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Revision as of 17:10, 12 September 2009

H.M.S. Cæsar
Career Details
Pendant Number: P.10 (April, 1918)
Builder: Portsmouth Royal Dockyard
Ordered: 1893
Laid down: 25 March, 1895
Launched: 2 September, 1896
Commissioned: 13 January, 1898
Sold: 8 November, 1921
Fate: Scrapped in Germany
General Characteristics
Displacement: 14,560 - 14,890 tons (normal)
15,730 - 16,060 tons (fully loaded)
Length: 390 feet
Beam: 75 feet
Draught: 26 feet 4 inches - 27 feet 6 inches
Propulsion: 2 Shaft Triple Expansion, 4,000 shp. 4 Yarrow boilers
Top Speed: 18.7 knots
Range: 4,700 miles at 10 knots
Complement: 673
Armament:
  • 4 × BL 12"/35 Mark VIII guns in twin BIII (Whitworth) mountings
  • 2 × BL 9.2"/50 Elswick Pattern 'E' guns in single Mark IX mountings
  • 12 × BL 6"/40 Mark XVIII guns in single Mark IV mountings

By the First World War, Cæsar was allegedly capable of only nine knots maximum speed.[1]

Footnotes

  1. Transcript of interview with Paymaster Rear-Admiral Keith Macleod Lawder in possession of the University of Leeds Library. p. 3.

Bibliography

  • Dittmar, F.J.; Colledge, J.J. (1972). British Warships 1914–1919. London: Ian Allan.
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  • Preston, Antony (1972). Battleships of World War I. New York, NY: Galahad Books. ISBN 0883653001.

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