Canopus Class battleships of the Royal Navy included HMS Canopus built at Portsmouth, HMS Goliath built at Chatham, HMS Ocean built at Devonport, HMS Glory built at Laird, HMS Albion built at Thames and HMS Vengeance built at Vickers.

This class of ship except HMS Vengeance was built under the 1896 naval building programme (Vengeance in the1897 programme) These battleships were slightly smaller and faster than the Majestic Class and Built with the China Station role in mind. This was because of the Increase in Naval sea power that Japan had built up, this threat remained until 1905 when the British-Japanese treaty was signed.  These battleships were the first to be fitted with water-tube boilers which allowed for higher power without any increase in weight (using Belleville Boilers.)

Displacement: 12,950 tons.   Length: 410 ft.   Beam: 74 ft.  Draught: 26.5 ft.   Complement: 750.   Armament: four 12 ins guns, twelve 6 ins guns, ten 3 ins guns, six 3 pounder guns and two maxims with four torpedo tubes.

HMS Albion - Name History

The sixth “Albion” is a 14-gun twin-screw battleship, built at Blackwall in 1898.  She is of 12,950 tons, 13,500 horsepower, and 18 knots speed.  Her length, draught, and beam were 390ft, 74ft, and 26ft.

Officers of HMS Albion.

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HMS Albion, 1901.

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HMS Albion being towed by HMS Canopus, May 1915.

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HMS Albion photographed early 1915 just before being sent to the Dardanelles

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