
? Bulkheads 10-6 inches (254-152 mm)
? Barbettes 12 inches (305 mm)
? Gun houses 8 inches (203 mm)
? Casemates 6 inches (152 mm)
? Conning tower 12 inches (305 mm)
? decks 2 inches-1 inch (51 mm-25.4 mm)