HMS Victoria (1887)

HMS Victoria by William Frederick Mitchell
History
United Kingdom
Name:	HMS Victoria
Builder:	Armstrong, Mitchell & Co. Elswick yard
Cost:	£845,000
Yard number:	490
Laid down:	13 June 1885
Launched:	9 April 1887
Commissioned:	March 1890
Nickname(s):	"The Slipper"; Victoria and her sister ship Sans Pareil together were known as "The Pair of Slippers"
Fate:	Accidentally rammed and sunk, 22 June 1893
General characteristics
Class and type:	Victoria-class battleship
Displacement:	11,020 long tons (11,200 t)
Length:	340 ft (100 m)
Beam:	70 ft (21 m)
Draught:	26 ft 9 in (8.15 m)
Installed power:	8,000 ihp (6,000 kW) (natural draught) 14,482 ihp (10,799 kW) (forced draught)
Propulsion:	2 × Humphreys & Tennant triple-expansion engines 2 × screws
Speed:	16 kn (18 mph; 30 km/h) (natural draught) 17.3 kn (19.9 mph; 32.0 km/h) (forced draught)
Complement:	430; as flagship: 583
Armament:	2 × BL 16.25-inch (413 mm) guns 1 × BL 10-inch (254 mm) gun 12 × BL 6-inch (152 mm) guns 12 × 6-pounder (57 mm) guns 6 × 14 in (360 mm) torpedo tubes
Armour:	Belt: 18 in (46 cm) Bulkheads: 16 in (41 cm) Turrets: 17 in (43 cm) Redoubt: 18 in (46 cm) Forward screen to battery: 6 in (15 cm) After screen to battery: 3 in (7.6 cm) Conning Tower: 14 in (36 cm) (sides), 2 in (5.1 cm) (top) Deck: 3 in (7.6 cm)
Service record
Part of:	Mediterranean Fleet
Commanders:	Captain Maurice Bourke

HMS Victoria was the lead ship in her class of two battleships of the Royal Navy. On 22 June 1893, she collided with HMS Camperdown near Tripoli, Lebanon, during manoeuvres and quickly sank, killing 358 crew members, including the commander of the British Mediterranean Fleet, Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon. One of the survivors was executive officer of Victoria, John Jellicoe, later commander-in-chief of the British Grand Fleet at the Battle of Jutland.

Victoria was constructed at a time of innovation and rapid development in ship design. Her name was originally to be Renown, but this was changed to Victoria while still under construction to celebrate Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, which took place the year the ship was launched. Her arrival was accompanied by considerable publicity. She was the largest, fastest and most powerful ironclad afloat, with the thickest armour and the heaviest guns.

She was the first battleship to be propelled by triple-expansion steam engines. These were constructed by Humphrys, Tennant and Company of Deptford and had cylinders of diameters 43 in (1,100 mm), 62 in (1,600 mm) and 96 in (2,400 mm) with stroke of 4 ft 3 in (1.30 m). They produced 12,000 ihp (8,900 kW) under forced draught, or 7,500 ihp (5,600 kW) under open draught. She was also the first Royal Navy ship to be equipped with a steam turbine which was used to run a dynamo.

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