Duncan Class Battleship - Ships in Class

Ships in Class

HMS Albemarle

Albemarle (after George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle) served in the Mediterranean Fleet (1903–1905), Channel Fleet (1905–1907), Atlantic Fleet (1907–1910), and Home Fleet (1910–1914). Her World War I service was in the Grand Fleet (1914), Channel Fleet (1914–1915), and Grand Fleet again (1915–1916), where she was badly damaged in November 1915 in heavy weather while in the Pentland Firth. She then served at Murmansk in North Russia (1916), including duty as an icebreaker at Arkhangelsk. She was in reserve 1916–1919 and was scrapped in 1919.

HMS Cornwallis

Cornwallis (after Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis) served in the Mediterranean Fleet (1904–1905), the Channel Fleet (1905–1907), the British Atlantic Fleet (1907–1909), the Mediterranean Fleet again (1909–1912), and the Home Fleet (1912–1914). Her World War I service was in the Grand Fleet (1914); in the Channel Fleet (1914); and in the West Ireland area (1914–1915). She took part in the Dardanelles Campaign (1915), during which she was the first ship to fire her guns during the campaign and took part in all operations including the Gallipoli evacuation, being the last large ship to leave the Suvla Bay area. She then served on the Suez Canal Patrol and East Indies Station (1915–1917), including duty in the eastern Mediterranean Sea and Indian Ocean. She was sunk with the loss of fifteen lives off Malta, on 9 January 1917 by two or three torpedoes from U-32.

HMS Duncan

Duncan (after Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan of Camperdown) served in the Mediterranean Fleet (1903–1905), Channel Fleet (1905–1907), Atlantic Fleet (1907–1908), Mediterranean Fleet again (1908–1912), and Home Fleet (1912–1914). Her World War I service was in the Grand Fleet (1914), in the Channel Fleet (1914–1915), on the Finisterre-Azores-Madeira Station (1915), in the Adriatic Sea (1915–1916), in the Aegean Sea (1916–1917), and in the Adriatic again (1917). She was placed in reserve in 1917 and broken up in 1920.

HMS Exmouth

Exmouth (after Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth) served in the Mediterranean Fleet (1903–1904), Home Fleet (1904–1905), Channel Fleet (1905–1907), Atlantic Fleet (1907–1908), Mediterranean Fleet again (1908–1912), and Home Fleet again (1912–1914), during which she was a gunnery tender at Portsmouth in 1913, then joined the 6th Battle Squadron and was later allocated to the 3rd Battle Squadron. Her World War I service was in the Grand Fleet (1914); in the Channel Fleet (1914–1915), during which she was in action during the Zeebrugge bombardment in 1915; in the Dardanelles Campaign (1915); in the Aegean Sea (1915–1917); and in the Indian Ocean (1917). She was placed in reserve in 1917 and broken up in 1920.

HMS Montagu

Montagu (after Ralph Montagu, 3rd Baron Montagu of Boughton, 1st Earl of Montagu) served in the Mediterranean Fleet (1903–1905) and Channel Fleet (1905–1906). She was wrecked on Lundy Island on 30 May 1906.

HMS Russell

HMS Russell (after Edward Russell, 1st Earl of Orford) served in the Mediterranean Fleet (1903–1904), Home Fleet (1904–1905), Channel Fleet (1905–1907), Atlantic Fleet (1907–1909), Mediterranean Fleet again (1909–1912), and Home Fleet again (1912–1914). Her World War I service was in the Grand Fleet (1914); Channel Fleet (1914–1915), during which she took part in the bombardment of Zeebrugge; Grand Fleet again (1915); and Dardanelles Campaign (1915–1916), taking part later on in the evacuation of Gallipoli, being the last British battleship to leave the Cape Helles area. She continued to serve in the eastern Mediterranean Sea until, on 27 April 1916, she struck two mines off the coast of Malta and sank with the loss of 125 lives.