Royal Navy Battleships

February 19, 2000

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Class Pennant Number Name Keel Laid Launched First Commissioned Builder Last De-
Commissioned Fate

Pre-Dreadnoughts

Sans Pareil Sans Pareil 21 Apr 1885 9 May 1887 8 Jul 1891 Thames 1907? Scrapped, 1907.

Victoria 23 Apr 1885 9 Apr 1887 19 Mar 1890 Elswick 22 Jun 1893 Sunk in collision with HMS Camperdown, 22 Jun 1893.

Trafalgar Nile 8 Apr 1886 27 Mar 1888 30 Jun 1891 Pembroke 1911? Scrapped, 1912

Trafalgar 18 Jan 1886 20 Sep 1887 2 Apr 1890 Portsmouth 1911? Scrapped, 1911.

Royal Sovereign Empress of India 9 Jul 1889 7 May 1891 4 Sep 1893 Pembroke 1911? Target ship, sunk Nov 1913.

Ramilles 11 Aug 1890 1 Mar 1892 17 Oct 1893 Thomsons Aug 1911? Scrapped, 1913.

Repulse 1 Jan 1890 27 Feb 1892 21 Apr 1894 Pembroke Aug 1910? Scrapped, 1911.

Resolution 14 Jun 1890 28 May 1892 5 Dec 1893 Palmers Aug 1911? Scrapped, 1914.

Revenge 12 Feb 1891 3 Nov 1892 22 Mar 1894 Palmers Feb 1919? Scrapped, 1919.

Royal Oak 29 May 1890 5 Nov 1892 14 Jan 1896? Lairds Aug 1913? Scrapped, 1914.

Royal Sovereign 30 Jul 1889 26 Feb 1891 31 May 1892 Portsmouth 1913? Scrapped, 1913.

Hood Hood 12 Aug 1889 30 Jul 1891 1 Jun 1893 Chatham Mar 1911? Sunk as block ship, 1914.

Centurion Barfleur 12 Oct 1890 10 Aug 1892 Jul 1894 Chatham Scrapped, 1910.

Centurion 30 Mar 1890 3 Aug 1892 14 Feb 1894 Portsmouth Scrapped, 1910.

Renown Renown Feb 1893 8 May 1895 Jun 1897 Pembroke Scrapped, 1914.

Majestic Majestic Feb 1894 31 Jan 1895 12 Dec 1895 Portsmouth War loss: Torpedoed by U.21, 27 May 1915.

Magnificent 18 Dec 1893 19 Dec 1894 12 Dec 1895 Chatham Scrapped, 1921.

Hannibal 1 May 1894 28 Apr 1896 10 May 1898 Pembroke Scrapped, 1920.

Prince George 10 Sep 1894 22 Aug 1895 26 Jun 1896 Portsmouth Scrapped, 1921.

Victorious 28 May 1894 19 Oct 1895 4 Nov 1896 Chatham Scrapped, 1923.

Jupiter 26 Apr 1894 18 Nov 1895 8 Jun 1897 Clydebank Scrapped, 1919?

Mars 2 Jun 1894 30 Mar 1896 8 Jun 1897 Lairds Scrapped, 1921.

Caesar 25 Mar 1895 2 Sep 1896 13 Jan 1898 Portsmouth Scrapped, 1921.

Illustrious 11 Mar 1895 2 Sep 1896 May 1898 Chatham Scrapped, 1920.

Canopus Canopus 4 Jan 1897 12 Oct 1897 5 Dec 1899 Portsmouth Scrapped, 1920.

Glory 1 Dec 1896 11 Mar 1899 Nov 1900 Lairds Scrapped, 1922.

Albion 3 Dec 1896 21 Jun 1898 Jun 1900 Thames Scrapped 1919.

Goliath 4 Jan 1897 23 Mar 1898 27 Mar 1900 Chatham War losss: Torpedoed by Turkish PTB, 13 May 1915

Ocean 15 Feb 1897 5 Jul 1898 Feb 1900 Devonport War loss: Sunk by mine and gunfire, 18 Mar 1915.

Vengeance 23 Aug 1898 24 Jul 1899 Apr 1902 Vickers Scrapped, 1921.

Formidable Formidable 21 Mar 1898 17 Nov 1898 10 Oct 1901 Portsmouth War loss: Torpedoed by U.24, 1 Jan 1915

Irresistible 11 Apr 1898 15 Dec 1898 4 Feb 1902 Chatham War loss: Sunk by mine and gunfire, 18 Mar 1915

Implacable 13 Jul 1898 11 Mar 1899 10 Sep 1901 Devonport Scrapped 1921

London Bulwark 20 Mar 1899 18 Oct 1899 18 Mar 1902 Devonport Destroyed by internal explosion, 26 Nov 1914

London 8 Dec 1898 21 Dec 1899 7 Jun 1902 Portsmouth Scrapped 1920.

Venerable 2 Jan 1899 2 Nov 1899 12 Nov 1902 Chatham Scrapped?

Queen 12 Mar 1902 8 Mar 1902 7 Apr 1904 Devonport Scrapped 1920.

Prince of Wales 20 Mar 1901 25 Mar 1902 18 May 1904 Chatham Scrapped 1920.

