page_title: HMS Rodney (1884)
section_title: Guns
hierarchical_section_title: HMS Rodney (1884) / Design / Guns
caption_attribution_description: Ships of the International Squadron anchored off w:Selino Kastelli, w:Crete, while supporting an expedition to w:Kandanos between 5 and 9 Match 1897. Left to right: British battleship HMS&#160;Rodney, Austro-Hungarian ironclad SMS&#160;Kronprinzessin Erzherzogin Stephanie, British torpedo cruiser HMS&#160;Scout, French armored cruiser Chanzy, Russian battleship Sissoi Veliky, Italian protected cruiser Vesuvio
context_page_description: HMS Rodney was a battleship of the Victorian Royal Navy, a member of the Admiral class of warships designed by Nathaniel Barnaby. The ship was the last British battleship to carry a figurehead although smaller ships continued to carry them.
context_section_description: The main artillery fired a shell weighing 1,250 pounds (570 kg), which would penetrate 27 inches (690 mm) of iron plate at 1,000 yards (910 m). They were carried some 20 feet (6.1 m) above the water line, and each had a firing arc of 270 degrees. The manufacture of these guns took a much greater time than had been expected; this delay was the reason for the unusual prolongation of the time between the laying down of the ship and her completion.
  During a refit in 1901, her 6-pounder quick-firing Hotchkiss guns were replaced with 6-pounder quick-firing mark I Nordenfelt guns.
caption: Ships of the International Squadron anchored off Selino Kastelli, Crete, while supporting the expedition to Kandanos. Left to right: Rodney, the Austro-Hungarian ironclad SMS Kronprinzessin Erzherzogin Stephanie, the British torpedo cruiser HMS Scout, the French armoured cruiser Chanzy, the Russian battleship Sissoi Veliky, and the Italian protected cruiser Vesuvio.
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