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The British Royal Navy built a series of pre-dreadnought battleships as part of a naval expansion programme that began with the Naval Defence Act 1889.These ships were characterised by a main battery of four heavy guns—typically 12-inch (305 mm) guns—in two twin mounts, a secondary armament that usually comprised 4.7-to-6-inch (120 to 150 mm) guns, and a high freeboard.
The heavy guns and forward barbette of Mikasa's main battery. Very few pre-dreadnoughts deviated from what became the classic arrangement of heavy weaponry: A main battery of four heavy guns mounted in two center-line gunhouses fore and aft (these could be either fully enclosed barbettes or true turrets but, regardless of type, were later to be universally referred to as 'turrets').
This list comprises the pre-dreadnought type battleships built for the Royal Navy, beginning with the Royal Sovereigns of 1889, commonly called the originators of the pre-dreadnought as a standardized type. And because I'm a Yank, I'd appreciate an extra eye to help me stamp out any bits of American English that might be present.
The guns had a muzzle velocity of 2,562 to 2,573 feet per second (781 to 784 m/s), and they were capable of penetrating 12 inches of Krupp armour at a range of 4,800 yards (4,400 m). At their maximum elevation, the guns had a range of 15,300 yards (14,000 m). [13] The guns had a rate of fire of one shot every eighty seconds. [14]
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While the introduction of the ironclad is clear-cut, the boundary between 'ironclad' and the later 'pre-dreadnought battleship' is less obvious, as the characteristics of the pre-dreadnought evolved. For the sake of this article, the Royal Sovereign -class are treated as the first pre-dreadnoughts on account of their high freeboard and mixed ...
HMS Duncan was the lead ship of the six-ship Duncan class of Royal Navy pre-dreadnought battleships.Built to counter a group of fast Russian battleships, Duncan and her sister ships were capable of steaming at 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph), making them the fastest battleships in the world.
HMS Majestic was a Majestic-class pre-dreadnought battleship of the Royal Navy.Commissioned in 1895, she was the largest pre-dreadnought launched at the time. She served with the Channel Fleet until 1904, following which she was assigned to the Atlantic Fleet.