HMS Superb (1907)

HMS Superb was a Bellerophon-class dreadnought battleship of the Royal Navy and the eighth ship of her name to serve. Armstrong Whitworth laid her down at its Elswick shipyard on 6 February 1907, launched her on 7 November and completed her in May 1909. Two sets of Parsons direct-drive steam turbines drove four shafts with steam from eighteen Yarrow boilers, and on her sea trials on 2 April 1909 she reached 21.56 knots. She spent almost her whole career in the Home and Grand Fleets, took part in the Battle of Jutland in May 1916, and became flagship of the Mediterranean Fleet in October 1918, supporting Allied forces in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea after the armistice. She was judged obsolete and reduced to reserve in 1919, served as a training ship, was used for gunnery experiments in 1920 and became a target ship in 1922, and was sold for scrap late that year and broken up in 1923.