List of battleships of the Royal Navy

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Contents 1 List of battleships of the Royal Navy (1882-1945) 1.1 Pre-Dreadnoughts (1882-1906) 1.2 Dreadnoughts (1906-1910) 1.3 Super-Dreadnoughts (1910-1945)

[edit] List of battleships of the Royal Navy (1882-1945)

[edit] Pre-Dreadnoughts (1882-1906)

• Colossus class battleship (1882) central citadel turret-ships the first RN ships rated as battleships
  • HMS Colossus (1882) (1882) - Sold for BU 1908
  • HMS Edinburgh (1882) (1882) (ex-Majestic) - Sold for BU 1910
• Admiral class battleship
  • HMS Collingwood (1882) (1882) - Sold for BU 1909
  • HMS Rodney (1884) (1884) - Sold for BU 1909
  • HMS Howe (1885) (1885) - Sold for BU 1910
  • HMS Camperdown (1885) (1885) - Sold for BU 1911
  • HMS Anson (1886) (1886) - Sold for BU 1909
  • HMS Benbow (1885) (1885) - Sold for BU 1909
• Victoria class battleship
  • HMS Victoria (1887) (1887) (ex-Renown) - Sunk by accidental ramming 1893
  • HMS Sans Pareil (1887) (1887) - Sold for BU 1907
• Trafalgar class battleship
  • HMS Trafalgar (1887) (1887) - Sold for BU 1912
  • HMS Nile (1888) (1888) - Sold for BU 1912
• Royal Sovereign class battleship
  • HMS Royal Sovereign (1891) (1891) - Sold for BU 1913
  • HMS Empress of India (1891) (1891) - Sunk as target 1913
  • HMS Repulse (1892) (1892) - Sold for BU 1911
  • HMS Ramillies (1892) (1892) - Sold for BU 1913
  • HMS Resolution (1892) (1892) - Sold for BU 1914
  • HMS Revenge (1892) (1892) - Renamed Redoubtable 1915, sold for BU 1919
  • HMS Royal Oak (1892) (1892) - Sold for BU 1914
• HMS Hood (1891) (1891) (near-sister to Royal Sovereign class) - Scuttled 1914
• Centurion class battleship
  • HMS Centurion (1892) (1892) - Sold for BU 1910
  • HMS Barfleur (1892) (1892) - Sold for BU 1910
• HMS Renown (1895) (1895) - Sold for BU 1914
• Majestic class
  • HMS Magnificent (1894) (1894) Sold for BU 1921
  • HMS Majestic (1895) (1895) - Torpedoed 1915
  • HMS Prince George (1895) (1895) - Renamed Victorious II 1918-1919; sold for BU; 1921; wrecked en route scrapyard 1921
  • HMS Victorious (1895) (1895) - Renamed Indus II 1920; sold for BU 1922
  • HMS Jupiter (1895) (1895) - Sold for BU 1920
  • HMS Mars (1897) (1896) - Sold for BU 1921
  • HMS Hannibal (1898) (1896) - Sold for BU 1920
  • HMS Caesar (1896) (1896) - Sold for BU 1921
  • HMS Illustrious (1896) (1896) - Sold for BU 1920
• Canopus class battleship
  • HMS Canopus (1897) (1897) - Sold for BU 1920
  • HMS Goliath (1898) (1898) - Torpedoed 1915
  • HMS Albion (1898) (1898) - Sold for BU 1919
  • HMS Ocean (1898) (1898) - Mined 1915
  • HMS Glory (1899) (1899) - Renamed Crescent 1920; sold for BU 1922
  • HMS Vengeance (1899) (1899) - Sold for BU 1921
• Formidable class battleship
  • HMS Formidable (1898) (1898) - Torpedoed 1915
  • HMS Irresistible (1898) (1898) - Mined 1915
  • HMS Implacable (1899) (1899)- Sold for BU 1921
• London class battleship (modified Formidable class)
  • HMS London (1899) (1899) - Sold for BU 1920
  • HMS Bulwark (1899) (1899) - Destroyed by internal explosion 1914
  • HMS Venerable (1899) (1899) - Sold for BU 1920
  • HMS Queen (1902) (1902) - Sold for BU 1920
  • HMS Prince of Wales (1902) (1902) - Sold for BU 1920
• Duncan class battleship
  • HMS Russell (1901) (1901) - Mined 1916
  • HMS Albemarle (1901) (1901) - Sold for BU 1919
  • HMS Montagu (1901) (1901) - Wrecked 1906
  • HMS Duncan (1901) (1901) - Sold for BU 1920
  • HMS Cornwallis (1901) (1901) - Torpedoed 1917
  • HMS Exmouth (1901) (1901) - Sold for BU 1920
• King Edward VII class battleship
  • HMS Commonwealth (1903) (1903) - Sold for BU 1921
  • HMS King Edward VII (1903) (1903) - Mined 1916
  • HMS Dominion (1903) (1903) - Sold for BU 1921
  • HMS Hindustan (1903) (1903) - Sold for BU 1921
  • HMS New Zealand (1904) (1904) - Renamed Zealandia 1911, sold for BU 1921
  • HMS Britannia (1904) (1904) - Torpedoed 1918
  • HMS Africa (1905) (1905) - Sold for BU 1920
  • HMS Hibernia (1905) (1905) - Sold for BU 1921
• Swiftsure class battleship
  • HMS Swiftsure (1903) (1903) (ex-Chilean Constitucion, taken over 1903) - Sold for BU 1920
  • HMS Triumph (1903) (1903) (ex-Chilean Libertad, taken over 1903) - Torpedoed 1915
• Lord Nelson class battleship
  • HMS Agamemnon (1906) (1906) - Sold for BU 1927
  • HMS Lord Nelson (1906) (1906) - Sold for BU 1920

