HMS Queen Elizabeth (1913)
Service
- as Queen Elizabeth22 December 1914 — 19482,193 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Queen Elizabeth
- Pennant / hull number
- 1913
- Namesake
- Elizabeth I
- Builder
- HM Dockyard, Portsmouth
- Laid down
- 21 October 1912
- Launched
- 16 October 1913
- Commissioned
- 22 December 1914
- Decommissioned
- 1948
- Struck
- 7 July 1948
- Fate
- Scrapped, 1948 (1948)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- 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
- 1,262
- Main gun
- 381 mm (15 in)
HMS Queen Elizabeth was a Queen Elizabeth-class battleship in service with the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number 1913. She was named for Elizabeth I. HM Dockyard, Portsmouth laid her keel on 21 October 1912. Launched on 16 October 1913, she entered service on 22 December 1914.
Five ships of the class were built. The class followed the Iron Duke-class battleship and was succeeded by the Revenge-class battleship.
Displacement was 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 1,262.
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 decommissioned in 1948. She was struck from the register on 7 July 1948.
She was broken up for scrap in 1948.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 4 shafts; 2 steam turbine sets
- Power
- 24 Babcock & Wilcox boilers
- 75000 shp
- Armament
- 4 × twin 15 in guns
- 16 × 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
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Queen Elizabeth (1913) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer, Beadell, S J (Lt) — http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//448/media-448218/large.jpg This photograph A 9256 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons