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892 5 languages deutsch فارسی suomi עברית português edit links article talk english read edit view history tools tools move to sidebar hide actions read edit view history general what links here related changes upload file permanent link page information cite this page get shortened url switch to legacy parser print export download as pdf printable version in other projects wikimedia commons wikidata item appearance move to sidebar hide from wikipedia the free encyclopedia british lead ship of centurion class for other ships with the same name see hms centurion centurion at anchor history united kingdom name centurion namesake centurion builder hm dockyard portsmouth cost 540 090 laid down 30 march 1890 launched 3 august 1892 commissioned 14 february 1894 decommissioned 1 april 1909 refit 19 september 1901 3 november 1903 fate sold for scrap 12 july 1910 general characteristics as built class type centurion class pre dreadnought battleship displacement 10 634 long tons 10 805 t length 390 ft 9 in 119 1 m o a beam 70 ft 21 3 m draught 25 ft 8 in 7 82 m installed power 9 000 ihp 6 700 kw 8 cylindrical boilers propulsion 2 shafts 2 triple expansion steam engines speed 17 knots 31 km h 20 mph range 5 230 nmi 9 690 km 6 020 mi at 10 knots 19 km h 12 mph complement 606 620 armament 2 twin 10 in 254 mm guns 10 single 4 7 in 120 mm guns 8 single 6 pdr 2 2 in 57 mm guns 12 single 3 pdr 1 9 in 47 mm guns 7 18 in 450 mm torpedo tubes armour belt 9 12 in 229 305 mm decks 2 2 5 in 51 64 mm barbettes 5 9 in 127 229 mm gunhouses 6 in 152 mm hms centurion was the lead ship of her class of two pre dreadnought battleships built for the royal navy in the 1890s intended for service abroad they exchanged heavy armour and a powerful armament for high speed and long range to counter the foreign armoured cruisers then being built as commerce raiders and were rated as second class battleships completed in 1894 centurion was assigned to the china station as its flagship together with her sister ship barfleur she supported allied operations during the boxer rebellion of 1899 1901 and contributed landing parties to participate in the battles of the taku forts and of tientsin the ship returned home in 1901 to be rebuilt with a more powerful secondary armament centurion rejoined the china station two years later and remained there until 1905 when she returned to britain already made obsolete by the increasing speeds of the cruisers the ship was designed to defend against she was placed in reserve until 1909 centurion was decommissioned that year and sold for scrap in 1910 design and description edit the centurion class was designed to meet an admiralty requirement for ships suitable for use as flagships on the china and pacific stations able to defeat the most powerful foreign ships likely to be encountered there 1 they had an overall length of 390 feet 9 inches 119 1 m and a length between perpendiculars of 360 ft 109 7 m and a beam of 70 feet 21 3 m their draught at normal load was 25 ft 8 in 7 82 m and 26 feet 9 inches 8 2 m at deep load the centurion class ships displaced 10 634 long tons 10 805 t at normal load and 11 200 long tons 11 400 t at deep load 2 their steel hulls were sheathed in wood and copper to reduce biofouling 3 their crews numbered 620 officers and ratings in 1895 and 600 after they were rebuilt in the early years of the 20th century 2 the centurion s were powered by a pair of three cylinder vertical triple expansion steam engines each driving a single propeller using steam provided by eight coal fired cylindrical boilers the engines were designed to produce a total of 9 000 indicated horsepower 6 700 kw which was intended to allow the ships to make a speed of 17 knots 31 km h 20 mph using natural draught the engines proved to be slightly more powerful than anticipated and centurion reached 17 05 knots 31 6 km h 19 6 mph from 9 703 ihp 7 236 kw during her sea trials using forced draught she attained 18 51 knots 34 3 km h 21 3 mph from 13 214 ihp 9 854 kw although this often damaged the boilers and was officially discouraged the centurion class ships had a range of 5 230 nautical miles 9 690 km 6 020 mi at 10 knots 19 km h 12 mph 4 armament and armour edit the four 32 calibre breech loading 10 inch mk iii guns of the main battery were mounted in two twin gun circular barbettes one forward and one aft of the superstructure their secondary armament consisted of ten 40 calibre quick firing qf 4 7 inch guns in single mounts half a dozen of these guns were mounted on the upper deck protected by gun shields and the remaining guns were mounted in casemates in the sides of the hull defence against torpedo boats was provided by eight qf six pounder 2 2 inch 57 mm guns note 1 and a dozen qf three pounder 1 9 in 47 mm hotchkiss guns the ships were also armed with seven 18 inch note 2 torpedo tubes two on each broadside and one in the stern above water and one on each broadside underwater 2 the centurion class ships were