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The Lord Nelson class was a class of two battleships built by the Royal Navy between 1905 and 1908. It was the last class of battleships to be designed before the "all-big-gun" Dreadnought revolutionized battleship construction.
Ships
Both ships of the class were launched in 1906 and served in the Mediterranean during World War I, where they were involved in attacks on Turkish forts and support of landings in the Dardanelles Campaign. In November 1918 both ships were part of the first British squadron to pass through the Dardanelles after the Armistice.
General characteristics
- Length: 443 feet 6 inches
- Beam: 79 feet 6 inches
- Draught: 30 feet
- Displacement 15,358 tons normal, 17,820 tons fully loaded
- Propulsion: 2 shafts, 16,750 ihp
- Speed: 18 knots
- Armament: four 12-inch guns, ten 9.2-inch guns, twenty-four 12-lb guns, two 3-lb guns, five 18-inch torpedo tubes
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