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HMS Bulwark Laid Down : 20th March 1899 Launched : 18th October 1899 Completed : 11th March 1902 Type : Battleship Class : Formidable Builder : Devonport Country : UK Pennants : Fate : Exploded 26th November 1914. |
| Royal Navy battleship HMS Bulwark was commissioned at Devonport, Plymouth on 18th March 1907. She was intended to become the flagship for the Mediterranean Fleet but due to a long refit she became the flagship to the Home Fleet instead. In October 1907 she became grounded and received some damage requiring repairs. In August 1908, she joined the Channel Fleet and then Home Fleet, reduced to the Reserve in March 1910 but was recommissioned in 1912 to join the 5th Battle Squadron. From the outbreak of World War I she carried out Channel patrol duty and on the 26th November 1914 while loading ammunition at Sheerness, she was destroyed by a huge explosion, probably caused by black powder charges being mishandled, only 12 men survived. Armament: four 12 inch guns in pairs, twelve 6 inch guns singles, sixteen 12 pdr guns, two 12 pdr guns, six 3 pdr guns, two maxims and four torpedo tubes. Length: 400ft Displacement: 15,000 tons. Speed: 18 knots. Complement: 750 (789 as flagship). |
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27th June 1898 - Ordered 20th March 1899 - Laid down at Devonport Dockyard 18th October 1899 - Launched 18th March 1902 - Commissioned for dervice with the Mediterranean Fleet 1st May 1902 - Assumed Flagship of the Mediterranean Fleet December 1902 - Mediterranean Fleet 1903 - Mediterranean and Red Sea Fleet 5th August 1903 - On Fleet Maneouvres 14th September 1903 - Flagship of Admiral Sir Compton Domvile 14th September 1903 - Anchored off Rosas 5th October 1903 - Commenced Fleet Maneouvres 13th October 1903 - Flagship of Admiral Sir C.E. Domvile 13th October 1903 - Captain F.T. Hamilton in Command 13th October 1903 - Sailed Malta for Corfu 1904 - Mediterranean and Red Sea Fleet 29th October 1904 - Arrived Malta from Corfu 29th October 1904 - Flagship of Sir Compton Domvile 1905 - Mediterranean Fleet 1905 - Commenced refit at Malta 1906 - Completed refit at Malta 1906 - Mediterranean Fleet June 1906 - Flag of Admiral Lord Beresford June 1906 - Mediterranean Fleet 1907 - Mediterranean Fleet 1907 - Commenced refit at Chatham Dockyard 11th February 1907 - Paid off at Plymouth 12th February 1907 - Recommissioned as Flagship of Rear Admiral, Nore Division, Home Fleet, at the Nore 3rd August 1907 - Fleet review Spithead 6th August 1907 - On Home Fleet Exercises 26th October 1907 - Grounded near Lemon Light in the North Sea 27th October 1907 - Arrived Sheerness 27th October 1907 - Flagship of Rear Admiral F. Finnis 27th October 1907 - Capt B.M. Chambers in Command 1908 - Completed refit at Chatham Dockyard 3rd October 1908 - Joined the Channel Fleet 1909 - Channel Fleet 1909 - Commenced refit April 1909 - 1st Battle Squadron, 1st Division, Home Fleet 12th June 1909 - Fleet Review at Spithead 2nd August 1909 - Anchored at Spithead 1st March 1910 - Commissioned into the reserve at Devonport 1st March 1910 - Assumed Flagship, Vice Admiral, 3rd and 4th Divisions, Home Fleet, at the Nore 27th July 1910 - Arrived back at Torquay after Naval Review 27th July 1910 - Sailed Torquay for Naval Review 23rd June 1911 - At Spithead for Fleet Review September 1911 - Commenced refit at Chatham Dockyard May 1912 - Grounded twice on Barrow Deep off the Nore during refit trials June 1912 - Completed refit at Chatham Dockyard June 1912 - Recommissioned at Chatham and joined the 5th Battle Squadron 9th July 1912 - Spithead Review 25th February 1913 - Sailed Portsmouth for exercises in the Irish Sea 28th February 1913 - Arrived Bantry Bay 4th March 1913 - Sailed Bantry Bay 6th March 1913 - Arrived Bantry Bay 7th March 1913 - Sailed Bantry Bay 17th March 1913 - Arrived Portsmouth 8th August 1914 - 5th Battle Squadron in Home Waters 26th November 1914 - Destroyed by an internal explosion whilst moored at Sheerness 26th November 1914 - Blown Up | |||
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