Royal Navy — Battlecruiser class
O-class battlecruiser
The class in numbers
- 3 Planned
- 3 Cancelled
Design and service
- Type
- Battlecruiser
- Navy
- Royal Navy
- Preceded by
- Ersatz Yorck-class battlecruiser
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 28,900 long tons (29,364 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 35,400 long tons (35,968 t)
- Length
- 256 m (839.9 ft) OA
- Speed
- 35 knots (64.8 km/h, 40.3 mph)
- Complement
- 1,965
- Main gun
- 380 mm (15 in)
- Armament
- 6 × 38 cm SK C/34 guns
- 6 × 15 cm guns
- 8 × 10.5 cm SK C/33 AA
- 8 × 3.7 cm SK C/30 AA
- 20 × 2 cm SK C/30 AA
- 6 × 53.3 cm torpedo tubes
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| HMS Obdurate (G39) | G39 | 1942 | Scrapped 1965 |
| HMS Obedient (G48) | G48 | 1942 | Scrapped 1962 |
| HMS Offa (G29) | G29 | 1941 | Scrapped 1959 |
| HMS Onslaught (G04) | G04 | 1942 | Scrapped 1977 |
| HMS Onslow (G17) | G17 | 1941 | Scrapped 1980 |
| HMS Opportune (G80) | G80 | 1942 | Scrapped 1955 |
| HMS Oribi | 1941 | Scrapped 1965 | |
| HMS Orwell (G98) | G98 | 1942 | Scrapped 1965 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from O-class battlecruiser on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.