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HMS Canopus (1897)

HMS Canopus during World War I

Career (UnitedKingdom)

Name: HMS Canopus

Namesake: The star Canopus

Ordered: 1896 Programme

Builder: Portsmouth Dockyard

Cost:921,316

[1]

Laid down: 4 January 1897

Launched: 12 October 1897

Completed: 5 December 1899

Commissioned: 5 December 1899

Decommissioned: April 1919

Fate: Sold for scrapping 18 February 1920

General characteristics

Class & type: Canopus-classpre-dreadnoughtbattleship

Displacement: 12,950 tons

Length: 431 ft (131.4 m)

Beam: 74 ft (22.6 m)

Draught: 26 ft (7.9 m)

Propulsion: 2 shafts, water tube boilers, vertical triple expansion steam engines, 15,400 ihp (11,500 kW)

Speed: 18 knots (33 km/h)

Complement: 750

Armament: 4 BL 12-inch (304.8 mm) 35-caliber Mk VIII guns[2]

12 QF 6-inch (152.4 mm) 40-caliber guns[2]

10 12-pounder quick-firing guns[3]

6 x 3-pounder guns

[3]

4 18-inch (450-mm) torpedo tubes (underwater)
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Armour: Belt 6 inches (152 mm)

Bulkheads 10-6 inches (254-152 mm)

Barbettes 12 inches (305 mm)

Gun houses 8 inches (203 mm)

Casemates 6 inches (152 mm)

Conning tower 12 inches (305 mm)

decks 2 inches-1 inch (51 mm-25.4 mm)

HMS Canopus was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the British Royal Navy and the lead ship of the Canopus class.

At the beginning of the First world war she was involved in the search for the German East Asia Squadron of

Admiral Graf Spee. Too slow to follow Craddock's cruisers, she missed the Battle of Coronel, but fired the first shots

of the Battle of the Falklands. Transferred to the Mediterranean she to took part in the Naval operations in the

Dardanelles Campaign.

Technical Description

HMS Canopus was laid down at Portsmouth Dockyard on 4 January 1897, launched on 12 October 1897, and

completed on 5 December 1899.[1]

She was named after the ancient city of Canopus, Egypt, where the Battle of theNile took place.

[4]

Canopus and her five sister ships were designed for service in the Far East, where the new rising power Japan was

beginning to build a powerful and dangerous navy. These vesseles were intended to be able to transit the Suez Canal.

They were designed to be smaller (by about 2,000 tons), lighter, and faster than their predecessors, theMajestic-class

battleships, although they were slightly longer at 430 feet (131 m). In order to save weight, Canopus carried less

armour than theMajestics, although the change from Harvey armour in the Majestics to Krupp armour in Canopus

meant that the loss in protection was not as great as it might have been, Krupp armour having greater protective

value at a given weight than its Harvey equivalent.[5]

Still, the armour of the Canopus class was light enough to

make them almost second-class battleships. Part of their armour scheme included the use of a special 1-inch

(2.54 mm) armoured deck over the belt to defend against plunging fire by howitzers that France reportedly planned

to install on its ships, although this report proved to be false.[3]

The launch ofCanopus at Portsmouth Dockyard

on 13 October 1897.

Canopus had four 12-inch (305-mm) 35-calibre guns mounted in twin

turrets fore and aft; these guns were mounted in circular barbettes that

allowed all-around loading, although at a fixed elevation.[3]

The ships

also mounted twelve 6-inch (152-mm) 40-calibre guns (sponson

mounting allowing some of them to fire fore and aft) in addition to

smaller guns, and four 18-inch (450-mm) submerged torpedo tubes.[6]

The Canopus-class ships were the first British battleships with

water-tube boilers, which generated more power at less expense inweight compared with the cylindrical boilers used in previous ships. The new boilers led to the adoption of

fore-and-aft funnels, rather than the side-by-side funnel arrangement used in many previous British battleships. The

Canopus-class ships proved to be good steamers, consuming 10 tons of coal per hour at full speed,[7]

with a high

speed for battleships of their time, a full two knots faster than theMajestics.[8]
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Operational history

Pre-World War I

HMS Canopus commissioned at Portsmouth on 5 December 1899 for service in the Mediterranean Fleet. She

underwent a refit at Malta from December 1900 to June 1901, and ended her Mediterranean service in April 1903.