Duncan Duncan 10 Jul 1899 21 Mar 1901 3 Oct 1903 Thames Scrapped 1920

Cornwallis 19 Jul 1899 13 Jul 1901 Feb 1904 Thames War loss: Torpedoed by U.32, 9 Jan 1917

Exmouth 10 Aug 1899 31 Aug 1901 Jun 1903 Lairds Scrapped 1920

Russell 11 Mar 191899 19 Feb 1901 Feb 1903 Palmers War loss: Struck mine, 27 Apr 1916

Albermarle 8 Jan 1900 5 Mar 1901 Nov 1903 Chatham Scrapped 1920

Montagu 23 Nov 1899 5 Mar 1901 Oct 1903 Devonport Wrecked (ran aground in fog), 30 May 1906

King Edward VII King Edward VII 8 Mar 1902 23 Jul 1903 7 Feb 1905 Devonport War loss: Struck mine, 6 Jan 1916

Dominion 23 May 1902 25 Aug 1903 5 Aug 1905 Vickers Scrapped 1921

Commonwealth 17 Jun 1902 13 May 1903 9 Apr 1905 Fairfield Scrapped 1921

Hindustan 25 Oct 1902 19 Dec 1903 22 Aug 1905 Clydebank Scrapped 1921

New Zealand
(Zealandia) 9 Feb 1903 4 Feb 1904 11 Jul 1905 Portsmouth Scrapped 1921

Africa 27 Jan 1904 20 May 1905 Nov 1906 Chatham Scrapped 1920

Britannia 4 Feb 1904 10 Dec 1904 Oct 1906 Portsmouth War loss: Torpedoed by UB.50, 9 Nov 1918

Hibernia 6 Jan 1904 17 Jun 1905 2 Jan 1907 Devonport Scrapped 1921

Constitution Swiftsure 26 Feb 1902 12 Jan 1903 Jun 1904 Elswick Scrapped 1920.

Triumph 26 Feb 1902 15 Jan 1903 Jun 1904 Elswick War loss: Torpedoed Apr 1916.

Lord Nelson Lord Nelson 18 May 1905 4 Sep 1906 Dec1908 Palmers Scrapped

Agamenon 15 May 1905 23 Jun 1906 25 Jun 1908 Beardmore Scrapped

Dreadnoughts

Dreadnought Dreadnought 2 Oct 1905 10 Feb 1906 3 Dec 1906 Portsmouth Feb 1919 Scrapped 1921-23

Bellerophon Bellerophon 3 Dec 1906 27 Jul 1907 20 Feb 1909 Portsmouth 1919 Scrapped

Superb 6 Feb 1907 7 Nov 1907 9 Jun 1909 Armstrong 1919 Scrapped 1922-23

Temeraire 1 Jan 1907 24 8 1907 15 May 1909 Devonport Training ship, 1919. Scrapped 1922-23.

Collingwood Collingwood 3 Fen 1907 7 Nov 1908 19 Apr 1910 Devonport Scrapped 1922-23

St. Vincent 30 Dec 1907 10 Sep 1908 3 May 1909 Portsmouth Scrapped 1922

Vanguard 2 Apr 1908 22 Feb 1909 1 Mar 1910 Vickers Destroyed by internal explosion, 9 Jul 1917

Neptune Neptune 19 Jan 1909 30 Sep 1909 11 Nov 1911 Portsmouth Scrapped 1923

Colossus Colossus 6 Jul 1909 9 Apr 1910 8 Aug 1911 Scotts Scrapped 1922.

Hercules 30 Jul 1909 10 May 1910 31 Jul 1911 Palmers Scrapped 1920

Orion Orion 29 Nov 1909 20 Aug 1910 2 Jan 1912 Devonport Scrapped 1923

Conqueror 5 Apr 1910 1 May 1911 25 Feb 1913 Beardmore Scrapped 1923

Monarch 1 Apr 1910 30 Mar 1911 6 Apr 1912 Armstrong Sunk as target 20 Jan 1925

Thunderer 13 Apr 1910 2 Feb 1911 15 Jun 1912 Thames Cadet ship 1920-26. Scrapped 1927

Erin Erin 6 Dec 1911 3 Sep 1913 22 Aug 1914 Vickers Scrapped 1923

Agincourt Agincourt 25 Sep 1911 22 Jan 1913 20 Aug 1914 Armstrong, Newcastle Scrapped 1922-24

Almirante Lattore Canada (originally and later Almirante Lattore) 27 Nov 1911 27 Nov 1913 30 Sep 1915 Armstrong Returned to Chilean ownership Apr 1920. Scrapped 1959

India (formerly Almirante Cochrane) 22 Jan 1913 8 Jun 1918 13 Apr 1920 Armstrong, Newcastle Completed as carrier HMS Eagle. War Loss: Sunk by U-73 11 Aug 1942

King George V King George V 16 Jan 1911 9 Oct 1911 16 Nov 1912 Portsmouth Scrapped 1927

Centurion 16 Jan 1911 18 Nov 1911 22 May 1913 Devonport Scuttled Jun 1944 off Normandy

Audacious 23 Mar 1911 14 Sep 1912 21 Oct 1913 Cammell, Birkenhead War loss: Struck mine 27 Oct 1914.

