Description[]
The King George V class is the seventh dreadnought design to be completed by the Royal Navy, and the second class of super-dreadnoughts with heavier armament and armour. Fitted with improved 13.5" guns, a stronger power plant, rearranged armour, improved underwater protection and optimized secondary artillery firing arcs, they are a considerable advance from the preceding Orion class. The ships were commissioned in 1912 and 1913.
Ship data
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Relative combat value: 15711
Basic damage control capacity: 59%
Dimensions
Displacement: 23000 tons
Length: 182 m
Width: 27 m
Draught: 9 m
Standard crew: 782
Performance
Maximum speed (undamaged): 21 knots
Endurance: 12471 km
Coal capacity: 3950 tons
Armour protection
Conning tower armour: 12
Hull armour: 8
Main belt armour: 14 (includes backing slope of deck armour)
Deck armour: 1 (sloped at edges to provide additional belt level protection)
Best armour type: Krupp
Armament
10 x 13.5in Mk V 1400 lb, centrally controlled. Ammo: 1120 rounds
16 x 4in BL Mk VII, centrally controlled. Ammo: 2400 rounds
1 x 12-pdr 20cwt HA Mk I, locally controlled. Ammo: 200 rounds
2 x 21in Mk II(M) Torpedoes, locally controlled. Ammo: 8 torpedoes
Ships in class
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- King George V.
- Centurion
- Audacious (†, mined off Ireland on October 1914)
- Ajax