HMS King George V (1911)
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HMS King George V in Scapa Flow 1917 |
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| Ship data | |
| Keel laying : | January 16, 1911 |
| Launch: | October 9, 1911 |
| Commissioning: | November 1912 |
| Builder: | Portsmouth Dockyard |
| Crew: | 759 - 782 men |
| 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 | |
| Scrapped December 1926 | |
The HMS King George V was a British battleship and the first of four ships in the first King George V class (1911) . The first King George V class was a typical representative of the dreadnought battleships of its time. The battleship after King was named George V . HMS King George V was built in HM Portsmouth Dockyard . Sister ships were the HMS Centurion , HMS Audacious and HMS Ajax . Shortly before the outbreak of World War I , the ship took part in the Kiel Week of 1914.
First World War
The HMS King George V was assigned to the 2nd Battle Squadron (2nd battleship squadron) of the British Grand Fleet immediately after its commissioning . In the Skagerrak Battle of May 31, 1916, the remaining three battleships of the King George V Class (1911) together with HMS Erin formed the First Division of the 2nd Battle Squadron under Viceadmiral Sir Martyn Jerram . As the flagship of the First Division 2nd Battle Squadron, King George V took part in the Battle of the Skagerrak, led by Captain Sir Frederick Laurence Field . In the evening battle of the battle fleets, King George V scored no hits, but was not hit either. Until the end of the First World War, HMS King George V was used as the flagship of the First Division 2nd Battle Squadron in the port of Cromarty . There were no more missions.
post war period
In 1919, HMS King George V was decommissioned and transferred to the Reserve Fleet . Used as a training ship from 1923 to 1926, King George V was scrapped in December 1926.
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
- British Warships 1914-1919 by Dittmar, Colledge, Allan, London; (1972), ISBN 0-7110-0380-7
