Victoria-class ironclad

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HMS Victoria
Class overview
Preceded by	Admiral class
Succeeded by	Trafalgar class
In commission	1890–1907
Completed	2
Lost	1
General characteristics [1]
Displacement	11,020 tons (11,200 t)
Length	340 ft (100 m)
Beam	70 ft (21 m)
Draught	29 ft (8.8 m)
Propulsion	Coal-fired triple-expansion steam engines; twin screws
Speed	16.75 knots (31.02 km/h; 19.28 mph)
Complement	630
Armament	1 × 2 BL 16.25-inch (413 mm) guns 1 × BL 10-inch (254 mm) gun 12 × BL 6-inch (152 mm) guns 12 × 6-pounder (2.7 kg) guns 6 × 14 inch (356 mm) torpedo tubes
Armour	Belt: 18 in (457 mm) Bulkheads: 16 in (406 mm) Turrets: 17 in (432 mm) Redoubt: 18 in (457 mm) Battery screens: 6–3 in (152–76 mm) Conning Tower: 14–2 in (356–51 mm) Deck: 3 in (76 mm)

The Royal Navy's Victoria class (or Sans Pareil class) of the 1880s was the first class of ironclad warship (sometimes described as a battleship) which used triple expansion steam engines, previous classes having used compound engines.

There were only two ships in this class. The lead ship, HMS Victoria, was sunk in an accidental collision with another Royal Navy battleship, HMS Camperdown in the Mediterranean Sea with the loss of half of her crew. Her sister ship, HMS Sans Pareil, survived until she was scrapped in April 1907.