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HMS ''Exmouth'' was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the Royal Navy. ''Exmouth'' was laid down by Laird Brothers at Birkenhead in August 1899, launched in August 1901 and completed in May 1903. She served as a flagship for various fleets including the Mediterranean Fleet, the Channel Fleet and the Atlantic Fleet from her commissioning in 1903 until the start of the First World War in 1914. During this time she underwent several refits, two of which occurred in Malta. Originally she was to join the 6th Battle Squadron and serve in the Channel Fleet, but this squadron was temporarily disbanded and she joined the 3rd Battle Squadron at Scapa Flow instead. ''Exmouth'' was then moved to the newly reformed 6th Squadron in late 1914. Throughout the First World War ''Exmouth'' moved between various squadrons before finishing her career in the East Indies Station starting in March 1917. She performed convoy escort duties in the Indian Ocean between Colombo and Bombay before returning to the United Kingdom, calling at The Cape and Sierra Leone. She arrived at Devonport in August 1917, and paid off to provide crews for antisubmarine vessels. ''Exmouth'' remained in reserve at Devonport until April 1919, and was used as an accommodation ship beginning in January 1918. She was placed on the sale list in April 1919 and sold for scrapping to Forth Shipbreaking Company on 15 January 1920. ==Technical Description== HMS ''Exmouth'' was laid down by Laird Brothers at Birkenhead on 10 August 1899. She was floated out on 31 August 1901, when she was named by Lady Alice Stanley, wife of Lord Stanley, Financial Secretary to the War Office, who afterwards gave a speech. She arrived at the Nore in May 1902, and was armed and completed for sea at Chatham Dockyard. After delays due to labour problems, she was completed in May 1903.〔Burt, pp. 198, 212〕 ''Exmouth'' and her five sisters of the ''Duncan'' class were ordered in response to large French and Russian building programmes,〔 including an emphasis on fast battleships in the Russian programme;〔Gibbons, p. 159〕 they were designed as smaller, more lightly armoured, and faster versions of the preceding .〔 As it turned out, the Russian ships were not as heavily armed as initially feared, and the ''Duncan''s proved to be quite superior in their balance of speed, firepower, and protection.〔 Armour layout was similar to that of , with reduced thickness in the barbettes and belt.〔 The ''Duncan''s had machinery of more than the ''Formidable''s and ''London''s and were the first British battleships with 4-cylinder triple-expansion engines. They also had a modified hull form to improve speed. The ships had a reputation as good steamers, with a designed speed of and an operational speed of ,〔 good steering at all speeds, and an easy roll. They were the fastest battleships in the Royal Navy when completed, and the fastest pre-dreadnoughts ever built other than the and .〔Burt, p. 202〕 They had the same armament as and a smaller displacement than the ''Formidable''s and ''London''s.〔 Like all pre-dreadnoughts, ''Exmouth'' was outclassed by the dreadnought battleships that began to appear in 1906, but she nonetheless continued to perform front-line duties up through the early part of World War I. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「HMS Exmouth (1901)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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