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HMS Trafalgar - Battleship
Country : UK Launched : 20th September 1887
S Trafalgar, steel armoured battleship of the Hamilton Programme. Launched 20th September 1887, at Portsmouth Dockyard and completed for sea in 1890. HMS Trafalgar cost about £900,000 to build and was modernised internally in 1905. She went into reserve fleet at Devonport from March 1907-09 and served as a turret and torpedo drill ship and then joined the 4th Division of Home Fleet, finally scrapped 9th April 1911.
Displacement: 11,940. Horse power: 12,000. Length: 345ft. Beam: 73ft. Draught: 27' 6". Speed 16.7 knots. Armament: four 67 ton guns, two armoured turrets, partial belt of armour 20" thick.
Sold 9th May 1911.
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