NationMaster - Encyclopedia: King George V class battleship (1911)

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The King George V class battleships were a series of four Royal Navy battleships built just prior and serving in the First World War. The King George V class immediately followed the Orion class upon which they were based. This article is about the navy of the United Kingdom. ... For other uses, see Battleship (disambiguation). ... â€œThe Great War â€ redirects here. ... The Orion class battleships were four super-dreadnoughts — the first ships of that type — of the Royal Navys. ...

Design

They were of slightly larger displacement than the Orions; the extra tonnage allowed for some small enhancements were incorporated into the design. The most obvious differences of appearance compared to the Orions were the repositioning of the main mast and fore-funnel and the conspicuously slab sided funnels themselves. Tonnage is a measure of the size or cargo capacity of a ship. ...

They used the same 13.5 inch Mark V gun, but firing a slightly heavier (1,400 lb as against 1,250 lb) shell. Their Secondary armament was re-arranged to improve fire distribution ahead, which had been indicated by tactical modelling to be the most dangerous area for torpedo boat attacks. A shell is a payload-carrying projectile, which, as opposed to a bullet, contains an explosive or other filling, though modern usage includes large solid projectiles previously termed shot (AP, APCR, APCNR, APDS, APFSDS and Proof shot). ... The secondary armament of a capital ship are smaller, faster-firing weapons that are typically effective at a shorter range than the main (heavy) weapons. ...

Armour was slightly redistributed and, it was thought, improved. Underwater protection was also improved, although these changes did not save the Audacious when she stumbled into a single German mine late in 1914. HMS Audacious was a King George V class battleship of the Royal Navy. ...

There were slight revisions to the superstructure and masts. Their powerplant was intended to give a design speed of 1 knot more than the Orions. This gave them slightly easier speed, but in practice they steamed mostly in the company of slower ships anyway.

Overall, they were a successful design, although received without particular enthusiasm by the public and press. They had been substantially promoted as a great advance over the Orions. In particular, it was expected that they would carry 6 inch guns for secondary armament. In fact it was the subsequent Iron Duke class battleships that first received 6 inch secondaries. The Iron Duke class battleships of the Royal Navy were four battleships, Benbow, Emperor of India, Iron Duke, and Marlborough. ...

Service

The ships remaining after the end of the First World War were all decommissioned in the 1920s to allow for the two Nelson class battleships under the Washington Naval Treaty. They carried the same armament as the Orion's. The 1920s is sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties, usually applied to America. ... 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. ... The Washington Naval Treaty limited the naval armaments of its five signatories: the United States, the British Empire, the Empire of Japan, the French Third Republic, and Italy. ...

Ships

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