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Fleet

Royal Navy

Ship Type

Battleship

Nickname

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Ship Class

Bellerophon

Grouping

4th Battle Squadron

Command

Grand Fleet

Builder's Yard

Yard 800, Armstrong Whitworth, Elswick

Budget Year

1906 Estimates

Construction Notes

£1,744,200

Date Laid Down

06.02.1907

Launch Date

07.11.1907

Completed date

19.06.1909

Commission date

29.05.1909

Year laid down

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Year launched

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Year completed

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Commission Year

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Pennant No

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Photo Details

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Related stories

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Sister ships

Bellerophon

Eventual Fate

Sold for scrap 1922

Jutland result

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Ready for action after dock repairs

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Commander

Captain Edward Hyde Parker (Flying the Flag of Rear-Admiral Alexander Ludovic Duff, C.B.)

Noteable Officers

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Crew complement

840

Officers

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Ratings

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Killed

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Wounded

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Prisoners

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Displacement full Load (tons)

22,000

Artefacts Data

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Ship's Model

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Length (ft)

490' pp, 560' o/a

Length (mtrs)

150 - 160

Beam (ft)

82' 6"

Beam (mtrs)

25.1

Draught (ft)

30" 11" (max)

Draught (mtrs)

9.42

Max. Speed (knots)

20.75 (21 kts in trials

Range (miles)

7,600 at 10 kts

Range (kilometres)

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Fuel

Max. load of 2,648 tons coal and 840 tons of fuel oil burner

Propulsion

4 Parsons team turbine engines heating 18 Babcock and Wilcox boilers driving 4 shafts. Rated at 23,000 shp

Armour Main Belt

11 to 5"

Deck Armour

3 to 1.5"

Turret Armour IN CM

12"

Conning Tower Armour

11"

Barbette Armour

11 to 5"

Weight of armour

5431

Armour / Displacement Ratio

.29205205420520541

Watertight compartments

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General Notes

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Fire Control Table

Dreyer Mk 1

Fire Control - Clock

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Primary Gun calibre

BL / 45 12" Mk X guns (300 mm)

No. Primary Turrets

5

Guns (No.barrels)

10

Primary gun layout

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Rounds per main gun

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Effective broadside guns

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Primary shell Weight (inches or cm)

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Primary Broadside Weight

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Secondary Gun Calibre

BL 4" Mk VII guns (100 mm)

Guns (No.barrels) 2

11

Rounds per secondary

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Other Armament

Two 3” (76 mm) AA guns, Four Single 47 mm (1.9”) 3-pdr guns, five .303” (7.7 mm) machine guns.

Elevation (degrees)

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Gunnery Range (yards)

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Gunnery Range (metres)

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Rate of Fire (rds per minute)

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Shells expended Main

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Mines dropped

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Shells expended Secondary

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Torpedoes fired

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Gunnery Notes

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Torpedo Type IN

18" Whitehead

No. tubes

3

Torpedo Type MM

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No. Mines

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Torpedo Notes

submerged

References & sources

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