Ajax 27 Feb 1911 21 Mar 1912 31 Oct 1913 Scotts Scrapped 1927

Iron Duke Iron Duke 12 Jan 1912 12 Oct 1912 10 Mar 1914 Portsmouth Converted to gunnery training ship 1931-32. Scrapped 1946

Benbow 30 May 1912 12 Nov 1913 7 Oct 1914 Beardmore Scrapped 1931

Emperor of India 31 May 1912 27 Nov 1913 12 Oct 1914 Vickers Scrapped 1931-32

Marlborough 25 Jan 1912 24 Oct 1912 2 Jun 1914 Devonport Scrapped 1932

Queen Elizabeth I-00 Queen Elizabeth 27 Oct 1912 16 Oct 1913 19 Jan 1915 Portsmouth Scrapped 1948

I-01 Valiant 31 Jan 1913 4 Nov 1914 19 Feb 1916 Fairfield Scrapped 1948

I-03 Warspite 31 Oct 1912 26 Nov 1913 19 Mar 1915 Devonport Mar 1946 Broke tow and ran aground 23 Apr 1947, scrapped to 1956

I-04 Barham 24 Feb 1913 31 Oct 1914 19 Oct 1915 J. Brown War loss: Sunk 25 Nov 1941 by U-331

I-01 Malaya 20 Oct 1913 18 Mar 1915 19 Feb 1916 Armstrong, Newcastle Scrapped

Agincourt - - - Devonport Cancelled

Royal Oak I-08 Royal Oak 15 Jan 1914 17 Nov 1914 1 May 1916 Devonport War loss: Sunk by U-47 at Scapa Flow 14 October 1939

I-05 Royal Sovereign 15 Jan 1914 29 Apr 1915 1 May 16 Portsmouth Scrapped

I-07 Ramilles 12 Nov 1913 12 Sep 1916 1 Nov 1917 C-L Scrapped

I-06 Revenge 22 Dec 1913 29 May 15 1 Mar 1916 Vickers Scrapped

I-09 Resolution 29 Nov 1913 14 Jan 1915 30 Dec 1916 Palmers Scrapped

Repulse - - - Palmers Re-ordered as battlecruiser

Renown - - - Fairfield Re-ordered as battlecruiser

Resistance - - - - Cancelled.

N3 St. Andrew(?) - - - - Cancelled Feb 1922 by Washington Treaty

St. George(?) - - - -

St. David(?) - - - -

St. Patrick(?) - - - -

Nelson I-28 Nelson 28 Dec 1922 2 Sep 1925 10 Sep 1927 Armstrong, Newcastle Scrapped

I-29 Rodney 28 Dec 1922 17 Dec 1925 10 Nov 1927 C-L Scrapped

King George V I-41 King George V 2 Jan 1937 21 Feb 1939 11 Dec 1940 Vickers Scrapped

I-53 Prince of Wales 2 Jan 1937 3 May 39 31 Mar 1941 C-L War loss: Sunk by Japanese torpedo bombers 10 Dec 1941

I-17 Duke of York 5 May 37 28 Feb 1940 4 Nov 1941 J. Brown Scrapped

I-72 Anson 20 Jul 1937 24 Feb 1940 22 Jun 1942 Swan Hunter Scrapped

I-32 Howe 1 Jun 1937 9 Apr 1940 29 Aug 1942 Fairfield Scrapped

Lion I-27 Lion 4 Jul 1939 - - Armstrong, Newcastle Construction stopped Oct 1939. Cancelled 27 Mar 1944.

I-36 Temeraire 1 Jun 1939 - - C-L

I-49 Thunderer - - - J. Brown - Construction stopped Oct 1939. Cancelled 1941

I-45 Conqureror - - - Fairfield -

Vanguard I-23 Vanguard 2 Oct 1941 30 Nov 1944 25 Apr 1946 J. Brown Scrapped

Battlecruisers

Invincible Invincible 2 Apr 1906 13 Apr 1907 20 Mar 1909 Elswick War loss: Exploded after being hit by gunfire from Lützow, 31 May 1916

Indomitable 1 Mar 1906 16 Mar 1907 25 Jun 1908 Fairfield 31 Mar 1920 Scrapped 1923

Inflexible 5 Feb 1906 26 Jun 1907 20 Oct 1908 Clydebank 31 Mar 1920 Scrapped 1923

Indefatigable Indefatigable 23 Feb 1909 28 Oct 1909 24 Feb 1911 Devonport War loss: Exploded after being hit by gunfire from von der Tann, 31 May 1916

Australia 23 Jun 1910 25 Oct 1911 6/??/1913 J. Brown Sunk to comply with Washington Treaty, 1924

New Zealand 20 Jun 1910 1 Jul 1911 11/??/1912 Fairfield Scrapped

Lion Lion 29 Nov 1909 6 Aug 1910 4 Jun 1912 Devonport Scrapped

Queen Mary 6 Mar 1911 20 Mar 1912 1/??/1913? Palmers War loss: Exploded after being hit by gunfire from Seydlitz and Derfflinger, 31 May 1916

Princess Royal 2 May 1910 29 Apr 1911 14 Nov 1912 Vickers Scrapped

Tiger Tiger 20 Jun 1912 15 Dec 1913 3 Oct 1914 J. Brown Mar 1931 Scrapped 1932

Leopard Cancelled

Repulse Repulse 25 Jan 1915 8 Jan 1916 18 Aug 1916 J. Brown War loss: Sunk by Japanese torpedo bombers 10 Dec 1941

Renown 25 Jan 1915 4 Mar 1916 20 Sep 1916 Fairfield Scrapped

Courageous Courageous 28 Mar 1915 5 Feb 1916 30 Jan 1917 Elswick Converted to carrier 1928.
War loss: Sunk by U-29, 17 Sep 1939.

Glorious 1 May 1915 20 Apr 1916 1/??/1917 Harland & Wolff Converted to carrier 1930.
War loss: Sunk by gunfire from Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, 8 Jun 1940.

