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<div name=fredbot:career>{{ShipCareer|fullname=H.M.S. ''Irresistible'' (1898)|fate2=in Dardanelles
|comp=Oct, 1901{{BurtBritishBattleships1889|p. 191}}
|comm=4 Feb, 1902
|fatedate=18 Mar, 1915{{DittColl|p. 30}}
|order=1897-98 Programme{{Conways1860|p. 36}}
|name=Irresistible
|launch=15 Dec, 1898{{DittColl|p. 30}}
|builder=[[Chatham Royal Dockyard]]{{DittColl|p. 30}}
|laid=11 Apr, 1898{{UKDockyardExpenseAccounts1902|p. 26}}
|fate=Mined
|pend=64 (1914){{DittColl|p. 30}}
|fg=white|bg=crimson}}</div name=fredbot:career>
==Service==
''Irresistible'' passed into the Fleet Reserve on 3 February, 1902.{{UKDockyardExpenseAccounts1902|p. 26}}

She recommissioned at Portsmouth on 27 March 1913 for service with Second Fleet.{{NLApr14|p. 332}}

Eleven men died when she sank, with two more to succumb later.{{KindellROH2|p. 78}}

==Captains==
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=George Morris Henderson|nick=George M. Henderson|appt=4 February, 1902<ref>Henderson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/18.}}  f. 293.</ref>|end=30 November, 1904<ref>Henderson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/18.}}  f. 293.</ref>|precBy=New Command}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Sackville Hamilton Carden|nick=Sackville H. Carden|appt=25 November, 1904<ref>Carden Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/38.|D7578800}}  f. 186.</ref>|end=20 December, 1905<ref>Carden Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/38.|D7578800}}  f. 186.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Reginald Hugh Spencer Bacon|nick=Reginald H. S. Bacon|appt=20 December, 1905<ref>Bacon Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42}}.  f. 262.</ref>|end=2 July, 1906<ref>Bacon Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 262.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Lionel Grant Tufnell|nick=Lionel G. Tufnell|appt=20 June, 1906<ref>Tufnell Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/39.}}  f. 1338.</ref>|end=27 May, 1907<ref>Tufnell Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/39.}}  f. 1338.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Hugh Pigot Williams|nick=Hugh P. Williams|appt=27 May, 1907<ref>Williams Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/39}}.  f. 1409.</ref>|end=1 May, 1908<ref>Williams Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/39}}.  f. 1409.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Cresswell John Eyres|nick=Cresswell J. Eyres|appt=1 May, 1908{{NLOct08|p. 333}}|end=5 April, 1910<ref>Eyres Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/42.|}} f. 9.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Edmund Hyde Smith|nick=Edmund H. Smith|appt=5 April, 1910<ref>Smith Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 295.</ref>|end=1 June, 1910<ref>Smith Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 295.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Cunningham Robert de Clare Foot|nick=Cunningham R. de C. Foot|appt=28 February, 1911<ref>Foot Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 109/218.</ref>{{NLApr11|p. 333}}|end=26 March, 1912<ref>Foot Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 109/218.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Maurice Woollcombe|nick=Maurice Woollcombe|appt=27 March, 1912<ref>Woolcombe Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}} f. 504.</ref>{{NLAug12|p. 334}}|end=26 March, 1913<ref>Woolcombe Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}} f. 504.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Noel Grant|nick=Noel Grant|appt=26 March, 1913{{NLApr14|p. 332}}}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Stanhope Hawke|nick=The Hon. Stanhope Hawke|appt=15 April, 1914{{NLDec14|p. 339}}<ref>Hawke Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/20.}}  f. 433.</ref>|end=14 February, 1915<ref>Hawke Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/20.}}  f. 433.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Douglas Lionel Dent|nick=Douglas L. Dent|appt=4 January, 1915<ref>Dent Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 50.</ref>|end=18 March, 1915<ref>Dent Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 50.</ref>|succBy=Vessel Lost|note=vessel lost under his command}}
</div name=fredbot:officeCapt>

==Radio==
She likely was completed with or was slated to receive a W/T kit soon after completion, based on her sisters were completed slightly earlier and were so designated.{{ARTS1901|pp. 111-112}}

==See Also==
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{{WP|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Irresistible_(1898)}}
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==Footnotes==
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==Bibliography==
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*{{UKDockyardExpenseAccounts1902}}
*{{DittColl}}
*{{ParkesBritishBattleships}}
*{{BattleshipsWWI}}
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