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Temeraire, 1907
Type: Battleship ; Armament See notes
Launched : 24 Aug 1907 ; Disposal date or year : 7 Dec 1921
Displacement: Normal displacement 18600 tons (about 22000 full load). tons
Complement: 733 to 793.
Machinery notes: Parsons turbine. 4 screws. Details as Dreadnought. Boilers: 18 Babcock or Yarrow. Designed H.P. 23,000 = 20.75 kts. Coal: normal, 900 tons ; maximum, 2648 tons; 842 tons oil + 170 tons patent fuel. ; Speed ; 24,619 = 21 knots ;
Notes:

30 Sep 1913 Recommissioned at Devonport.

Oct 1918 is reported to have arrived at Mudros some days after the Superb - see p. 603 www.naval-review.org/issues/1920-4.pdf.

12 Nov 1918 left Mudros for Constantinople - see p. 605 www.naval-review.org/issues/1919-4.pdf.


Guns: 10 - 12 inch 45 cal. Dir. Con.; 11 - 4 inch (Tem. & Superb) Dir. Con.; 10 - 4 inch (Bell'n); Dir. Con.; 2 - 4 inch (anti-aircraft B. & T.); 2 - 3 inch (anti-aircraft Sup.); 4 - 3 pdr. 5 M. G.; 1 (landing). Torpedo tubes (18 inch, M. '04): 2 submerged (broadside) Armour (Vertical), (K.C.): 10" - 9" Lower belt; 8" Upper belt; 7" - 6" Lower & upper belts (bow); 5" Belt (stern); 8" After bulkhead; 10" - 9" Barbettes; 11" - " Gunhouses; 11" Fore C.T. (4" tube); 8" After C.T. (4" tube) Armour (Decks), (K. N. C.): 1.75" - .75" Main; 3" - 1.75" Middle; 4" - 1.5" Lower; Special Protec: -' Screens to magazines, boiler and engine rooms