Furious Furious 6/??/1915 15 Aug 1916 7/??/1917 Elswick 1944 Converted to carrier 1918. Scrapped

Incomparable Incomparable - - - - - Project cancelled 1915

Hood Hood 1 Sep 1916 22 Aug 1918 1 Mar 1920 J. Brown War loss: Exploded during engagement with Bismarck, 24 May 1941

Rodney - - - Fairfield - Cancelled 1917

Anson - - - Armstrong, Whitworth

Howe - - - C-L

G3 Invincible(?) - - - Swan Hunter - Cancelled Feb 1922 by Washington Treaty

Inflexible(?) - - - Beardmore

Indomitable(?) - - - Fairfield

Indefatigable(?) - - - J. Brown,

Key to builders:

Armstrong

Armstrong, Whitworth & Co. Elswick

Armstrong

Sir W.G. Armstrong, Newcastle

Beardmore

W. Beardmore & Co. Glasgow

J. Brown

John Brown & Co., Clydebank

Cammell-Laird

Cammell-Laird, Birkenhead

Chatham

Chatham Dockyard

Devonport

Devonport Dockyard

Fairfield

Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co., Govan, Glasgow

Harland & Wolff

Harland & Wolff, Belfast

Palmers

Palmers, Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Greenock

Portsmouth

Portsmouth Dockyard

Scotts

Scotts Shipbuilding & Ironworks, Greenock

Swan-Hunter

Swan Hunter, Newcastle

Thames

Thames Iron Works, Blackwall (Bankrupt 1912)

Vickers

Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness

Note on pennant numbers:

British pennant numbers were generally not permanently assigned to a particular ship and may change periodically, unlike those assigned to ships of the US Navy. The only reference that lists these pennant numbers is Sigfried Breyer's Battleships and Battlecruisers 1905-1970, pg 128. The pennant numbers given apply only to the period of World War II. These pennant numbers were not painted on the ships. Jane's Fighting Ships of World War II contradicts some of these pennant number assignments.

British name prefixes
Since time immemorial, British warship names have been prefixed with "HMS", which stands for His Majesty's Ship or Her Majesty's Ship, depending on whether a king or queen is currently reigning.

Royal Navy Battleship Chronology

22 Jun 1893.HMS Victoria sunk by collision with HMS Camperdown.
10 Feb 1906: HMS Dreadnought launched.
25 Jan 1910: Jackie Fisher retires from the Royal Navy.

August 1914-November 11 1918: World War I. Victory for Great Britain.

28 Aug 1914: Battle of Heligoland Bight. British light forces supported by battlecruisers HMS Lion, HMS Princess Royal, HMS Queen Mary, , and attack the light forces guarding the approaches to Germany's main naval bases. After a confused action between the light forces the British battlecruisers intervene directly and decisively. Three German cruisers are sunk.
1914: Jackie Fisher becomes First Sea Lord.
8 Dec 1914: Battle of the Falklands: British battlecruisers HMS Invincible and HMS Inflexible sink German cruisers SMS Scharnhorst and SMS Gneisenau
24 January 1915: Battle of Dogger Bank. First battle between Dreadnought type warships. Battlecruisers HMS Lion, HMS Tiger, HMS Princess Royal, HMS New Zealand, and HMS Indomitable intercept a German raiding force that includes three battlecruisers. The German armored cruiser SMS Blücher is sunk, but communication errors allow the German battlecruisers to escape. The British flagship, HMS Lion, is seriously damaged.
19 Feb 1915-1916: Dardanelles (Gallipoli) campaign.
- 19 Feb 1915:The Gallipoli campaign opens with the bombardment of the Turkish fortifications guarding the Dardanelles by British and French battleships, mostly obsolete pre-dreadnoughts.
- 18 Mar 1915: The battleship force attempts to force the straights, but mines and Turkish artillery sink three old battleships, HMS Ocean, HMS Irresistible, and French pre-dreadnought Bouvet, and badly damaged several others. The fleet is forced to withdraw. Ironically had the attack been quickly resumed it almost certainly would have succeeded, for the Turks had run out of ammunition.
- 25 Apr 1915: The British staged an amphibious invasion with the objective of neutralizing the now rearmed Turkish fortifications. Many older battleships are used for shore bombardment.
- 25 May 1915: First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill is forced to resign due to the heavy losses in the Dardanelles campaign.
31 May - 1 Jun 1916: Battle of Jutland. This was the largest naval battle to date, and the second largest of all time. It was the largest battleship action ever. The British lose more ships than they sink: three battlecruisers, HMS Invincible, HMS Inflexible, and HMS Queen Mary while sinking only the battlecruiser SMS Lützow and the pre-dreadnought SMS Pommern. The Germans claim a tactical victory, but the battle is a strategic victory for the Royal Navy, which forced the High Seas Fleet had to retreat, and maintained their blockade of Germany.
1918: German Navy mutinies
11 November 1918: Armistace signed.

14 Nov 1918: German fleet interned at the British naval base at Scapa Flow.

21 June 1919: The Grand Scuttle. The bulk of the German fleet, interned at the British naval base at Scapa Flow, scuttles itself in the (justified?) belief that their ships would be siezed by the British.

Washington Treaty

12 Nov 1921-6 Feb 1922 Washington Conference on naval arms limitation.
6 Feb 1922: The Washington Treaty signed. New battleship construction stopped, many old battleships scrapped.

