HMS Iron Duke (1912)
Service
- as HMS Iron DukeMarch 1914 — March 19462,193 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Iron Duke
- Pennant / hull number
- 1912
- Namesake
- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
- Builder
- Portsmouth Dockyard
- Laid down
- 12 January 1912
- Launched
- 12 October 1912
- Commissioned
- March 1914
- Fate
- Sold for scrap, March 1946 (1946)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 25,000 long tons (25,401 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 29,560 long tons (30,034 t)
- Length
- 189.59 m (622 ft) OA
- Beam
- 27.43 m (90 ft)
- Draught
- 8.84 m (29 ft)
- Speed
- 21.3 knots (39.4 km/h, 24.5 mph)
- Range
- 7,800 nmi (14,446 km)
- Complement
- 995
- Main gun
- 343 mm (13.5 in)
HMS Iron Duke was a Iron Duke-class battleship built for the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number 1912. The ship was named after Arthur Wellesley. Portsmouth Dockyard laid her keel on 12 January 1912. She entered service in March 1914, having been launched on 12 October 1912.
She was the only ship of her class. The class followed the King George V-class battleship (1911) and was succeeded by the Queen Elizabeth-class battleship.
Displacement was 25,000 long tons standard and 29,560 long tons at full load. She measured 189.6 m (622 ft) long with a beam of 27.4 m (90 ft). Her designed speed was 21.2 knots, and she carried a complement of 995. Her main battery was of 343 mm (13.5 in) calibre.
Her machinery developed 29,000 shp.
She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap in March 1946.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 4 × Parsons turbines
- 4 × screw propellers
- Power
- 18 × Babcock & Wilcox boilers
- 29000 shp
- Armament
- 10 × BL 13.5 in/45 cal Mk V guns
- 12 × 6 in/45 cal Mk VII guns
- 2 × QF 3 in 20 cwt AA guns
- 4 × 3-pounder (47 mm) guns
- 4 × 21 inch (533 mm) submerged beam torpedo tubes
- Armour
- Belt: 12 in
- Deck: 2.5 in
- Barbettes: 10 in
- Turrets: 11 in
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Iron Duke (1912) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Stephen Cribb — (1914) Journal of the United States Artillery , 41, Coast Artillery School , Fort Monroe, p. 256 (Frontispiece) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons