1914 October 27th. Sinking of HMS Audacious.

• HMS Audacious (1912) 

  For other ships of the same name, see HMS Audacious.

  HMS Audacious
  Career (UK)
  Name:	HMS Audacious
  Ordered:	1910
  Laid down:	March 1911
  Launched:	14 September 1912
  Commissioned:	August 1913
  Fate:	Mined, 27 October 1914
  General characteristics
  Class & type:	King George V-class battleship
  Displacement:	23,400 long tons (23,780 t)
  Length:	598 ft (182.3 m)
  Beam:	89 ft (27.1 m)
  Draught:	28 ft (8.5 m)
  Installed power:	31,000 shp (23,120 kW)
  Propulsion:	4 × Parsons turbines 4 × shafts
  Speed:	21 kn (24.2 mph; 38.9 km/h)
  Complement:	900
  Armament:	10 × 13.5 in (343 mm) Mk V guns (5×2) 16 × BL 4 in (102 mm) Mk VII guns 3 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes

  HMS Audacious was a King George V-class battleship of the Royal Navy. The vessel did not see any combat in the First World War, being sunk by a German naval mine off the northern coast of Donegal, Ireland in 191The four ships of the King George V class of the 1910 building programme were to have been repeats of the Orion class. However, the battle-cruiser HMS Lion, completed in May 1912 with her foremast ahead of the fore funnel, showed that this was a far better arrangement than that in the Orions, where it was the other way round. This modification produced a new and much improved class of battleship, a rare case where a battle-cruiser design influenced that of a battleship. Although the Orion and King George V classes were very similar, the position of the mast easily distinguishes the two types.