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| Career
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| Ordered:
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| Laid down:
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| Launched:
| 10 December 1904
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| Commissioned:
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| Decommissioned:
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| Fate:
| Torpedoed and sunk, 9th November 1918
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| Struck:
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| General Characteristics
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| Displacement:
| 16,350 tons
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| Length:
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| Armour:
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| Armament:
| 4-12in (2x2), 4-9.2in, 10-6in (5x2), 14-12pdr, 14-3pdr, 2 maxim MG, 5-?in torpedo tubes
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| Propulsion:
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| Speed:
| 18 knots
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| Range:
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| Complement:
| 777
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The sixth HMS Britannia of the British Royal Navy was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the King Edward VII class, launched in 1904. She became the last Royal Navy vessel to be sunk during World War I when she was torpedoed off Cape Trafalgar by UB 50 on 9th November 1918, only two days before the Armistice was signed.
For other ships of this name see HMS Britannia
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