Royal Navy — Battleship class
Nelson-class battleship
Nelson class
The class in numbers
- 2 Completed
- 2 Scrapped
Design and service
- Type
- Battleship
- Navy
- Royal Navy
- Built
- 1922–1927
- Preceded by
- N3-class battleship (planned)
- Succeeded by
- King George V-class battleship (1939)
- Builders
- Armstrong Whitworth
- Cammell Laird
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
Nelson as built
- Displacement, standard
- 33,300 long tons (33,834 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 37,780 long tons (38,386 t)
- Length
- 216.1 m (709 ft) OA
- Speed
- 23 knots (42.6 km/h, 26.5 mph)
- Complement
- 1,314
- Main gun
- 406 mm (16 in)
- Armament
- 3 × triple BL 16 in Mk 1 guns
- 6 × twin BL 6-in (152 mm) Mk XXII guns
- 6 × single QF 4.7 in (120 mm) Mk VIII AA guns
- 8 × single QF 2-pdr (40 mm) AA guns
- 2 × 24.5 in torpedo tubes
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| HMS Nelson (28) | 28 | 1927 | Scrapped 1949 |
| HMS Rodney (29) | 29 | 1927 | Scrapped 1948 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Nelson-class battleship on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.