Battleship histories. Royal naval
battleship HMS Collingwood. Battleship
website dedicated to the history of HMS Collingwood from its launch to its participation in major wars.
Also a
notice board for Naval Enthusiasts and Historians as well as Descendants of
crew of HMS Collingwood.
Displacement: 19,560 tons. Speed: 21 knots.
Armament: Ten 12 inch guns in pairs, twenty 4 inch quick firing guns, four
3pdr guns, three 18 inch torpedo tubes. Compliment:
718.
HMS COLLINGWOOD. Built at Devonport
Dockyard Plymouth, and launched on the 7th November 1908 and
commissioned into the Royal Navy on the 19th march 1910. HMS
Collingwood serviced at the Battle
of Jutland during world war One and after the
war became a Gunnery training ship from October 1919 and from
September 1921 served with the training ship HMS Colossus. HMS
Collingwood was finally removed from service and scrapped in 1923