HMS Dominion (1903)
HMS Dominion
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| Name: | HMS Dominion |
| Namesake: | The Dominion of Canada |
| Ordered: | 1903 Estimates |
| Builder: | Vickers, Barrow |
| Cost: | £1,453,718 |
| Laid down: | 23 May 1902 |
| Launched: | 25 August 1903 |
| Completed: | July 1905 |
| Commissioned: | 15 August 1905 |
| Decommissioned: | 2 May 1918 |
| Nickname(s): | The King Edward VII-class battleships were known as "The Wobbly Eight" |
| Fate: | Sold for scrapping 9 May 1921 |
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| Class and type: | King Edward VII-class pre-dreadnought battleship |
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| Length: | 453 ft 8 in (138.28 m) |
| Beam: | 78 ft (24 m) |
| Draught: | 25 ft 6 in (7.77 m) |
| Installed power: | 18,000 ihp |
| Propulsion: | 16 coal-fired (with oil sprayers) Babcock & Wilcox water-tube boilers, two 4-cylinder vertical compound expansion steam engines, two screws |
| Speed: | 18.5 knots (34 km/h) |
| Range: | 2,000 nautical miles (3,704 km) at 18.5 knots (34 km/h); 5,270 nautical miles (9,760 km) at 10 knots (18.5 km/h) |
| Complement: | 777 |
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| Notes: | 2,164–2,238 tons coal maximum, 380 tons oil |
HMS Dominion was a King Edward VII-class battleship of the Royal Navy. Like all ships of the class (apart from the lead ship of the class, HMS King Edward VII) she was named after an important part of the British Empire, namely the Dominion of Canada. She has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name Dominion. Commissioned in 1905, she entered service with the Atlantic Fleet but ran aground in August 1906 in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. Repairs took nearly a year, and upon completion, she was assigned to the Home Fleet. Following a reorganisation of the fleet in 1912, she, along with her King Edward VII class sister ships formed the 3rd Battle Squadron, which served in the Mediterranean.
When World War I broke out, the 3rd Battle Squadron was assigned to the Grand Fleet, with Dominion conducting operations as part of the Northern Patrol. In 1916, the squadron was detached to the Nore Command, and was subsequently dissolved in March 1918. She was a parent ship for the raids on Zeebrugge and Ostend, and, decommissioned in May, ended the war as an accommodation ship. She was disposed of in 1919 and eventually scrapped in 1924.
HMS Dominion was ordered under the 1902 Naval Estimates. She was laid down at Vickers' yards at Barrow-in-Furness on 23 May 1902, her first keel plate placed by Lord Walter Kerr, First Sea Lord. She was launched on 25 August 1903, began trials in May 1905 and was completed in July 1905.
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