ERIN

Fleet

Royal Navy

Ship Type

Battleship

Nickname

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Ship Class

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Grouping

2nd Battle Squadron, 1st Division

Command

Ggrand Fleet

Builder's Yard

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Budget Year

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Construction Notes

Ex-Res Adiye built for Turkey and requisitioned August 1914

Date Laid Down

01.08.1911

Launch Date

03.09.1913

Completed date

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Commission date

01.08.1914

Year laid down

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Year launched

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Year completed

1914 ((Aug)

Commission Year

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Pennant No

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Photo Details

PUBLIC DOMAIN. Surgeon Oscar Parkes - SP 531, Imperial War Museum .HMS Erin underway in the Moray Firth , Scotland.

Related stories

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Sister ships

Scrapped by Cox and Danks in 1923

Eventual Fate

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Jutland result

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Ready for action after dock repairs

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Commander

Captain The Hon. Victor A. Stanley, M.V.O., A.D.C.

Noteable Officers

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Crew complement

1,070

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)

30,250

Artefacts Data

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Ship's Model

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Length (ft)

559' 6"

Length (mtrs)

170.54

Beam (ft)

91

Beam (mtrs)

27' 7"

Draught (ft)

28

Draught (mtrs)

8.75

Max. Speed (knots)

21

Range (miles)

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Range (kilometres)

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Fuel

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Propulsion

4 Parsons steam turbines, 15 Babcock and Wilcox boilers, 4 shafts. Rated at 26,500 shp.

Armour Main Belt

12" and 9" upper 343mm and 229mm

Deck Armour

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Turret Armour IN CM

4" - 11" 102mm- 279mm

Conning Tower Armour

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Barbette Armour

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Weight of armour

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Armour / Displacement Ratio

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Watertight compartments

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General Notes

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Fire Control Table

Dreyer Table Mk 1

Fire Control - Clock

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Primary Gun calibre

13.5" BL Mk VI guns

No. Primary Turrets

5

Guns (No.barrels)

10

Primary gun layout

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Rounds per main gun

80

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

6" (152.4 mm) BL

Guns (No.barrels) 2

16

Rounds per secondary

150

Other Armament

6 x 6 pds 2,2" (57mm) guns, 2 x 3" 20 cwt AA

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

21"

No. tubes

4

Torpedo Type MM

533

No. Mines

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Torpedo Notes

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References & sources

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