HMS King George V (1911)
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| Career (UK) |  |
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| Name: | HMS King George V |
| Ordered: | 1910 |
| Builder: | Portsmouth Dockyard |
| Laid down: | 16 January 1911 |
| Launched: | 9 October 1911 |
| Commissioned: | 1912 |
| Decommissioned: | 1924 |
| Fate: | Scrapped in December 1926 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | King George V-class battleship |
| Displacement: | 23,400 tons |
| Length: | 598 ft (182 m) |
| Beam: | 89 ft (27 m) |
| Draught: | 28 ft (8.5 m) |
| Propulsion: | Parsons steam turbines producing 31,000 shp, driving 4 screws |
| Speed: | 21 knots (39 km/h) |
| Complement: | 900 |
| Armament: | 10 × 13.5-inch (342.9 mm) Mk V guns (5×2) 16 × BL 4-inch (101.6 mm) Mk VII guns 3 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes |
The first HMS King George V was a King George V-class of 1911 dreadnought, with a displacement of 23,400 tonnes and an armament of ten 13.5 inch guns in twin gun turrets and a secondary armament of sixteen 4 inch guns and had a crew complement of 870, though this increased substantially by 1916 to 1,110, and had a length of 597 feet.
She took part in the Battle of Jutland, being the lead ship of the 1st Division of the 2nd Battle Squadron. Her sister-ships were HMS Centurion, HMS Audacious and HMS Ajax.
HMS Audacious was sunk by a mine off the northern coast of Ireland, the rest survived World War I and were all decommissioned by 1924. King George V herself was decommissioned in 1919, used as a training ship between 1923-26 and scrapped in 1926.
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- British Warships 1914-1919 by Dittmar, F.J. and Colledge, J.J. Ian Allan, London; (1972), ISBN 0-7110-0380-7
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