1 September 1939-2 Sep 1945: World War II. Expensive victory for Great Britain.

14 Sep 1939: German U-47 sinks HMS Royal Oak at Scapa Flow.
17 Sep 1939: Scharnhorst and Gneisenau sink British carrier HMS Glorious.
December 1939: Battle of the River Platte: Graf Spee fights light cruisers HMS Ajax and HMS Achilles and heavy cruiser HMS Exeter, then retreats to Montevideo, Uruguay.
17 December 1939: Graf Spee scuttles near Montevideo, Uruguay, to avoid fighting a now-superior British force.
9 April 1940: HMS Renown engages German battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. The German battlecruisers retreat.
13 April 1940: Second Battle of Narvik: HMS Warspite and her accompanying destroyers sink a U-64 and eight German destroyers in the restricted waters of Vestfjord .
3 Jul 1940: Mers-el-Khebir: British battleships HMS Valiant and HMS Resolution and battlecruiser HMS Hood attack French battleships and battlecruisers in port to prevent their capture by the Germans. Provence and Dunkerque damaged, Bretagne sunk. Strasbourg escapes.
9 Jul 1940: Battle of Calabria: HMS Warspite, HMS Malaya and HMS Royal Sovereign fight Italian battleships Guilio Cesare and Conte di Cavour. Italian ships retreat.
24-25 Sep 1940: Battle of Dakar: Arguably the most justifiably forgotten battleship action ever. British battleships HMS Barham and HMS Resolution fail to seriously damage the Richelieu. Richelieu returns fire, slightly damaging HMS Barham and more seriously damaging herself.
March 1941: Battle of Cape Matapan: HMS Warspite, HMS Barham, HMS Valiant and several other ships fight Italian forces. Three Italian heavy cruisers, Zara, Pola and Fiume, are sunk, but the Italian battleship Vittorio Veneto escapes.
24 May 1941: Battle of the Denmark Strait: The German battleship Bismarck and heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen sink HMS Hood and damage HMS Prince of Wales. Bismarck is slightly, but signifiantly damaged by HMS Prince of Wales.
27 May 1941: German battleship Bismarck sunk by a combination of gunfire from battleships HMS King George V and HMS Rodney, torpedoes from HMS Dorsetshire, and Bismarck's own scuttling charges.
25 Nov 1941: HMS Barham sunk by U-331 in the Mediterranean.
10 December 1941:HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse are sunk by Japanese torpedo bombers near Singapore.
26 Dec 1943: Battle of the North Cape: Scharnhorst sunk by gunfire from battleship HMS Duke of York, heavy cruiser HMS Norfolk, and light cruiser HMS Belfast, and also by torpedoes from light cruiser HMS Jamaica
6 May 1945: Admiral Dönitz surrenders for Germany, ending the European part of World War II.
2 Sep 1945: Japanese surrender at Tokyo Bay, finally ending World War II. HMS King George V is present.

25 Apr 1946: HMS Vanguard, the last British battleship, is commissioned.
1960: HMS Vanguard, the last British battleship, is scrapped.

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Class	Pennant Number	Name	Keel Laid	Launched	First Commissioned	Builder	Last De- Commissioned	Fate
Pre-Dreadnoughts

