She was relieved of that role a year later, before being reduced to material reserve at Devonport in August 1911, and stripped and laid up at Motherbank for disposal in July 1913.

Her propulsion system consisted of two 3-cylinder triple expansion engines powered by eight coal-fired cylindrical boilers.

Bilge keels were added to compensate for the problem, and the ships "proved to be excellent seaboats quite capable ... of maintaining high speeds in a seaway".

[1] The ships were well-constructed and probably the most substantial built for the Royal Navy, even if they "suffered ... from excessive weight and fittings.

"[2] Ramillies was armed with four breech-loading 13.5-inch guns on two barbettes with armour ranging from 11 to 17 inches in thickness.

[1] She had been constructed at such a small incline that it took nearly an hour and a half to travel down the slipway and into the water[a]; most of the crowd that had gathered dissipated in the meantime.

She departed on 28 October and arrived at Malta on 8 November to relieve the battleship HMS Sans Pareil as acting flagship.

[5] Francis C. B. Bridgeman-Simpson was appointed captain of Ramillies on the day of her commission; the commander of the Mediterranean Fleet at the time was Admiral Sir Michael Culme-Seymour.

When Beresford resigned from this position in January 1902, his successor Rear-Admiral Burges Watson took over Ramillies as his flagship until his death in September 1902.

[8][9] She took part in combined manoeuvres off the coast of Portugal in August 1903, but that month she was paid off from Mediterranean service and transferred to the Portsmouth Reserve while she was refitted.

[5] In March 1907, Ramillies was recommissioned at Devonport with a reduced crew into the Special Service Division of the Home Fleet.

[10] She was stripped and laid up ready for disposal in July 1913, before being auctioned off for scrap on 7 October 1913; the buyer, George Cohen, of Swansea, paid £42,300 for her.