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King George V: super-dreadnought: 25,830 31 October 1913 Paid off October 1926, broken up 14 December 1926 Aki Imperial Japanese Navy: Satsuma: semi-dreadnought: 20,400 11 March 1911 20 September 1923 Sunk as target ship 2 September 1924 Alabama United States Navy: Illinois: pre-dreadnought: 11,751 16 October 1900 7 May 1920
The list of battleships includes all battleships built between 1859 and 1946, listed alphabetically. The boundary between ironclads and the first battleships, the so-called ' pre-dreadnought battleship ', is not obvious, as the characteristics of the pre-dreadnought evolved in the period from 1875 to 1895.
HMS Viperous is the name of a fictional V and W-class destroyer in the novel The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat, the leader of an escort group including Compass Rose, the focus of the first part of the story. HMS Warlock is the name of the leader of a flotilla of eight fictional destroyers in the 1974 novel The Destroyers by Douglas Reeman.
King George V was the first of the trio to return home in early 1923 and she served a training ship until she was sold for scrap at the end of 1926. Ajax and Centurion followed in April 1924, although they were placed in reserve, with the latter serving as the flagship of the Reserve Fleet. Like King George V, Ajax was sold for scrap at the end ...
This list of military engagements of World War I covers terrestrial, maritime, and aerial conflicts, including campaigns, operations, defensive positions, and sieges. Campaigns generally refer to broader strategic operations conducted over a large bit of territory and over a long period of time.
The King George V-class ships were designed as enlarged and improved versions of the preceding Orion-class battleship. [1] King George V had an overall length of 594 feet 4 inches (181.2 m), a beam of 89 feet 1 inch (27.2 m) and a draught of 28 feet 8 inches (8.7 m).
Ajax, named after the mythological hero, Ajax, [9] was the fifth ship of her name to serve in the Royal Navy. [10] Ordered under the 1910–1911 Naval Estimates, [ 11 ] the ship was laid down by Scotts Shipbuilding & Engineering at their shipyard in Greenock on 27 February 1911 and launched on 21 March 1912. [ 12 ]
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