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HMS Ramillies Laid Down : 11th August 1890 Launched : 1st March 1892 Completed : 17th October 1893 Type : Battleship Class : Royal Sovereign Builder : Thomson Country : UK Pennants : Fate : Sold at. auction for scrap on 7 October 1913; the buyer, George Cohen, of Swansea, paid £42,300 for her. She was resold to an Italian company, who in November of that year, towed her to Italy to be broken up |
HMS Ramillies, of the Royal Sovereign Class Battleship of the Royal Navy. Built by J and G Thomson at Clydebank and launched 1st March 1892. HMS Ramillies Cost just over £900,000 to complete. Served the last years in Home waters before being scrapped 7th October 1913. Displacement: 14,150 tons. Horse power: 13,000. Beam: 75ft. Draught: 27' 6". Armament: four 67 ton guns in armoured barbettes. Armour: partial armour of 18 inches thick. Speed:17.5 knots. |
Ramillies was built by J. & G. Thompson, of Clydebank, at a cost of £902,600, plus £78,295 for guns. She was laid down on 11 August 1890, launched on 1 March 1892 and completed the following October. She had been constructed at such a small incline that it took nearly an hour and a half to travel down the slipway and into the water; most of the crowd that had gathered dissipated in the meantime. Ramillies was commissioned at Portsmouth on 17 October 1893 as the Flagship of the Mediterranean Fleet. She departed on 28 October and arrived at Malta on 8 November to relieve Sans Pareil as acting flagship. Francis C. B. Bridgeman-Simpson was appointed Captain of Ramillies on the day of her commission; the commander of the Mediterranean Fleet at the time was Admiral Sir Michael Culme-Seymour. On 9 December 1896, Ramillies was recommissioned at Malta for further service in the Mediterranean Fleet. In July 1899, she became a private ship in the fleet, relieved as flagship by battleship HMS Renown, but the following January, she became the flagship of Rear Admiral Lord Charles Beresford, second-in-command of the Mediterranean Fleet. In October 1902, she was once again relieved as flagship, this time by HMS Venerable. In May 1902, Ramillies was at Palermo to attend festivities in connection with the opening of an agricultural exhibition by King Victor Emmanuel; the King and the Italian Minister of Marine paid her a visit when she arrived in Rome later in the month. She took part in combined manoeuvres off the coast of Portugal in August 1903, but that month she was paid off from Mediterranean service and transferred to the Portsmouth Reserve while she was refitted. Her refit complete, she was commissioned into the reserve at Chatham on 30 January 1905. That April, Ramillies transferred her crew to battleship HMS London and was recommissioned with a new crew into the Sheerness-Chatham Reserve Division. On 30 January 1906, she transferred her crew to battleship HMS Albemarle and recommissioned with yet another crew for service in the Chatham Reserve. That June, she participated in combined manoeuvres of the Atlantic Fleet, Channel Fleet, and Reserve Fleet, but in the process collided with HMS Resolution, suffering stern damage. As a result, her propellers were disabled. That November, her crew was transferred once more to the battleship HMS Africa.[6] The following March, Ramillies was recommissioned at Devonport with a reduced crew into the Special Service Division of the Home Fleet. In October 1910, she became Parent Ship in the Home Fleet's 4th Division. Her sister ship HMS Royal Oak relieved her of her Parent ship duties in June 1911 and she placed on the material reserve at Devonport during that August. She was stripped and laid up ready for disposal in July 1913, before being auctioned off for scrap on 7 October 1913; the buyer, George Cohen, of Swansea, paid £42,300 for her. She was resold to an Italian company, who in November of that year, towed her to Italy to be broken up |
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HMS Ramillies - Flagship of the Mediterranean Squadron | HMS Ramillies. | HMS Ramillies, 1893. | HMS Ramillies |
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