Sans Pareil		Sans Pareil	21 Apr 1885	9 May 1887	8 Jul 1891	Thames	1907?	Scrapped, 1907.
Sans Pareil		Victoria	23 Apr 1885	9 Apr 1887	19 Mar 1890	Elswick	22 Jun 1893	Sunk in collision with HMS Camperdown, 22 Jun 1893.
Trafalgar		Nile	8 Apr 1886	27 Mar 1888	30 Jun 1891	Pembroke	1911?	Scrapped, 1912
Trafalgar		Trafalgar	18 Jan 1886	20 Sep 1887	2 Apr 1890	Portsmouth	1911?	Scrapped, 1911.
Royal Sovereign		Empress of India	9 Jul 1889	7 May 1891	4 Sep 1893	Pembroke	1911?	Target ship, sunk Nov 1913.
		Ramilles	11 Aug 1890	1 Mar 1892	17 Oct 1893	Thomsons	Aug 1911?	Scrapped, 1913.
		Repulse	1 Jan 1890	27 Feb 1892	21 Apr 1894	Pembroke	Aug 1910?	Scrapped, 1911.
		Resolution	14 Jun 1890	28 May 1892	5 Dec 1893	Palmers	Aug 1911?	Scrapped, 1914.
		Revenge	12 Feb 1891	3 Nov 1892	22 Mar 1894	Palmers	Feb 1919?	Scrapped, 1919.
		Royal Oak	29 May 1890	5 Nov 1892	14 Jan 1896?	Lairds	Aug 1913?	Scrapped, 1914.
		Royal Sovereign	30 Jul 1889	26 Feb 1891	31 May 1892	Portsmouth	1913?	Scrapped, 1913.
Hood		Hood	12 Aug 1889	30 Jul 1891	1 Jun 1893	Chatham	Mar 1911?	Sunk as block ship, 1914.
Centurion		Barfleur	12 Oct 1890	10 Aug 1892	Jul 1894	Chatham		Scrapped, 1910.
Centurion		Centurion	30 Mar 1890	3 Aug 1892	14 Feb 1894	Portsmouth		Scrapped, 1910.
Renown		Renown	Feb 1893	8 May 1895	Jun 1897	Pembroke		Scrapped, 1914.
Majestic		Majestic	Feb 1894	31 Jan 1895	12 Dec 1895	Portsmouth		War loss: Torpedoed by U.21, 27 May 1915.
		Magnificent	18 Dec 1893	19 Dec 1894	12 Dec 1895	Chatham		Scrapped, 1921.
		Hannibal	1 May 1894	28 Apr 1896	10 May 1898	Pembroke		Scrapped, 1920.
		Prince George	10 Sep 1894	22 Aug 1895	26 Jun 1896	Portsmouth		Scrapped, 1921.
		Victorious	28 May 1894	19 Oct 1895	4 Nov 1896	Chatham		Scrapped, 1923.
		Jupiter	26 Apr 1894	18 Nov 1895	8 Jun 1897	Clydebank		Scrapped, 1919?
		Mars	2 Jun 1894	30 Mar 1896	8 Jun 1897	Lairds		Scrapped, 1921.
		Caesar	25 Mar 1895	2 Sep 1896	13 Jan 1898	Portsmouth		Scrapped, 1921.
		Illustrious	11 Mar 1895	2 Sep 1896	May 1898	Chatham		Scrapped, 1920.
Canopus		Canopus	4 Jan 1897	12 Oct 1897	5 Dec 1899	Portsmouth		Scrapped, 1920.
		Glory	1 Dec 1896	11 Mar 1899	Nov 1900	Lairds		Scrapped, 1922.
		Albion	3 Dec 1896	21 Jun 1898	Jun 1900	Thames		Scrapped 1919.
		Goliath	4 Jan 1897	23 Mar 1898	27 Mar 1900	Chatham		War losss: Torpedoed by Turkish PTB, 13 May 1915
		Ocean	15 Feb 1897	5 Jul 1898	Feb 1900	Devonport		War loss: Sunk by mine and gunfire, 18 Mar 1915.
		Vengeance	23 Aug 1898	24 Jul 1899	Apr 1902	Vickers		Scrapped, 1921.
Formidable		Formidable	21 Mar 1898	17 Nov 1898	10 Oct 1901	Portsmouth		War loss: Torpedoed by U.24, 1 Jan 1915
		Irresistible	11 Apr 1898	15 Dec 1898	4 Feb 1902	Chatham		War loss: Sunk by mine and gunfire, 18 Mar 1915
		Implacable	13 Jul 1898	11 Mar 1899	10 Sep 1901	Devonport		Scrapped 1921
London		Bulwark	20 Mar 1899	18 Oct 1899	18 Mar 1902	Devonport		Destroyed by internal explosion, 26 Nov 1914
		London	8 Dec 1898	21 Dec 1899	7 Jun 1902	Portsmouth		Scrapped 1920.
		Venerable	2 Jan 1899	2 Nov 1899	12 Nov 1902	Chatham		Scrapped?
		Queen	12 Mar 1902	8 Mar 1902	7 Apr 1904	Devonport		Scrapped 1920.
		Prince of Wales	20 Mar 1901	25 Mar 1902	18 May 1904	Chatham		Scrapped 1920.
Duncan		Duncan	10 Jul 1899	21 Mar 1901	3 Oct 1903	Thames		Scrapped 1920
		Cornwallis	19 Jul 1899	13 Jul 1901	Feb 1904	Thames		War loss: Torpedoed by U.32, 9 Jan 1917
		Exmouth	10 Aug 1899	31 Aug 1901	Jun 1903	Lairds		Scrapped 1920
		Russell	11 Mar 191899	19 Feb 1901	Feb 1903	Palmers		War loss: Struck mine, 27 Apr 1916
		Albermarle	8 Jan 1900	5 Mar 1901	Nov 1903	Chatham		Scrapped 1920
		Montagu	23 Nov 1899	5 Mar 1901	Oct 1903	Devonport		Wrecked (ran aground in fog), 30 May 1906
King Edward VII		King Edward VII	8 Mar 1902	23 Jul 1903	7 Feb 1905	Devonport		War loss: Struck mine, 6 Jan 1916
		Dominion	23 May 1902	25 Aug 1903	5 Aug 1905	Vickers		Scrapped 1921
		Commonwealth	17 Jun 1902	13 May 1903	9 Apr 1905	Fairfield		Scrapped 1921
		Hindustan	25 Oct 1902	19 Dec 1903	22 Aug 1905	Clydebank		Scrapped 1921
