King George V Class (1910) Battleships Class Overview

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.
Centurion had all armament removed in 1937 in preparation for sinking as a blockship.
In 1941 she had two 40mm AA and eight 20mm AA installed and this was increased in
May 1942 to four 40mm and seventeen 20mm.


Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Portsmouth Dockyard
Portsmouth, England

Oct. 9, 1911
Nov. 16, 1912
Fate
Sold Dec. 1926 and scrapped in 1927.
Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Devonport Dockyard
Plymouth, England

Nov. 18, 1911
May 22, 1913
Fate
Scuttled as breakwater on June 9, 1944 at Normandy, France. Scrapped in 1945.
Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Scotts Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd.
Greenock, Scotland

Mar. 21, 1912
Oct. 31, 1913
Fate
Sold Nov. 9, 1926 and scrapped in 1927.
Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Cammell Laird Ltd.
Birkenhead, England

Sept. 14, 1912
Oct. 21, 1913
Fate
Sunk Oct. 27, 1914 after hitting a mine laid by SMS Berlin.
HMT Olympic attempted to take her in tow but, she settled by the stern and sank.

Location: North Atlantic 14 miles NNW of the entrance of Loch Swilly, Ireland
(07.45N - 55.28W).

No loss of life reported.


Page revised Mar. 11, 2007