She paid off into the Reserve at Portsmouth on 25 April 1903[9]

While in reserve, Canopus was given an extensive refit by Cammel Laird at Birkenhead that lasted from May 1903

to June 1904. Returning to the commissioned Reserve at Portsmouth, she was rammed by the battleship HMS

Barfleurin Mount's Bay during maneuvers on 5 August 1904, suffering slight damage.[9]

Canopus returned to full commission on 9 May 1905 to relieve battleship HMS Centurion on the China Station and

had gotten as far as Colombo, Ceylon, on her outbound voyage when the United Kingdom and Japan ratified a treaty

of alliance. The alliance meant that the United Kingdom could have a reduced presence on the China Station and no

longer required battleships there, so Canopus was recalled from Colombo in June 1905 and thus was the only

Canopus-class battleship that did not serve on the China Station.[9]

Upon her return to the United Kingdom, Canopus began service in the Atlantic Fleet on 22 July 1905. In January

1906 she transferred to the Channel Fleet and was fitted with fire control later that year. She transferred again on 10

March 1907, this time to the Portsmouth Division of the Home Fleet at Portsmouth,[9]

where she was reduced to a

nucleus crew in May 1907[10]

and underwent a refit between November 1907 and April 1908.[9]

Her refit completed, Canopus commissioned on 28 April 1908 for service in the Mediterranean Fleet. In December

1909, she was reduced to service in the 4th Division, Home Fleet, undergoing a refit at Chatham Dockyard from July

1911 to April 1912 during this service.[9]

In May 1912 she went into reserve at the Nore to serve as the parent ship

for the 4th Division, Home Fleet, and in 1913 and 1914 was stationed at Pembroke Dock in Wales as part of the 3rd

Fleet.[10]

World War IAfter World War I broke out in August 1914, Canopus was commissioned on 7 August 1914

[10]for service in the

8th Battle Squadron in the Channel Fleet. She was detached from that duty on 21 August 1914 to operate from the

Cape Verde-Canary Islands Station to support the cruiser squadron there. On 1 September 1914, her sister ship HMS

Albion relieved her, and Canopus transferred to the South America Station, and arrived at the Abrolhos Rocks on 22

September 1914 to become guard ship there and provide support to the cruiser squadron of Rear Admiral

Christopher Cradock.

The search for Admiral von Spee's squadron

Canopus departed the Abrolhos Rocks on 8 October 1914 to assist Cradock's ships in searching for the German

squadron of Admiral Graf Maximilian von Spee, which was en route the South Atlantic from the Far East. Canopus

arrived at Stanley in the Falkland Islands on 18 October 1914, where she took up guard ship and escort duties.[9]

Informed by her Captain Heathcoat Grant that Canopus could make no more than 12 knots,[11]

Cradock left Canopus

behind when he took his cruiser squadron into the South Pacific to find the German squadron. She was 300 nautical

miles (556 km) south of Cradock when the German squadron destroyed his force and killed Cradock in the Battle of

Coronel on 1 November 1914. Canopus returned to Stanley, arriving there on 12 November 1914.

At Stanley, Canopus's crew set up defences against an attack by Graf Spee. Canopus herself was beached in the

mudflats[10]

in a position that allowed her to cover the entrance to the harbour and have a field of fire landward to

the southeast; to reduce her visibility, her topmasts were struck and she was camouflaged. An observation post was

established ashore on high ground and connected to the ship by telephone, allowing Canopus to use indirect fireagainst approaching ships. Some of her 12-pounder guns and a detachment of 70 Royal Marines were put ashore to
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defend Stanley and its environs.[9]

All was quiet until welcome reinforcements arrived at Stanley on 7 December 1914 in the form of the battlecruiser

squadron of Admiral Sir Frederic Doveton Sturdee. Early the next morning, 8 December 1914 Canopus's

observation post ashore spotted smoke on the horizon and soon identified the approaching ships as von Spee's.

Canopus opened indirect fire, firing the first shots of the Battle of the Falklands at the extreme range of 12,000 yards

(11 km); although von Spee was beyond the range of her guns she did succeed in hitting armored cruiser SMSGneisenau's after funnel with a 12-inch (305-mm) shell that ricocheted off the water.

