Service History
| Ship | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Completed | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HMS Albion | Thames Iron Works | 3 December 1896 | 21 June 1898 | June 1901 | Scrapped 1920 |
| HMS Canopus | Portsmouth Dockyard | 4 January 1897 | 12 October 1897 | December 1899 | Scrapped 1920 |
| HMS Glory | Laird, Birkenhead | 1 December 1897 | 11 March 1899 | October 1900 | Scrapped 1922 |
| HMS Goliath | Chatham Dockyard | 4 January 1897 | 23 March 1898 | March 1900 | Sunk May 1915 by torpedo |
| HMS Ocean | Devonport Dockyard | 15 February 1897 | 5 July 1898 | February 1900 | Mined March 1915 |
| HMS Vengeance | Vickers, Barrow | 23 August 1898 | 25 July 1899 | April 1902 | Scrapped 1921 |
HMS Dreadnought made all pre-dreadnought battleships, like those of the Canopus class, obsolete. Before World War I the class saw service in home waters, on the China Station and in the Mediterranean Fleet. After the war began they saw service around the world, including home waters, the Atlantic, Africa, northern Russia and the Mediterranean where two were sunk during the Dardanelles campaign. The careers of the ships were very similar. The four surviving ships were reduced to subsidiary duties late in the war and were scrapped in the early 1920s.
HMS Albion served in the Home Fleet during 1907 alongside Canopus and Goliath which served there during 1907–1908 and Glory during 1906–1907. Ocean also served there in 1910–1914, along with Vengeance in 1908–1914. Goliath served there again during 1909–1914, through the renaming of the Home Fleet as the Channel Fleet in 1914.
HMS Albion and Glory went to the Channel Fleet prior to their Home Fleet service, 1905–1906, together with Canopus, 1906–1907.
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