mostly fitted with compound armour although some portions were made from improved harvey armour their waterline main belt ranged in thickness from 9 to 12 inches 229 to 305 mm the armoured deck lay across the top of the waterline belt and consisted of 2 inches 51 mm of mild steel below the waterline the 2 5 inch 64 mm lower deck extended from the 5 inch 127 mm bases of the barbettes to the bow and stern the barbettes were 8 or 9 inches 203 or 229 mm thick and the gun crews were protected by an armoured hood or gunhouse that consisted of 6 inches of nickel steel 6 modifications edit bilge keels were added to centurion in 1896 1897 and gun shields were removed from those guns mounted in the fighting tops between 1897 and 1899 some three pounders were removed from centurion s fighting tops about two years later in september 1901 the ship began a reconstruction that exchanged her 4 7 inch guns with 6 inch guns and upgraded their protection to help compensate for the additional weight all of her above water torpedo tubes were removed as was the aft bridge the remaining three pounders in the fighting tops were repositioned to the superstructure and the barbette hoods and the foremast was replaced by a signal mast 7 despite these measures there was a slight increase in weight that reduced the ship s speed by about 0 25 knots 0 5 km h 0 3 mph 8 in 1906 all of her remaining three pounders were removed and the mainmast fighting top was modified as a fire control position 9 construction and career edit centurion was named after the roman army rank 10 and was the sixth ship of her name to serve in the royal navy 11 the ship was laid down at hm dockyard portsmouth on 30 march 1890 and launched on 3 august 1892 she was completed in february 1894 12 at a cost of 540 090 13 centurion was commissioned on 14 february for service on the china station under the command of captain edmund poë 14 she sailed for the far east on 2 march and upon her arrival at singapore on 11 april became the flagship of the china station 15 when vice admiral the honourable sir edmund fremantle commander in chief of the china station hoisted his flag aboard her 16 captain john mcquhae relieved poë three days later in his turn mcquhae was relieved by captain spencer login on 21 march 1895 14 vice admiral sir alexander buller relieved fremantle on 28 may 16 jellicoe depicted on a contemporary cigarette card centurion ran aground on a sandbank at shimonoseki japan in june 1896 but was not damaged 15 captain john jellicoe the future first sea lord assumed command of the ship on 12 february 1898 14 a week later vice admiral sir edward seymour hoisted his flag aboard her 16 during the boxer rebellion she contributed men to seymour s expedition that attempted and failed to relieve the besieged international legations in peking capital of china between 10 and 28 june 1900 jellicoe served as seymour s flag captain during the expedition and was badly wounded on the 21st 17 in addition the ship put landing parties ashore which joined other forces in storming the taku forts on 16 17 june and in relieving the foreign legations at tientsin on 13 14 july 15 while anchored at wusong china near shanghai she parted her mooring cables during a storm on 17 april 1901 and drifted across the bows of the battleship hms glory glory s bow punched a hole in centurion s hull below the waterline but the damage was not serious and was repaired at hong kong 15 glory relieved centurion as flagship on 10 june 15 and vice admiral sir cyprian bridge relieved seymour on the 26th 18 centurion with seymour aboard arrived at portsmouth on 19 august where she was welcomed by the local commander in chief and thousands of people lining the beach and pier 19 admiral seymour struck his flag on 21 august 20 and after a month centurion paid off into reserve there on 19 september 21 the ship began a reconstruction at portsmouth that month including a partial rearmament that lasted until on 3 november 1903 when she recommissioned for another period of service on the china station centurion departed portsmouth on 10 november and arrived at hong kong on 31 december 1903 in 1905 the united kingdom and japan renewed the anglo japanese alliance which reduced the need for a large royal navy presence on the china station and all its battleships were withdrawn accordingly on 7 june centurion together with the battleship hms ocean departed hong kong at singapore they rendezvoused with the battleships hms albion and hms vengeance the four battleships departed singapore on 20 june and steamed in company to plymouth where they arrived on 2 august 15 hms centurion by w fred mitchell 1904 centurion paid off at portsmouth on 25 august she recommissioned the following day with a nucleus crew as part of the portsmouth division of the reserve fleet because she was already obsolete the ship participated in combined exercises of the reserve fleet atlantic fleet and channel fleet in june 1906 on 24 may 1907 centurion transferred her crew to the battleship hms