High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Canopus was a Canopus-class predreadnought battleship of the British Royal Navy. HMS Canopus was laid down at Portsmouth Dockyard on 4 January 1897, launched on 12 October 1897, and completed on 5 December 1899. She was named for the ancient city of Canopus, Egypt, where the Battle of the Nile took place. Canopus and her five sister ships were designed for service in the Far East, where the new rising power Japan was beginning to build a powerful and dangerous navy, and to able to transit the Suez Canal.

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