HMS Royal Oak (08)
Service
- as Royal Oak1 May 1916 — 14 October 193943 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Royal Oak
- Pennant / hull number
- 08
- Namesake
- Royal Oak
- Builder
- Devonport Royal Dockyard
- Laid down
- 15 January 1914
- Launched
- 17 November 1914
- Commissioned
- 1 May 1916
- Fate
- Sunk by U-47, 14 October 1939 (1939)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 29,970 long tons (30,451 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 31,130 long tons (31,630 t)
- Length
- 188.98 m (620 ft)
- Beam
- 26.82 m (88 ft)
- Draught
- 10.06 m (33 ft)
- Speed
- 22 knots (40.7 km/h, 25.3 mph)
- Range
- 7,000 nmi (12,964 km)
- Main gun
- 381 mm (15 in)
HMS Royal Oak was a Revenge-class battleship of the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number 08. She was named for Royal Oak. Devonport Royal Dockyard laid her keel on 15 January 1914. She entered service on 1 May 1916, having been launched on 17 November 1914.
She was one of six ships of her class. The class followed the Queen Elizabeth-class battleship and was succeeded by the N3-class battleship.
She displaced 29,970 long tons standard and 31,130 long tons at full load. She measured 189.0 m (620 ft) long with a beam of 26.8 m (88 ft). Her designed speed was 22 knots.
Her main battery was eight 381 mm (15 in) guns in four twin mountings. Her machinery developed 40,000 shp through four shafts.
She was in commission for 43 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk on 14 October 1939, at 58°56′N 2°59′W. The wreck survives.
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
- 18 Yarrow boilers
- 40000 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 - 4 in
- Barbettes: 6 - 10 in
- Gun turrets: 11 - 13 in
- Conning tower: 3 - 11 in
- Bulkheads: 6 in
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Royal Oak (08) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy photographer — http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/static/pages/211.html — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons