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HMS Devastation (1871)
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&sq=crain_ford&lang=en&file=File:HMS_Devastation_(1871).jpg) HMS Devastation in 1896.
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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Devastation |
| Builder | Portsmouth Dockyard |
| Cost | £361,438 |
| Laid down | 12 November 1869 |
| Launched | 12 July 1871 |
| Commissioned | 19 April 1873 |
| Refit | 1879 and 1891–1892 |
| Stricken | 1907 |
| Fate | Scrapped, Thos. W. Ward, May 1908 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Devastation-class ironclad |
| Displacement | |
| Length | |
| Beam | 62 ft 3 in (18.97 m) |
| Height | 27 ft 6 in (8.38 m) |
| Draught | 26 ft 8 in (8.13 m) (mean) |
| Depth of hold | 18 ft (5.5 m) |
| Deck clearance | 4 ft 6 in (1.37 m) |
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| Range |
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| Complement | 329–410 |
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HMS Devastation was the first of two Devastation-class mastless turret ships built for the Royal Navy. This was the first class of ocean-going capital ships that did not carry sails, and the first in which the entire main armament was mounted on top of the hull rather than inside it.
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