exmouth and recommissioned the next day with a new nucleus crew to serve as a special service vessel with the portsmouth division of the home fleet the reserve fleet having been absorbed by the home fleet in the meantime in march 1909 the special service vessels were reassigned to the 4th division home fleet 22 this did not last long as centurion paid off for the last time on 1 april and was listed for sale by the end of june she was anchored at the motherbank awaiting disposal 15 the ship was sold for scrap on 12 july 1910 for a price of 26 300 and arrived at thos w ward morecambe to begin demolition on 4 september 23 legacy edit in august 1902 an obelisk was erected in victoria park portsmouth in memory of the officers and men of the centurion who had died in china 24 the figurehead of centurion was removed from the ship in 1901 and is now in he collection of the national museum of the royal navy 25 notes edit available sources do not specify the model of gun installed judging by production numbers it most likely the qf 6 pounder hotchkiss not the qf 6 pounder nordenfelt 5 the actual diameter of these torpedoes was 17 7 inches 450 mm citations edit burt pp 109 10 1 2 3 burt p 115 parkes p 367 burt pp 82 115 117 parkes p 369 friedman pp 116 17 burt pp 115 117 burt pp 117 119 parkes p 369 burt p 119 silverstone p 220 colledge p 63 chesneau koleśnik p 33 parkes p 366 1 2 3 h m s centurion 1892 dreadnoughtproject org retrieved 4 january 2018 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 burt p 121 1 2 3 china station dreadnoughtproject org retrieved 4 january 2018 seymour pp 343 349 seymour p 375 admiral seymour s return the times no 36538 london 20 august 1901 p 4 naval military intelligence the times no 36540 london 22 august 1901 p 4 naval military intelligence the times no 36565 london 20 september 1901 p 8 burt pp 121 123 naval matters past and prospective portsmouth dockyard the marine engineer and naval architect vol 33 august 1910 p 10 naval military intelligence the times no 36844 london 12 august 1902 p 8 pulvertaft david 2009 the warship figureheads of portsmouth 1st colour ed uk the history press p 92 isbn 978 0752450766 references edit burt r a 2013 british battleships 1889 1904 new revised ed annapolis maryland naval institute press isbn 978 1 59114 065 8 chesneau roger kolesnik eugene m eds 1979 conway s all the world s fighting ships 1860 1905 greenwich uk conway maritime press isbn 0 8317 0302 4 colledge j j warlow ben 2006 1969 ships of the royal navy the complete record of all fighting ships of the royal navy from the 15th century to the present 3rd rev ed london chatham publishing isbn 978 1 86176 281 8 oclc 67375475 friedman norman 2011 naval weapons of world war one barnsley south yorkshire uk seaforth isbn 978 1 84832 100 7 parkes oscar 1990 british battleships reprint of the 1957 ed annapolis maryland naval institute press isbn 1 55750 075 4 seymour edward h 1911 my naval career and travels new york e p dutton oclc 828933691 retrieved 4 january 2018 silverstone paul h 1984 directory of the world s capital ships new york hippocrene books isbn 0 88254 979 0 external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to hms centurion 1892 centurion on battleship cruisers co uk v t e centurion class battleships centurion barfleur preceded by royal sovereign class followed by hms renown list of pre dreadnought battleships of the royal navy v t e shipwrecks and maritime incidents in 1896 shipwrecks 6 mar volo 22 may belgravia 5 jun drummond castle 27 aug hhs glasgow 24 sep hugo 14 oct w w story 18 oct australasia 30 oct samuel p ely 7 nov commodore 5 dec nathan f cobb 8 dec british peer unknown date hms vixen other incidents 10 feb la bourgogne 29 feb la bourgogne 2 mar rosstrevor 24 apr 104 8 jun 104 31 aug oakland june unknown date hms centurion 18 jul hms repulse 26 oct rossia 14 dec equity 23 dec hms repulse 1895 1897 v t e shipwrecks and maritime incidents in 1901 shipwrecks 22 feb city of rio de janeiro 17 mar bee 10 apr usat rawlins 20 apr karagola 26 jun lusitania 15 jul blanche 29 jul sagamore 3 aug hms viper 15 aug islander 26 aug oakland 4 sep sms wacht 19 sep hms cobra 20 sep ss fedora 2 oct m m drake 14 nov beauchamp 4 dec c h wheeler unknown date hms scorpion other incidents 15 jan vigilancia 11 feb oakland 17 apr hms centurion hms glory 2 jun mataafa 27 jul oakland jul unknown date virawa 1 sep cromartyshire 4 sep sms sachsen 27 oct hms repulse 9 nov hms royal sovereign tijuca 1900 1902 retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title hms_centurion_ 1892 oldid 1374725114 categories centurion class battleships ships built in portsmouth 1892 ships victorian era battleships of the united kingdom naval ships commissioned in 1894 naval ships decommissioned in 1909 hidden categories articles with short description short description is different from wikidata good articles use british english from september 2013 all wikipedia articles written in british 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