HMS Centurion (1911)
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| Ship data | |
| Keel laying : | January 16, 1911 |
| Launch: | November 18, 1911 |
| Commissioning: | May 1913 |
| Builder: | HM Dockyard Devonport (Plymouth) |
| Crew: | 759-782 man tribe |
| Technical specifications | |
| Displacement : | Construction: 23,300 ts Maximum: 25,700 ts |
| Length between perpendiculars: length over all: |
L pp = 169.2 m L oa = 182.1 m |
| Width: | 27.1 m |
| Draft : | 8.74 m |
| Machinery: | 4 sets of Parsons steam turbines 18 Yarrow steam boilers in 4 boiler rooms |
| Drive: | 4 three-bladed propellers |
| Power on the waves: | 27,000 WPS |
| Top speed: | 21.7 kn |
| Driving range: | 4,060 nm at 18.1 kn |
| Fuel supply: | 900–3,150 ts coal 800 ts heating oil |
| Armor | |
| Belt armor: | top: 203 mm middle: 304 mm bottom: 229 mm |
| Side armor: | Bow: 102 mm Foredeck: 152 mm Stern: 64 mm |
| 4 armored bulkheads: |
Bulkhead 1 : 51 mm bulkhead 2 : 203 mm bulkhead 3 : 152 mm bulkhead 4 : 102 mm |
| Tank longitudinal bulkhead : | 25-45 mm |
| Upper deck: | 25 mm |
| upper armored deck: | 38 mm |
| lower armored deck: | 64-102 mm |
| Command tower in front: | horizontal: 76 mm vertical: 279 mm |
| Aft command tower: | horizontal: 102 mm vertical: 152 mm |
| Heavy Artillery Towers: | Fronts: 279 mm Sides: 279 mm Ceilings: 102 mm |
| Heavy Artillery Barbettes : | 229-254 mm |
| Casemates : | 25-76 mm |
| Armament | |
| Heavy artillery: | 10 × 13.5 "(343 mm) L / 45 in 5 twin towers |
| Middle artillery : | 16 × 4 "(102 mm) L / 50 in 16 single mounts |
| Underwater torpedo tubes : |
3 × 21 "(533 mm) 2 sides, 1 rear |
| Whereabouts | |
| Conversion to target ship in 1927, converted to decoy in 1941, sunk in June 1944 as a breakwater | |
The HMS Centurion was a British battleship and the second of four ships in the first King George V class (1911) . The King George V Class (1911) was a typical representative of the dreadnought battleships of its time. HMS Centurion was built at HM Dockyard, Devonport . Sister ships were the HMS King George V , HMS Audacious and HMS Ajax .
First World War
The HMS Centurion was immediately after their entry into the 2nd Battle Squadron (2 battle squadron) of the British Grand Fleet allocated. As a ship of the First Division 2nd Battle Squadron, she took part in the Battle of the Skagerrak under the command of Captain Michael Culme-Seymour KCB MVO . She was then assigned to serve in the North Sea under the command of Roger Keyes . After serving in the North Sea, she was sent to the Eastern Mediterranean in 1918 to oversee the surrender of the Ottoman Empire , with the support of HMS Superb .
Interwar period
In 1924, HMS Centurion was decommissioned and transferred to the Reserve Fleet . In 1927, HMS Centurion was converted into a target ship in accordance with the provisions of the Washington Naval Conference of 1922 , in order to replace the old HMS Agamemnon .
Second World War
Still used as a target ship at the beginning of the war, the HMS Centurion was converted into a decoy in 1941 . The aim of this action was to protect the HMS Anson, which is currently under construction . In 1942 she took part in Operation Vigorous as the same mock battleship . Between 1942 and 1944 she was still stationed at Sues as an anti-aircraft ship . In June 1944 she was sunk as a breakwater for the Mulberry ports during the Normandy landing as part of Operation Neptune .
literature
- Siegfried Breyer: Battleships and battle cruisers 1905–1970 . JF Lehmanns Verlag, Munich 1970, ISBN 3-88199-474-2 .
- Robert Gardiner (Ed.): Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922-1946 . Conway Maritime Press, London 1980.
