HMS Britannia

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:Royal_Navy_ship
gptkbp:armament 12 × 6-inch guns
4 × 12-inch guns
gptkbp:beam 20.1 meters
gptkbp:builder gptkb:Cammell_Laird
gptkbp:class gptkb:Brittania-class
gptkbp:commander gptkb:Captain_John_Smith
gptkbp:commissioned 1860
gptkbp:coolingSystem Cylindrical boilers
gptkbp:crewSize 600
gptkbp:decommissioned 1904
gptkbp:displacement 8,000 tons
gptkbp:draft 7.5 meters
gptkbp:engineType Coal-fired steam engine
gptkbp:fate Sold for scrap
Scrapped in 1920
gptkbp:firstCommandingOfficer gptkb:Captain_William_H._Smith
gptkb:Captain_Edward_Seymour
gptkbp:firstDeployment 1904
gptkbp:historicalSignificance First ship to use a steam engine in the Royal Navy.
gptkbp:homePort gptkb:Plymouth
gptkb:Portsmouth
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label HMS Britannia
gptkbp:launched June 16, 1859
gptkbp:length 100 meters
gptkbp:lengthOverall 100.6 meters
gptkbp:nickname The Old Lady
gptkbp:notableEvent Participated in the naval review of 1897
Served in the Second Anglo-Afghan War
Participated in the Battle of the Nile
Visited_Australia_in_1887
gptkbp:notableFeature gptkb:Royal_Yacht_for_Queen_Victoria
gptkbp:numberOfFigures 6
gptkbp:numberOfStudents 2
gptkbp:propulsion Steam engine
gptkbp:range 5,000 nautical miles
gptkbp:replacedBy gptkb:HMS_Dreadnought
gptkbp:servedIn gptkb:Royal_Navy
gptkb:World_War_I
gptkb:Mediterranean_Fleet
gptkb:Channel_Fleet
gptkb:Atlantic_Fleet
gptkbp:services gptkb:Royal_Navy_Reserve
gptkbp:sisterShip gptkb:HMS_Majestic
gptkbp:speed 15 knots