HMS Goliath (1898)
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HMS Goliath ca. 1907, after the addition of fire control and wireless rig.
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| Name: | HMS Goliath |
| Namesake: | Goliath |
| Ordered: | 1896/97 Estimates |
| Builder: | Chatham Dockyard |
| Cost: | £920,806 |
| Laid down: | 4 January 1897 |
| Launched: | 23 March 1898 |
| Commissioned: | 27 March 1900 |
| Nickname(s): | Golly |
| Fate: | Torpedoed and sunk, 12 May 1915 |
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| Class and type: | Canopus-class pre-dreadnought battleship |
| Displacement: | 12,950 long tons (13,160 t) |
| Length: | 390 ft (120 m) |
| Beam: | 74 ft (23 m) |
| Draught: | 25 ft (7.6 m) |
| Installed power: | 15,400 ihp (11,500 kW) |
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| Speed: | 18.25 kn (21.00 mph; 33.80 km/h) |
| Complement: | 680–750 |
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HMS Goliath was one of the six Canopus-class pre-dreadnought battleships built by the Royal Navy in the late 19th century. Commissioned in 1900, she served in the Far East on the China Station until 1905, at which time she joined the Mediterranean Fleet. In 1906, she was attached to the Channel Fleet. Having been mothballed prior to the outbreak of the First World War, she was returned to full commission.
Goliath took part in operations against German East Africa, participating in the blockade of the German light cruiser SMS Königsberg in the Rufiji River. From March 1915, she was part of the Dardanelles Campaign, and remained in support of the landings at Gallipoli in April. On 13 May 1915 Goliath was sunk in Morto Bay off Cape Helles by two torpedoes from the Turkish torpedo boat destroyer Muâvenet-i Millîye, which was manned by a combined German and Turkish crew, drowning 570 of her 700 crew members, including her captain, Thomas Lawrie Shelford.
HMS Goliath was laid down at Chatham Dockyard on 4 January 1897 and was launched on 23 March 1898. She was commissioned in March 1900.
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