[12]Under fire from Canopus

and spotting the tophampers of Sturdee's battlecruisers, von Spee called off his force's planned attack on the

Falklands' radio and coaling stations and ran, allowing Sturdee's force to raise steam and pursue the German

force.[13]

Sturdee gave chase and destroyed von Spee's squadron by the end of the day, but Canopus remained

behind at Stanley because of her low speed and missed the rest of the battle.[9]

Canopus left the Falklands on 18 December 1914 to return to her South American Station duties at the Abrolhos

Rocks.[9]

Dardanelles campaign

Canopus' 12-inch (305 mm) guns fire on Turkish defences in the

Dardanelles, March 1915. Photo by Ernest Brooks.

In February 1915, Canopus transferred to the

Mediterranean to take part in the Dardanelles

campaign. On 2 March 1915, she took part in the

second attack on the Ottoman Turkish entrance forts at

the Dardanelles, taking hits that tore off her main

topmast and damaged her after funnel and wardroom.

During the third landings on 4 March 1915, she

demonstrated off the Aegean coast. She covered the

bombardment of the forts by the dreadnought HMS

Queen Elizabeth on 8 March 1915, and covered

minesweepers attempting to sweep in minefields off

Kephes between 10 March 1915 and 12 March 1915.

She also took part in the major attack on the Narrows

forts on 18 March 1915.[9]

After that attack, Canopus and light cruiser HMS Talbotescorted the damaged battlecruiser HMS Inflexible from

Mudros to Malta, towingInflexible by the stern whenInflexible became unable to steam ahead during the latter part

of the voyage. Canopus then escorted troop conoys from Egypt.

Returning to the Dardanelles, Canopus took part in the blockade of Smyrna[10]

and covered a diversionary attack on

Bulair during the main landings on 25 April 1915. When her sister ship Albion became stranded on a sandbank off

Gaba Tepe under heavy fire on 22

23 May 1915, Canopus towed her free.[14]Canopus then underwent a refit at

Malta from May to June 1915.[9]
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Later operations

After the Dardanelles campaign ended with the evacuation of Allied forces from Gallipoli in January 1916, Canopus

was assigned to the British Eastern Mediterranean Squadron, where she served until she returned to the United

Kingdom in April 1916.[9]

Decommissioning and subsidiary duties

Canopus arrived at Plymouth on 22 April 1916, then paid off at Chatham to provide crews for antisubmarine vessels.

She remained at Chatham until April 1919, undergoing a refit there later in 1916,[9]

having her eight main-deck

6-inch (152-mm) guns replaced by four on the battery deck and her 12-pounder and 3-pounder guns replaced by light

antiaircraft weapons in 1917,[10]

and becoming an accommodation ship in February 1918.[9]

Disposal

Canopus was placed on the disposal list at Chatham in April 1919. She was sold for scrapping on 18 February 1920,

and arrived at Dover on 26 February 1920 to be scrapped.[9]

Notes

[1][1] Burt, p. 141

[2] Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 18601905, p. 36

[3] Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 18601905, p. 35

[4] Paine, pp. 2930. In that battle one of the prizes taken by Lord Nelson's fleet was the French shipFranklin, renamed by the British to HMS

Canopus.

[5] Pears:British Battleships 18921957,p.20 says that only the last ship, HMS Vengeance, had Krupp armour

[6] Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 18601905, p. 35, 36; Gibbons, p. 145

[7][7] Gibbons, p. 145

[8] Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 18601905, p. 35; Gibbons, p. 145

[9][9] Burt, p. 154

[10] Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906

1921, p. 7[11][11] Rober K. Massie, Castles of Steel, p. 217

[12] Burt, p. 154; Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 19061921, p. 7, says that Canopus scored no hits

[13] Some sources credit Canopus with spooking von Spee into running and thereby keeping Sturdee's ships from being caught in harbour by von

Spee, but others assert that von Spee ran because he knew that Sturdee's battlecruisers were in the harbour and outclassed his ships

[14][14] Burt reports the towing date as 23 May 1915 on p. 154 but as 24 May 1915 on p. 159

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