HMS Albion (1898)
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| Name: | HMS Albion |
| Ordered: | 1896 Programme |
| Builder: | Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Co. Ltd, Leamouth, London |
| Laid down: | 3 December 1896 |
| Launched: | 21 June 1898 |
| Completed: | June 1901 |
| Commissioned: | 25 June 1901 |
| Decommissioned: | August 1919 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrapping 11 December 1919 |
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| Class and type: | Canopus-class pre-dreadnought battleship |
| Displacement: | 12,950 tons |
| Length: | 431 ft (131 m) |
| Beam: | 74 ft (23 m) |
| Draught: | 26 ft (7.9 m) |
| Propulsion: | 2 shafts, water tube boilers, vertical triple expansion steam engines, 15,400 ihp |
| Speed: | 18.25 knots (33.80 km/h) |
| Complement: | 750 |
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HMS Albion was a British Canopus-class predreadnought battleship. Commissioned into the Royal Navy in 1901, she served on the China Station until 1905. She was then employed as part of the Channel Fleet until 1907, at which time she began service with the Atlantic Fleet. Following the outbreak of World War I, she saw action in operations against German Southwest Africa in 1914 and also served in the Dardanelles campaign against the Turks, supporting the landings at Gallipoli. She remained in the Mediterranean until 1916, and then returned to the United Kingdom for service as a guard ship for the remainder of the war. She was scrapped in 1920.
HMS Albion was laid down by Thames Iron Works at Leamouth, London on 3 December 1896. Tragedy struck when she was launched on 21 June 1898; after the Duchess of York christened her, a wave created by Albion's entry into the water caused a stage from which 200 people were watching to collapse into a side creek, and 34 people, mostly women and children, drowned in one of the worst peacetime disasters in Thames history. This was probably one of the first ever ship launchings to be filmed.Albion's completion then was delayed by late delivery of her machinery. She finally began trials late in 1900, during which she was further delayed by machinery and gun defects, and she was not finally completed until June 1901.
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