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Wednesday, 15 May 2013

The armament of the British battle cruiser HMS Lion according to the Dutch magazine Marineblad 1909-1910 no. 11

An item reported that the armament of the British HMS cruiser Lion (1) would consist of 4x2-30,5cm guns, two turrets before the funnels, one turret between the second and third funnel and aft the fourth turret. The secondary armament consisted of 16-10cm guns.

Note
1. Not a cruiser as the magazine reported but a battle cruiser of the Lion-clas. Laid down at the Devonport Dockyard on 29 November 1909, launched on 6 August 1910, commissioned on 4 June two years later, since 1920 part of the reserve was she decommissioned on 30 May 1922 and on 31 January 1924 sold to be broken up.