HMS Rodney

Type:
Battleship
Class:
Builder:
Cammell Laird Ltd.
Birkenhead, England
Pennant Number:
29
Ordered:
December 11, 1922
Launched:
December 17, 1925
Keel Laid:
December 28, 1922
Commissioned:
November 10, 1927
Fate:
Sold to T.W. Ward on Mar. 19, 1948 and scrapped at Inverkeithing, Scotland in 1949.


Dimensions, machinery and performance

Length:
710'
Engines:
2 Brown & Curtis single reduction geared turbines
Beam:
16'
Boilers:
8 Yarrow water tube type
Draft:
31' 6"
Shafts:
2
Displacement:
33,900 std. / 38,000 full
SHP:
45,000
Speed:
23
Crew:
1,360
Range:
16,500 NM @ 12 knots / 5,500 NM @ 23 knots


Armament as built
Number Carried
Type
Arrangement
Maximum Range / Ceiling
9
16"/45 (406mm)
Mk1
3 triple turrets
37,500 yards @ 39.2° (21.6 miles)
with a 2,048 lb. armor piercing shell
12
6"/50 (152mm)
BL Mk XXII

6 twin turrets
25,800 yards @ 45° (14.6 miles)
6
4.7"/40 (120mm)
DP/QF Mk VIII
single mounts
16,160 yards @ 45°
AA ceiling 32,000'
32
1.5"/39 (40mm)
2 pounder Mk II
3 octuple mounts
8 single mounts

1,200 @ 45° (effective range)
16
.5" AA MG
4 quadruple mounts
N/A
2
24.5" (622mm)
torpedo tubes
submerged
15,000 yards @ 35 knots
20,000 yards @ 30 knots
743 lb. TNT warhead
2
Aircraft


Combat Victories
Date
Name
Type
Tons
Nationality
Notes
May 27, 1941
Battleship
45,451
Germany
Assisted


Builder's Data
Page published Mar. 13, 2008