[edit] Dreadnoughts (1906-1910)

• HMS Dreadnought (1906) (1906) -Sold for BU 1921
• Bellerophon class battleship
  • HMS Bellerophon (1907) (1907) - Sold for BU 1921
  • HMS Superb (1907) (1907) - Sold for BU 1923
  • HMS Temeraire (1907) (1907) - Sold for BU 1921
• St. Vincent class battleship
  • HMS St. Vincent (1908) (1908) - Sold for BU 1921
  • HMS Collingwood (1908) (1908) - Sold for BU 1922
  • HMS Vanguard (1909) (1909) - Sunk by internal explosion 1917
• Neptune class battleship
  • HMS Neptune (1909) (1909) - Sold for BU 1922
• Colossus class battleship (1910)
  • HMS Colossus (1910) (1910) - - Sold for BU 1928
  • HMS Hercules (1910) (1910) - Sold for BU 1921

[edit] Super-Dreadnoughts (1910-1945)

• Orion class
  • Orion (1910) - Sold for BU 1922
  • Monarch (1911) - Sunk as target 1925
  • Conqueror (1911) - Sold for BU 1922
  • Thunderer (1911) - Sold for BU 1926
• King George V class
  • King George V (ex-Royal George) (1911) - Sold for BU 1926
  • Centurion (1911) - Became target ship 1926; became decoy ship 1941; sunk as blockship 1944
  • Audacious (1912) - Mined 1914
  • Ajax (1912) - Sold for BU 1926
• Iron Duke class
  • Iron Duke (1912) - Disarmed 1929; sold for BU 1946
  • Marlborough (1912) - Sold for BU 1932
  • Benbow (1913) - Sold for BU 1931
  • Emperor of India (ex-Delhi) (1913) - Sunk as target 1931; raised and sold for BU 1932
• Agincourt (ex-Sultan Osman I) (1913) - Sold for BU 1922
• Erin (ex-Reshadieh) (1913) - Sold for BU 1922
• Canada (ex-Almirante Lattore) (1913) - Sold to Chile 1920 (became Almirante Lattore)
• Queen Elizabeth class
  • Queen Elizabeth (1913) - Sold for BU 1948
  • Warspite (1913) - Sold for BU 1946
  • Barham (1914) - Torpedoed 1941
  • Valiant (1914) - Sold for BU 1948
  • Malaya (1915) - Sold for BU 1948
  • Agincourt - Cancelled 1914
• Revenge class (originally Royal Sovereign class)
  • Royal Oak (1914) - Torpedoed 1939
  • Royal Sovereign (1915) - Loaned to Soviet Union (as Arkhangelsk) 1944-1949; returned and sold for BU 1949.
  • Revenge (ex-Renown) (1915) - Sold for BU 1948
  • Resolution (1915) - Sold for BU 1948
  • Ramillies (1916) - Sold for BU 1948
  • Renown - Suspended 1914; not completed
  • Repulse - Suspended 1914; not completed
  • Resistance - Cancelled 1914
• (planned N3 battleships - never built)
• Nelson class
  • Nelson (1925) - BU 1948
  • Rodney (1925) - BU 1948
• King George V class
  • King George V (1939) - BU 1957
  • Prince of Wales (1939) - Sunk 1941
  • Duke of York (ex-Anson) (1940) - BU 1957
  • Anson (ex-Jellicoe) (1940) - BU 1957
  • Howe (ex-Beatty) (1940) - BU 1957
• Temeraire or Lion class
  • Lion (not completed)
  • Temeraire (not completed)
  • Conqueror (planned)
  • Thunderer (planned)
• HMS Vanguard (1944) (1944) - the last battleship completed for the Royal Navy; BU 1960