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HMS ''Goliath'' was one of the six ''Canopus''-class pre-dreadnought battleships built by the Royal Navy in the late 19th century. Commissioned in 1900, she served in the Far East on the China Station until 1905, at which time she joined the Mediterranean Fleet. In 1906, she was attached to the Channel Fleet. Having been mothballed prior to the outbreak of the First World War, she was returned to full commission. ''Goliath'' took part in operations against German East Africa, participating in the blockade of the German light cruiser in the Rufiji River. From March 1915, she was part of the Dardanelles Campaign, and remained in support of the landings at Gallipoli in April. On 13 May 1915 ''Goliath'' was sunk in Morto Bay off Cape Helles by two torpedoes from the Turkish torpedo boat destroyer ''Muâvenet-i Millîye'', which was manned by a combined German and Turkish crew, drowning 570 of her 700 crew members, including her captain, Thomas Lawrie Shelford. ==Technical characteristics== HMS ''Goliath'' was laid down at Chatham Dockyard on 4 January 1897 and was launched on 23 March 1898. She was commissioned in March 1900.〔 ''Goliath'' and her five sister ships were designed for service in the Far East, where the new rising power Japan was beginning to build a powerful and dangerous navy, and to able to transit the Suez Canal. They were designed to be smaller (by about ), lighter, and faster than their predecessors, the ''Majestic''-class battleships, although they were slightly longer at . In order to save weight, ''Goliath'' carried less armour than the ''Majestic''s, although the change from Harvey armour in the ''Majestic''s to Krupp armour in ''Goliath'' meant that the loss in protection was not as great as it might have been, Krupp armour having greater protective value at a given weight than its Harvey equivalent. Still, ''Goliath''s armour was light enough to make her almost a second-class battleship. Part of her armour scheme included the use of a special armoured deck over the belt to defend against plunging fire by howitzers that France reportedly planned to install on its ships, although this report proved to be false.〔''Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905'', p. 35〕 ''Goliath'' had four /35 cal guns mounted in twin turrets fore and aft; these guns were mounted in circular barbettes that allowed all-around loading, although at a fixed elevation.〔 She also mounted twelve /40 cal guns (sponson mounting allowing some of them to fire fore and aft) in addition to smaller guns, and four submerged torpedo tubes.〔''Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905'', p. 35, 36; Gibbons, p. 145〕 ''Goliath'' and her sister ships were the first British battleships with water-tube boilers, which generated more power at less expense in weight compared with the cylindrical boilers used in previous ships. The new boilers led to the adoption of fore-and-aft funnels, rather than the side-by-side funnel arrangement used in many previous British battleships. The ''Canopus''-class ships proved to be good steamers, consuming of coal per hour at full speed,〔Gibbons, p. 145〕 with a high speed for battleships of their time, a full faster than the ''Majestic''s.〔''Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905'', p. 35; Gibbons, p. 145〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「HMS Goliath (1898)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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