H.M.S. Magnificent (1894)
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Built By: | Chatham Royal Dockyard |
Laid down: | 18 December, 1893 |
Launched: | 19 December, 1894 |
Commissioned: | 12 December, 1895 |
Sold: | 9 May, 1921 |
Fate: | Scrapped |
H.M.S. Magnificent was a Majestic class battleship of the British Royal Navy, launched in 1894 and sold for scrap in 1921. She was the third Royal Navy warship to bear the name.
Career
Pendant Numbers.[1] | |
1914 | D.13 |
September, 1915 | P.83 |
January, 1918 | P.3A |
Magnicent was commissioned at Chatham on 12 December, 1895, by Captain Charles J. Barlow, with the crew of the Empress of India.[2]
Magnificent paid off on 8 August, 1917.[3]
Radio
By the end of 1901, she was fitted or due to receive a Marconi W/T set.[4]
- Captain Frederic A. Whitehead, 1 August, 1914.[5]
Footnotes
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. p. 29.
- ↑ "Naval & Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Friday, 13 December, 1895. Issue 34759, col B, pg. 7.
- ↑ The Navy List (November, 1917). p. 395k.
- ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1901. p. 111.
- ↑ The Navy List (December, 1914). p. 352.
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