Displacement around 25,000 tons and as dimensions 600 x 90 x 30 feet and a main armament 5x2-34.40cm/13.5 cal 50 guns. Between the two tripod masts in the open space (no funnels) were 2 gun turrets placed en echelon for a maximum arc of fire. Due to the arrangement could 8 of the 10 guns fire in a broadside of 146 or 150 degrees and all 10 guns in a broadside of 80 degrees. The armour of the battleship could be limited to 8-10 inch due to the very long range of her guns. Hull would be torpedo an sunmarine-mines resisted. The double bottom was continued up the sides to the armoured deck. Inside was a vertical longitudinal bulkhead forming the outer coal bunker and a second bulkhead inside the inner bunker. Propulsion was to consists of 4 sets of gas engines (Vogt type or a multi-cylinder rotary type. The coal needed for the producers could be stored in the bunkers in the usual way and the double bottom and sides with oil.
The first so-called British super-dreadnought class was the Orion-class (1909-1912) preceded by Colossus-class succeeded by King George V-class. This class was the first to be fitted out with 10-34cm/13.5”cal 45 Mk V guns in superfiring turrets placed op the centreline. Normal displacement 22,300 tons and as dimensions 581 (over all) x 88.6 x 27.6 feet. Fitted out with steam turbines and water-tube boilers, speed 21 knots.
Sources
“The Trend of British Battleship Design” in The Navy League Annual. Alan H. Burgoyne. 1909
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