An item reported the launching by lady Winchester of the world’s strongest battleship the British HMS Orion. With a displacement of 12.500 ton, a speed of 21 knots was she armed with 14,5” guns and furthermore able to launch the new 21” torpedoes with a range of 4 miles.(1)
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1. Of the Orion-class. Laid down at the Portsmouth Dockyard on 29 November 1909, launched on 20 August 1910, sea trials begun in September 1911, commissioned on 2 January 1912, seagoing gunnery training ship stationed at Portland since June 1921, paid off on 12 April 1922, decided to dispose her as a result of the Washington Treaty, sold to shipbreakers firm Cox and Danks on 19 December 1922 and broken up at Upnor in February 1923.
