HMS Rodney (29)
Service
- as Rodney7 December 1927 — 19462,193 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Rodney
- Pennant / hull number
- 29
- Namesake
- Admiral Lord Rodney
- Builder
- Cammell Laird, Birkenhead
- Ordered
- 1922
- Laid down
- 28 December 1922
- Launched
- 17 December 1925
- Commissioned
- 7 December 1927
- Decommissioned
- 1946
- Struck
- 1948
- Fate
- Sold for scrap, 26 March 1948 (1948)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 33,730 long tons (34,271 t)
- Length
- 216.41 m (710 ft) OA
- Beam
- 32.31 m (106 ft)
- Draught
- 9.14 m (30 ft)
- Speed
- 23 knots (42.6 km/h, 26.5 mph)
- Range
- 7,000 nmi (12,964 km)
- Complement
- 1,314
- Main gun
- 406 mm (16 in)
HMS Rodney was a Nelson-class battleship, operated by the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number 29. The ship was named after Admiral Lord Rodney. Cammell Laird, Birkenhead laid her keel on 28 December 1922. Launched on 17 December 1925, she entered service on 7 December 1927.
Her class ran to two ships. The class followed the N3-class battleship and was succeeded by the King George V-class battleship (1939).
Displacement was 33,730 long tons. She measured 216.4 m (710 ft) long with a beam of 32.3 m (106 ft). Her designed speed was 23 knots, and she carried a complement of 1,314. Her main battery was of 406 mm (16.0 in) calibre.
45,000 shp drove two shafts.
She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in 1946. She was struck from the register in 1948.
She was broken up for scrap on 26 March 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
- 2 shafts; 2 geared steam turbines
- Power
- 8 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- 45000 shp
- Armament
- 3 × triple 16 inch guns
- 6 × twin 6 in (152 mm) guns
- 6 × single 4.7 in (120 mm) AA guns
- 8 × single 2 pdr (40 mm) AA guns
- 2 × 24.5 in torpedo tubes
- Armour
- Waterline belt: 13 - 14 in
- Deck: 3.75 - 6.25 in
- Barbettes: 12 - 15 in
- Gun turrets: 9 - 16 in
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Rodney (29) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Official photographer, Tomlin H W (Lt) — This photograph A 9607 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 4700-01) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons