HMS Leviathan (1901)

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HMS Leviathan
Career Royal Navy Ensign
Name: HMS Leviathan
Builder: John Brown & Company
Launched: 3 July 1901
Fate: Sold 3 March 1920 for breaking up
General characteristics
Displacement: 14,100 tons
Length: 500 ft (150 m)
Beam: 71 ft (22 m)
Armament:

2 x BL 9.2-inch (233.7 mm) guns in single turrets
16 x BL 6-inch (152.4 mm) Mk VII guns in casemates along hull

12 x 12 pounder guns

HMS Leviathan was a 14,100-ton Drake-class armoured cruiser of the Royal Navy, and the third ship to bear the name.

Like her sisters, Leviathan served in the First World War, surviving it to be sold for breaking up on 3 March 1920 to Hughes Bolckow of Blyth.

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