HMS Centurion (1892)
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| Name: | HMS Centurion |
| Builder: | Portsmouth Dockyard |
| Laid down: | 30 March 1890 |
| Launched: | 3 August 1892 |
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| Commissioned: | 14 February 1894 |
| Decommissioned: | 1 April 1909 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrapping 12 July 1910 |
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| Class and type: | Centurion-class battleship |
| Displacement: | 10,500 tons |
| Length: | 360 ft (110 m) p/p |
| Beam: | 70 ft (21 m) |
| Draught: | 25 ft 6 in (7.77 m) |
| Propulsion: | 2 shaft Greenock Foundry Triple Expansion, 9,000 ihp (6,700 kW) |
| Speed: | 17 knots (31 km/h) |
| Complement: | 620 |
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HMS Centurion was a predreadnought second-class battleship of the Royal Navy. She was part of the two-ship Centurion class, designed for long-range patrolling of the United Kingdom's far-flung empire. She entered service with the Royal Navy in 1894, and was assigned to the China Station as its flagship. She supported Allied operations during the Boxer Rebellion and, apart from a period of refitting and rearming at Portsmouth from 1901 to 1903, remained in the Far East until 1905. Returning to England, she was part of the Home Fleet until 1909, at which time, outclassed by the dreadnought class of ships which began appearing from 1906, she was decommissioned and put up for sale for scrap.
HMS Centurion was laid down on 30 March 1890, launched on 3 August 1892, and completed for trials in September 1893. She commenced trials on 19 September 1893 and completed them in February 1894.
She displaced 10,500 tons, was 360 feet (110 m) in length and carried a complement of 620 officers and men. Her twin engines produced 13,000 ihp.
She was armed with four 10-inch (250 mm) guns in two barbettes, had a 6-inch (150 mm) secondary armament and three torpedo tubes. She was protected by a 12-inch (300 mm) belt of compound armour, closed with 8-inch (200 mm) bulkheads. She stored 1,125 tons of coal, giving her a range of 6,000 nautical miles (11,000 km) at 10 knots (19 km/h).
HMS Centurion commissioned at Portsmouth on 14 February 1894 for service on the China Station. She departed the United Kingdom on 2 March 1894, arriving at Port Said, Egypt, on 15 March 1894 and at Singapore on 11 April 1894. At Singapore, she rendezvoused with armoured cruiser HMS Imperieuse and relieved her as flagship of the China Station. She then proceeded to Hong Kong, arriving there on 21 April 1894.
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