HMS King George V (1911)

Career
Ordered:	1910
Laid down:	January 1911
Launched:	October 9, 1911
Commissioned:
Decommissioned:	1924
Fate:	Scrapped in December 1926
Struck:
General Characteristics
Displacement:	23,400 tons
Length:	598 feet
Beam:	89 feet
Draught:	28 feet
Propulsion:	Turbine (Parsons) producing 31,000 shp, driving 4 screws
Speed:	21 knots
Range:
Complement:	900 men
Armament:	10 13.5-inch guns 12 6-inch guns Three 21-inch torpedo tubes
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The first HMS King George V was a King George V-class dreadnought, with a displacement of 23,400 tonnes and an armament of 10 x 13.5-inch guns in twin turrets and 16 x 4-inch guns and had a crew complement of 870, though this increased substantially by 1916 to 1,110, and had a length of 597 feet. She took part in the Battle of Jutland, being the lead ship of the 1st Division of the 2nd Battle Squadron. Her sister-ships were HMS Centurion, HMS Audacious and HMS Ajax. HMS Audacious was sunk by a mine off Northern Ireland, the rest survived World War I, until decommissioned by 1924. King George V herself was decommissioned in 1919, used as a training ship between 1923-26 and scrapped in 1926 .