Royal Navy — Battlecruiser class
Admiral-class battlecruiser
Admiral class
The class in numbers
- 4 Planned
- 1 Completed
- 3 Cancelled
- 1 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Battlecruiser
- Navy
- Royal Navy
- Built
- 1916–1920
- In commission
- 1920–1941
- Preceded by
- Courageous-class battlecruiser
- Succeeded by
- G3 battlecruiser (cancelled)
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As of 20 August 1917
- Displacement, full load
- 45,470 long tons (46,200 t)
- Length
- 262.13 m (860 ft)
- Speed
- 32 knots (59.3 km/h, 36.8 mph)
- Complement
- 820
- Main gun
- 381 mm (15 in)
- Armament
- 4 × twin 15 in guns
- 16 × single 5.5 in guns
- 4 × single 4 in AA guns
- 10 × 21 in torpedo tubes
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| HMS Hood | 1920 | Sunk 1941 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Admiral-class battlecruiser on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.