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[mlees]

Please ID this ship:

[Martti]

British Majestic-class pre-dreadnought battleship?

[mlees]

No, but close.

[Monter_Trismegistos]

Maybe something earlier? Revenge/Redoubtable?

[mlees]

Not as old as the "Royal Sovereign" class, MT...

You guys have the right country, right decade.

[Martti]

Canopus-class?

[RBWhite]

HMS Royal Oak?

[RBWhite]

Martti

Did some more google, I think you nailed it

HMS Canopus

[mlees]

Nope. Sorry RBWhite, but there are some detail differences I might point out...

1) Canopus smokestacks are in tandem, in the mystery ship they are side by side.

2) Canopus has casemate guns sponsoned low near the waterline, none are evident in the mystery ship.

Here is a better shot of the mystery ship:

[Martti]

HMS Renown.

[RBWhite]

HMS Russell?

[Monter_Trismegistos]

HMS Hannibal?

EDIT: Well, now hard to guess... also HMS Barfleur and HMS Centurion are quite simmillar but had different foremast.


But also simillar is HMS Renown....



Soo, my answer is HMS Renown. (at first I thought that Renown was one of Royal Sovereign class)

[RBWhite]

Or the HMS Exmouth

[RBWhite]

Okay[:)]

It's the stacks that are the confusing part of the image

[mlees]

HMS Renown it is.

I have seen two scources state that Renown is a sole class unit, constructed right after the Centurion class.

HMS Renown 1st Class Battleship of 1896 and the only ship of the class, the cost of the ship was £746,247. In 1898, she left Britain for the North American Station as flagship to Sir John Fisher, the Commander in Chief. She was also used as flagship to Sir John Fisher as Commander in Chief, Mediterranean Fleet from 1899-1902. In February 1905 joined the reserve, converted as a royal yacht to carry the Prince and Princess of Wales to India April - October 1905. Once again rejoining reserve in May 1906. Joining Home Fleet 4th division in 1907 and in October 1909 became a tender to HMS Victory. Involved in minor collision with water carrier Aid on 26th September 1911 and January 1913 put into care and maintenance and towed to Motherbank. Sold to the breakers April 1914.

Carried 4 x 10-inch guns as main armament. Fisher's image of an ideal warship (fast, maneuverable, and hard hitting even at the expense of armor) may have had it's genesis from serving on this vessel.