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A British battleship completed in 1906 1907 having an armament consisting of ten 12 inch guns mounted in turrets and of twenty four 12 pound quick fire guns for protection against torpedo boats This was the first battleship of the type characterized by a main armament of big guns all of the same caliber She had a displacement of 17900 tons at load draft and a speed of 21 knots per hour