Of the St. Vincent-class. Her building at the Devonport dockyard was ordered on 26 October 1907, laid down on 3 February 1908, launched on 7 November, commissioned on 3 May two years later, 1919 reserve and temporarily gunnery training ship and finally sold to be broken up on 12 December 1921 which was done a year later. With a displacement of 19.250 tons were her dimensions 163 x 26 x 8,2 metres or 536 x 84 x 26.8 feet. The four shaft Parsons turbines supplied 24.500 shp allowing a speed of 21 knots. The armour consisted of a 10” thick belt, 8: thick bulkheads, a 3” thick deck while the turrets and the barbettes were protected by respectively 11” and 9” thick armour. The main armament consisted of 5x2-3,048cm/12” guns, the second armament consisted of 20-10,16cm/4” guns and further more 3x1-18” torpedo tubes. In the First World War was her second armament lightly altered.
The Dutch newspaper
Leeuwarder Courant dated 3 December 1908 reported that she was with her 19.250 tons the largest British battleship when she was launched. She was the last battleship to be built according the fleet program of lord Selborne of 1904.
The Dutch newspaper
De Sumatra Post dated 17 February 1911 reported that when the British fleet arrived in Ferrol, Spain she was grounded with as result that 36 armour plates were pressed.