		New Zealand (Zealandia)	9 Feb 1903	4 Feb 1904	11 Jul 1905	Portsmouth		Scrapped 1921
		Africa	27 Jan 1904	20 May 1905	Nov 1906	Chatham		Scrapped 1920
		Britannia	4 Feb 1904	10 Dec 1904	Oct 1906	Portsmouth		War loss: Torpedoed by UB.50, 9 Nov 1918
		Hibernia	6 Jan 1904	17 Jun 1905	2 Jan 1907	Devonport		Scrapped 1921
Constitution		Swiftsure	26 Feb 1902	12 Jan 1903	Jun 1904	Elswick		Scrapped 1920.
Constitution		Triumph	26 Feb 1902	15 Jan 1903	Jun 1904	Elswick		War loss: Torpedoed Apr 1916.
Lord Nelson		Lord Nelson	18 May 1905	4 Sep 1906	Dec1908	Palmers		Scrapped
Lord Nelson		Agamenon	15 May 1905	23 Jun 1906	25 Jun 1908	Beardmore		Scrapped
Dreadnoughts
Dreadnought		Dreadnought	2 Oct 1905	10 Feb 1906	3 Dec 1906	Portsmouth	Feb 1919	Scrapped 1921-23
Bellerophon		Bellerophon	3 Dec 1906	27 Jul 1907	20 Feb 1909	Portsmouth	1919	Scrapped
		Superb	6 Feb 1907	7 Nov 1907	9 Jun 1909	Armstrong	1919	Scrapped 1922-23
		Temeraire	1 Jan 1907	24 8 1907	15 May 1909	Devonport		Training ship, 1919. Scrapped 1922-23.
Collingwood		Collingwood	3 Fen 1907	7 Nov 1908	19 Apr 1910	Devonport		Scrapped 1922-23
		St. Vincent	30 Dec 1907	10 Sep 1908	3 May 1909	Portsmouth		Scrapped 1922
		Vanguard	2 Apr 1908	22 Feb 1909	1 Mar 1910	Vickers		Destroyed by internal explosion, 9 Jul 1917
Neptune		Neptune	19 Jan 1909	30 Sep 1909	11 Nov 1911	Portsmouth		Scrapped 1923
Colossus		Colossus	6 Jul 1909	9 Apr 1910	8 Aug 1911	Scotts		Scrapped 1922.
Colossus		Hercules	30 Jul 1909	10 May 1910	31 Jul 1911	Palmers		Scrapped 1920
Orion		Orion	29 Nov 1909	20 Aug 1910	2 Jan 1912	Devonport		Scrapped 1923
		Conqueror	5 Apr 1910	1 May 1911	25 Feb 1913	Beardmore		Scrapped 1923
		Monarch	1 Apr 1910	30 Mar 1911	6 Apr 1912	Armstrong		Sunk as target 20 Jan 1925
		Thunderer	13 Apr 1910	2 Feb 1911	15 Jun 1912	Thames		Cadet ship 1920-26. Scrapped 1927
Erin		Erin	6 Dec 1911	3 Sep 1913	22 Aug 1914	Vickers		Scrapped 1923
Agincourt		Agincourt	25 Sep 1911	22 Jan 1913	20 Aug 1914	Armstrong, Newcastle		Scrapped 1922-24
Almirante Lattore		Canada (originally and later Almirante Lattore)	27 Nov 1911	27 Nov 1913	30 Sep 1915	Armstrong		Returned to Chilean ownership Apr 1920. Scrapped 1959
Almirante Lattore		India (formerly Almirante Cochrane)	22 Jan 1913	8 Jun 1918	13 Apr 1920	Armstrong, Newcastle		Completed as carrier HMS Eagle. War Loss: Sunk by U-73 11 Aug 1942
King George V		King George V	16 Jan 1911	9 Oct 1911	16 Nov 1912	Portsmouth		Scrapped 1927
		Centurion	16 Jan 1911	18 Nov 1911	22 May 1913	Devonport		Scuttled Jun 1944 off Normandy
		Audacious	23 Mar 1911	14 Sep 1912	21 Oct 1913	Cammell, Birkenhead		War loss: Struck mine 27 Oct 1914.
		Ajax	27 Feb 1911	21 Mar 1912	31 Oct 1913	Scotts		Scrapped 1927
Iron Duke		Iron Duke	12 Jan 1912	12 Oct 1912	10 Mar 1914	Portsmouth		Converted to gunnery training ship 1931-32. Scrapped 1946
		Benbow	30 May 1912	12 Nov 1913	7 Oct 1914	Beardmore		Scrapped 1931
		Emperor of India	31 May 1912	27 Nov 1913	12 Oct 1914	Vickers		Scrapped 1931-32
		Marlborough	25 Jan 1912	24 Oct 1912	2 Jun 1914	Devonport		Scrapped 1932
Queen Elizabeth	I-00	Queen Elizabeth	27 Oct 1912	16 Oct 1913	19 Jan 1915	Portsmouth		Scrapped 1948
	I-01	Valiant	31 Jan 1913	4 Nov 1914	19 Feb 1916	Fairfield		Scrapped 1948
	I-03	Warspite	31 Oct 1912	26 Nov 1913	19 Mar 1915	Devonport	Mar 1946	Broke tow and ran aground 23 Apr 1947, scrapped to 1956
	I-04	Barham	24 Feb 1913	31 Oct 1914	19 Oct 1915	J. Brown		War loss: Sunk 25 Nov 1941 by U-331
	I-01	Malaya	20 Oct 1913	18 Mar 1915	19 Feb 1916	Armstrong, Newcastle		Scrapped
		Agincourt	-	-	-	Devonport		Cancelled
Royal Oak	I-08	Royal Oak	15 Jan 1914	17 Nov 1914	1 May 1916	Devonport		War loss: Sunk by U-47 at Scapa Flow 14 October 1939
	I-05	Royal Sovereign	15 Jan 1914	29 Apr 1915	1 May 16	Portsmouth		Scrapped
	I-07	Ramilles	12 Nov 1913	12 Sep 1916	1 Nov 1917	C-L		Scrapped
	I-06	Revenge	22 Dec 1913	29 May 15	1 Mar 1916	Vickers		Scrapped
	I-09	Resolution	29 Nov 1913	14 Jan 1915	30 Dec 1916	Palmers		Scrapped
		Repulse	-	-	-	Palmers		Re-ordered as battlecruiser
