HMS Serena Waterly (BB-EWD-003)

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HMS Serena Waterly.
History
CRNEnsign.pngCacerta
Name: HMS Serena Waterly
Namesake: Admiral Serena Waterly
Ordered: 5 September 1901
Builder: Royal Shipbuilders of Cacerta
Laid down: 17 February 1902
Launched: 28 October 1902
Commissioned: 27 December 1902
Decommissioned: 8 November 1920
Struck: 11 January 1924
Honors and
awards:
Divide War: 8
Fate: Broken up for scrap, 7 June 1924
General characteristics
Class and type: Eerika Waterly-Davion-class battleship
Displacement:
  • 18,873 tons standard
  • 21,020 tons fully loaded
Length: 146 meters
Beam: 27.2 meters
Draft: 8.9 meters
Propulsion:
  • 2 × Andura steam turbines
  • 16 × Andura boilers
  • 4 × shafts each driving four-bladed propellers
  • 17,000 kW (23,000 shp)
Speed: 21 knots (39 km/h)
Range: 8,300 nmi at 12 knots
Complement: 1,008 officers and crew
Armament:
  • Guns:
  • 12 × 28cm L-45 guns (6 × 2)
  • 12 × 15cm L-45 guns (12 × 1)
  • 16 × 9cm L-45 guns (16 × 1)
  • Other:
  • 6 × 45cm torpedo tubes (2 × 3)
Armor:
  • Belt: 102 – 279 mm
  • Deck: 19 – 76 mm
  • Barbettes: 102 – 279 mm
  • Turrets: 76 – 305 mm
  • Conning tower: 279 mm
  • Bulkheads: 203 mm

The HMS Serena Waterly (BB-EWD-003) was the third the Eerika Waterly-Davion-class battleships, the first dreadnoughts built for the Cacertian Royal Navy. She was laid down in Italica on 17 February 1902 and launched in October of the same year. As with her sister ships, she was commissioned as part of the Grand Fleet and participated in the Divide War.