HMS King George V (1911)

Type:
Battleship
Class:
Builder:
Portsmouth Dockyard
Portsmouth, England
Pennant Number:
N/A
Ordered:
1910
Launched:
October 9, 1911
Keel Laid:
January 6, 1911
Commissioned:


November 16, 1912
Fate:
Sold Nov. 9, 1926 and scrapped in 1927.


Dimensions, machinery and performance

Length:
597' 4"
Engines:
4 Parsons steam turbines
Beam:
88' 9"
Boilers:
18 Babcock & Wilcox (coal / oil fired)
Draft:
28' 5" (max full)
Shafts:
4
Displacement:
23,300 std. / 25,700 full
SHP:
27,000
Speed:
21 knots
Crew:
850
Range:
4,060 NM @ 18.1 knots


Armament
Number Carried
Type
Arrangement
Maximum Range / Ceiling
10
13.5"/45 (343mm)
Mk V(H)
5 twin turrets
23,800 yards @ 20° (13.5 miles)
with a 1,250 lb. armor piercing shell

12 (a)
4"/50 (102mm)
BL Mk VII
single mounts
11,600 yards @ 15° (6.5 miles)
with a 31 lb. HE shell

3 (b)
21" (533mm)
torpedo tubes
2 broadside
1 stern
all submerged
4,500 yards @ 45 knots (2.5 miles)
10,750 yards @ 31 knots (6.1 miles)
515 lb. TNT warhead
Armament notes:
(a) In 1917 four additional 4" guns were added.
(b) The stern tube was removed in 1916.
In 1917 two 3" AA guns were added but later replaced with 4" guns.


Builder's Data
Page published Jan. 22, 2007