Royal Sovereign or Revenge-class
Queen Elizabeth-class
An item referred to the Engineering dated 17th April reported that the same year 3 battleships of the Royal Sovereign-class with an armament of 8-38,1cm guns and further more 15,2cm guns were to be laid down for the British Royal Navy. The armament was similar to the Queen Elizabeth-class but the displacement was smaller and the speed lower. Further more was one battleship of the British Queen Elizabeth-class to be laid down. The result was that in 3 years time 8 battleships with a speed of 21 miles and 6 with a speed of 25 miles were built, all with a main armament of 38,1cm guns.