The G3 battlecruisers were a design of battlecruiser planned for the British Royal Navy after the First World War. The G3 (from G for a battlecruiser design and 3 for triple turrets) would have been larger, faster and more heavily armed than any existing battleship and the cruiser aspect was more in the balance of speed and armament relative to the N3 battleship design developed at the same time. HMS Hood (left) and HMS Barham (right), in Malta, 1937. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the senior service of the British armed services, being the oldest of its three branches. ... Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ... Jump to: navigation, search The N3 battleship was a planned battleship for the Royal Navy after World War I. They were never built because of the Washington Naval Treaty signed in 1921 which prevented an arms race between the major naval powers. ...

The introduction of the Washington Naval Treaty, an arms limitation treaty intended to curtail a arms race between competing navies in the post Great War period led to the suspension of building in November 1921 and outright cancellation in February 1922. Jump to: navigation, search The Washington Naval Treaty limited the naval armaments of its five signatories. ...

Some of the aspects of their design made their way into the Nelson class battleships which can be seen as cut-down G3's. Jump to: navigation, search HMS Nelson For the Battleship class in the Cosmic Era of Gundam, see Nelson class battleship (Gundam) The Nelson class were battleships of the British Royal Navy built shortly following the Washington Naval Treaty in 1922. ...

Among the names considered for the four ships planned were Invincible, Indomitable, Inflexible and Indefatigable from the World War I battlecruisers, and St George, St Patrick, St Andrew and St David after the patron Saints of the four nations of the UK. For alternate uses, see Saint George (disambiguation) Saint George on horseback rides alongside a wounded dragon being led by a princess, late 19th century engraving. ... Statue of Saint Patrick Saint Patrick (died March 17, 462, 492, or 493), is the patron saint of Ireland. ... Saint Andrew (Greek: Andreas, manly), the Christian Apostle, brother of Saint Peter, was born at Bethsaida on the Lake of Galilee. ... Saint David (c. ... Jump to: navigation, search I am a loser, WEDGIES GOT A WEDGIE according to sdmmbdkmegzsgrcg. ...

Design

The G3 design took several novel ideas.

• concentration of the main battery forward of the funnels. Unlike all other battleship designs past and present that put some of the main guns aft and some forward. This is partly atributed to the idea that since British ships never ran away from a battle, they did not need to fire astern and could concentrate all guns on the enemy without turning side on

• complete armour protection for all important areas and none for the rest.

• a tower bridge structure, which was armoured. The tower bridge was sited behind the first two gun turrets and in front of the third which could in theory fire all round although not directly ahead nor directly aft.

Planned specification

• Displacement: 48,400 tons
• Length: 856 ft
• Armour
  • Belt: 14 inches
  • Barbettes: 14 inch

• Armament:
  • main: nine 16 inch /L45 guns in 3 triple turrets
  • secondary: sixteen 6 inch guns in 8 twin turrets
  • anti-aircraft: six 4.7 inch AA
• Propulsion
  • geared steam turbines
  • speed 32 knots