		Renown	-	-	-	Fairfield		Re-ordered as battlecruiser
		Resistance	-	-	-	-		Cancelled.
N3		St. Andrew(?)	-	-	-	-		Cancelled Feb 1922 by Washington Treaty
		St. George(?)	-	-	-	-
		St. David(?)	-	-	-	-
		St. Patrick(?)	-	-	-	-
Nelson	I-28	Nelson	28 Dec 1922	2 Sep 1925	10 Sep 1927	Armstrong, Newcastle		Scrapped
Nelson	I-29	Rodney	28 Dec 1922	17 Dec 1925	10 Nov 1927	C-L		Scrapped
King George V	I-41	King George V	2 Jan 1937	21 Feb 1939	11 Dec 1940	Vickers		Scrapped
	I-53	Prince of Wales	2 Jan 1937	3 May 39	31 Mar 1941	C-L		War loss: Sunk by Japanese torpedo bombers 10 Dec 1941
	I-17	Duke of York	5 May 37	28 Feb 1940	4 Nov 1941	J. Brown		Scrapped
	I-72	Anson	20 Jul 1937	24 Feb 1940	22 Jun 1942	Swan Hunter		Scrapped
	I-32	Howe	1 Jun 1937	9 Apr 1940	29 Aug 1942	Fairfield		Scrapped
Lion	I-27	Lion	4 Jul 1939	-	-	Armstrong, Newcastle		Construction stopped Oct 1939. Cancelled 27 Mar 1944.
	I-36	Temeraire	1 Jun 1939	-	-	C-L		Construction stopped Oct 1939. Cancelled 27 Mar 1944.
	I-49	Thunderer	-	-	-	J. Brown	-	Construction stopped Oct 1939. Cancelled 1941
	I-45	Conqureror	-	-	-	Fairfield	-	Construction stopped Oct 1939. Cancelled 1941
Vanguard	I-23	Vanguard	2 Oct 1941	30 Nov 1944	25 Apr 1946	J. Brown		Scrapped
Battlecruisers
Invincible		Invincible	2 Apr 1906	13 Apr 1907	20 Mar 1909	Elswick		War loss: Exploded after being hit by gunfire from Lützow, 31 May 1916
		Indomitable	1 Mar 1906	16 Mar 1907	25 Jun 1908	Fairfield	31 Mar 1920	Scrapped 1923
		Inflexible	5 Feb 1906	26 Jun 1907	20 Oct 1908	Clydebank	31 Mar 1920	Scrapped 1923
Indefatigable		Indefatigable	23 Feb 1909	28 Oct 1909	24 Feb 1911	Devonport		War loss: Exploded after being hit by gunfire from von der Tann, 31 May 1916
		Australia	23 Jun 1910	25 Oct 1911	6/??/1913	J. Brown		Sunk to comply with Washington Treaty, 1924
		New Zealand	20 Jun 1910	1 Jul 1911	11/??/1912	Fairfield		Scrapped
Lion		Lion	29 Nov 1909	6 Aug 1910	4 Jun 1912	Devonport		Scrapped
		Queen Mary	6 Mar 1911	20 Mar 1912	1/??/1913?	Palmers		War loss: Exploded after being hit by gunfire from Seydlitz and Derfflinger, 31 May 1916
		Princess Royal	2 May 1910	29 Apr 1911	14 Nov 1912	Vickers		Scrapped
Tiger		Tiger	20 Jun 1912	15 Dec 1913	3 Oct 1914	J. Brown	Mar 1931	Scrapped 1932
Tiger		Leopard						Cancelled
Repulse		Repulse	25 Jan 1915	8 Jan 1916	18 Aug 1916	J. Brown		War loss: Sunk by Japanese torpedo bombers 10 Dec 1941
Repulse		Renown	25 Jan 1915	4 Mar 1916	20 Sep 1916	Fairfield		Scrapped
Courageous		Courageous	28 Mar 1915	5 Feb 1916	30 Jan 1917	Elswick		Converted to carrier 1928. War loss: Sunk by U-29, 17 Sep 1939.
Courageous		Glorious	1 May 1915	20 Apr 1916	1/??/1917	Harland & Wolff		Converted to carrier 1930. War loss: Sunk by gunfire from Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, 8 Jun 1940.
Furious		Furious	6/??/1915	15 Aug 1916	7/??/1917	Elswick	1944	Converted to carrier 1918. Scrapped
Incomparable		Incomparable	-	-	-	-	-	Project cancelled 1915
Hood		Hood	1 Sep 1916	22 Aug 1918	1 Mar 1920	J. Brown		War loss: Exploded during engagement with Bismarck, 24 May 1941
		Rodney	-	-	-	Fairfield	-	Cancelled 1917
		Anson	-	-	-	Armstrong, Whitworth
		Howe	-	-	-	C-L
G3		Invincible(?)	-	-	-	Swan Hunter	-	Cancelled Feb 1922 by Washington Treaty
		Inflexible(?)	-	-	-	Beardmore
		Indomitable(?)	-	-	-	Fairfield
		Indefatigable(?)	-	-	-	J. Brown,

Key to builders:
Armstrong	Armstrong, Whitworth & Co. Elswick
Armstrong	Sir W.G. Armstrong, Newcastle
Beardmore	W. Beardmore & Co. Glasgow
J. Brown	John Brown & Co., Clydebank
Cammell-Laird	Cammell-Laird, Birkenhead
Chatham	Chatham Dockyard
Devonport	Devonport Dockyard
Fairfield	Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co., Govan, Glasgow
Harland & Wolff	Harland & Wolff, Belfast
Palmers	Palmers, Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Greenock
Portsmouth	Portsmouth Dockyard
Scotts	Scotts Shipbuilding & Ironworks, Greenock
Swan-Hunter	Swan Hunter, Newcastle
Thames	Thames Iron Works, Blackwall (Bankrupt 1912)
Vickers	Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness