HMS Camperdown (1885)
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HMS Camperdown was an Admiral-class battleship of the Royal Navy, named after Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan of Camperdown.
HMS Camperdown
Gun drill aboard Camperdown with the QF 6-pounder Nordenfelt guns
Camperdown's damaged bow after her 22 June 1893 collision with battleship Victoria.
Sketch by Melton Prior of Camperdown firing her 13.5-inch (343 mm) guns at Cretan insurgents attacking Izzeddin Fortress on Crete on 26–27 March 1897 as seen from HMS Revenge.
Sinking of HMS Victoria
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The sinking of HMS Victoria took place at approximately 15:30 on 22 June 1893, after HMS Victoria, the flagship of the Royal Navy's Mediterranean Fleet, collided with HMS Camperdown while on fleet man
HMS Camperdown (1885)
…Channel Fleet in May 1890. She was paid off in May 1892 into Fleet reserve, recommissioning in July 1892 into the Mediterranean Fleet. On 22 June 1893, she collided with and sank the battleship HMS Victoria with 358 deaths, including Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon. In 1897, Camperdown arrived off Crete to join the International…
Victoria sinking after the collision, taken from HMS Collingwood. HMS Nile is on the left.
HMS Victoria
Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon