HMS Valiant (1914)
Service
- as Valiant19 February 1916 — 19482,193 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Valiant
- Pennant / hull number
- 1914
- Builder
- Fairfields, Govan
- Ordered
- 1912
- Laid down
- 31 January 1913
- Launched
- 4 November 1914
- Commissioned
- 19 February 1916
- Fate
- Sold for scrap, 19 March 1948 (1948)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications — As built
- Displacement, standard
- 32,590 long tons (33,113 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 33,260 long tons (33,794 t)
- Length
- 194.77 m (639 ft)
- Beam
- 27.43 m (90 ft)
- Draught
- 10.06 m (33 ft)
- Speed
- 24 knots (44.4 km/h, 27.6 mph)
- Range
- 5,000 nmi (9,260 km)
- Complement
- 919
- Main gun
- 381 mm (15 in)
HMS Valiant was a Queen Elizabeth-class battleship in service with the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number 1914. Her keel was laid at Fairfields, Govan on 31 January 1913. She entered service on 19 February 1916, having been launched on 4 November 1914.
Her class ran to five ships. The class followed the Iron Duke-class battleship and was succeeded by the Revenge-class battleship.
She displaced 32,590 long tons standard and 33,260 long tons at full load. She measured 194.8 m (639 ft) long with a beam of 27.4 m (90 ft). Her designed speed was 24 knots, and she carried a complement of 919.
Her main battery was eight 381 mm (15 in) guns in four twin mountings. 75,000 shp drove four shafts.
She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap on 19 March 1948.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
This vessel is recorded in 2 configurations. Wartime refits changed armament and complement substantially, so each is kept separately rather than averaged into one set of figures. The figures above are as built.
As built
- Propulsion
- 4 shafts; 2 steam turbine sets
- Power
- 24 Babcock & Wilcox boilers
- 75000 shp
- Armament
- 4 × twin 15 in guns
- 14 × single 6 in guns
- 2 × single 3 in AA guns
- 4 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- Armour
- Waterline belt: 13 in
- Deck: 1 - 3 in
- Barbettes: 7 - 10 in
- Gun turrets: 11 - 13 in
- Conning tower: 13 in
1937–1939 refit
- Displacement, standard
- 32,468 long tons (32,989 t)
- Speed
- 23 knots (42.6 km/h, 26.5 mph)
- Main gun
- 381 mm (15 in)
- Armament
- 4 × twin 15 in guns
- 10 × twin 4.5 in DP guns
- 4 × octuple 2 pdr (1.6 in (40 mm)) AA guns
- 26 × twin 20 mm AA guns
- 4 × quadruple 0.5 in MGs
- Aircraft
- 2
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Valiant (1914) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: US Navy — http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/h52000/h52518.jpg — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons