Namesake: Admiral George Brydges Rodney. Builder: Chatham Dockyard, Laid down: February 6, 1882, Launched: October 8, 1884, Completed:June 1888
Displacement:10,300 tons, Length:325’ (99m.) pp, Beam: 68’ (21m.) Draught: 27’10” (8.48m.)
Two-shaft Humphreys compound inverted I.H.P.= 7,500 normal, 11,500 forced draught
Speed:15.7 knots normal, 17.4 knots forced draught. Complement:530
Armament: Four BL 13.5” (342.9mm.) guns, Six BL 6” (152.4mm.) guns, Twelve 6 pounders, Four above-water torpedo tubes.
Armour:
Belt: 18–8 (457–203 mm.) Bulkheads: 16–7” (406–178mm.) Barbettes: 11.5–10” (292–254mm.) Conning Tower: 12–2” (305–51mm.) Deck: 3–2” (76–51mm.)
She was commissioned on June 20, 1888 into the Home Fleet. She was held in reserve until July 1889, and after taking part in manoevres until September she served with the Channel Fleet until May 1894. She was then posted to the Mediterranean, remaining there until 1897. Thereafter she was coastguard ship at Queensferry until February 1901, when she sailed to Chatham for a refit. She remained in reserve until being sold in 1909 and scrapped.
(Oman 1977, 4 B. StG.?)
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