Royal Navy — Battleship class
King George V-class battleship (1939)
King George V-class battleship
The class in numbers
- 5 Completed
- 1 Lost
- 4 Scrapped
Design and service
- Type
- Battleship
- Navies
- Royal Navy 27
Royal Canadian Navy 2
Royal Australian Navy 1 - Built
- 1937–1940
- In commission
- 1940–1951
- Preceded by
- Nelson-class battleship
- Succeeded by
- Lion-class battleship (planned)
- Builders
- Cammell Laird
- Fairfield Shipbuilding & Eng.
- John Brown & Co.
- Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson
- Vickers Armstrongs
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 40,000 long tons (40,642 t)
- Length
- 227.08 m (745 ft) OA
- Speed
- 28 knots (51.9 km/h, 32.2 mph)
- Complement
- 1,422
- Main gun
- 356 mm (14 in)
- Armament
- 2 × quadruple, 1 × twin 14 in guns
- 8 × twin 5.25 in DP guns
- 4–6 × octuple 2 pdr 40 mm AA guns
- 2 × quadruple, 2 x single 40 mm Bofors AA guns
- 36 × 20 mm Oerlikon AA guns (1945)
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| French submarine Doris (P84) | P84 | 1944 | Transferred 1947 |
| HMAS Vampire (D68) | D68 | 1917 | Sunk 1942 |
| HMAS Vendetta (D69) | D69 | 1933 | Scuttled 1948 |
| HMCS Algonquin (R17) | R17 | 1944 | Scrapped 1971 |
| HMCS Sioux | R64 | 1944 | Scrapped 1965 |
| HMS Anson (79) | 79 | 1942 | Scrapped 1957 |
| HMS Centurion (1911) | 1911 | 1913 | Sunk 1944 |
| HMS Duke of York (17) | 17 | 1941 | Scrapped 1957 |
| HMS Grenville (R97) | R97 | 1943 | Scrapped 1983 |
| HMS Hardy (R08) | R08 | 1943 | Scuttled 1944 |
| HMS Howe (32) | 32 | 1942 | Scrapped 1958 |
| HMS King George V (41) | 41 | 1940 | Scrapped 1957 |
| HMS Prince of Wales (53) | 53 | 1941 | Sunk 1941 |
| HMS Ulster (R83) | R83 | 1943 | Scrapped 1977 |
| HMS Upshot | P82 | 1944 | Scrapped |
| HMS Urania | R05 | 1944 | Scrapped 1971 |
| HMS Urchin (R99) | R99 | 1943 | Scrapped 1967 |
| HMS Valentine (R17) | R17 | 1944 | Scrapped 1971 |
| HMS Vanoc | H33 | 1917 | Scrapped 1945 |
| HMS Venus (R50) | R50 | 1943 | Scrapped 1972 |
| HMS Verulam (R28) | R28 | 1943 | Scrapped 1972 |
| HMS Vigilant (R93) | R93 | 1943 | Scrapped 1965 |
| HMS Vigorous | P74 | 1944 | Scrapped 1949 |
| HMS Vimy | 1917 | Scrapped 1947 | |
| HMS Virago (R75) | R75 | 1943 | Scrapped 1965 |
| HMS Virulent (P95) | P95 | 1944 | Scrapped 1958 |
| HMS Viscount | F99 | 1918 | Scrapped 1945 |
| HMS Vixen (R64) | R64 | 1944 | Scrapped 1965 |
| HMS Volage (R41) | R41 | 1944 | Scrapped 1972 |
| HMS Vortigern | D37 | 1918 | Sunk 1942 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from King George V-class battleship (1939) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.