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HMS ''Royal Oak'' was a pre-dreadnought Royal Navy battleship of the seven-ship ''Royal Sovereign'' class. She was also the seventh ship to bear the name Royal Oak. ==Technical Characteristics== ''Royal Oak'' was ordered under the Naval Defence Act Programme of 7 March 1889〔Burt, p. 81〕 and built by Cammell Laird at Birkenhead at a cost of £977,996. She was launched on 5 November 1892. She arrived at Portsmouth on 29 October 1893 for fitting out for trials and completed trials in June 1894.〔 ''Royal Oak'' was the only ship of the ''Royal Sovereign'' class not fitted with steam pipes abaft her funnels.〔(HMS Royal Oak )〕 She displaced 14,150 tons and was 380 feet (115.8 m)long with a beam of 75 feet (22.9 m) and a draught of 27 feet 6 inches (8.4 m). She produced and could make . She carried a complement of over seven hundred. At the time of their completion, she and her sisters were considered the best all-around battleships in the world. Their greater freeboard enhanced their seagoing capabilities, enabling them to engage the enemy in rougher seas than previous designs, an important consideration in the North Sea and North Atlantic; however, they tended to roll heavily in certain conditions, and after HMS ''Resolution'' rolled badly in heavy seas in 1893 they were nicknamed the "Rolling Ressies," which stuck even though the problem was quickly corrected by the fitting of bilge keels. The ships were also faster and better armoured than their predecessors and carried a potent secondary armament but these features inevitably increased their weight, with previous battleships seldom topping 10,000 tonnes. () Her main armament consisted of four 13.5-inch (343-mm) guns in two barbettes with a secondary set of ten 6-inch (152-mm) guns. She also sported an array of smaller guns and seven 18-inch (457-mm) torpedo tubes. She had a partial belt of 18-inch- (457-mm-) thick steel. 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 Royal Oak (1892)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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