The
eighth British dreadnought named Neptune (1) was Thursday launched at Portsmouth and baptized by the duchess of Albany with as dimensions 180 x 28 metres and a
displacement of 20,250 tons. Her engines provided 25,000 hp allowing a speed of
20 knots. There was also one of the fifth new cruisers launched namely the Glasgow (2) at the Clyde.
Her keel was laid down in November 1909, she had a length of 150 metres, a
displacement of 4,820 tons and her engines provided 22,000 hp.
Notes
1.Of the Neptune-class battleships. Her building at the
Portsmouth dockyard was ordered by the 1908 Naval Estimates, her keel was laid
down on 19 January 1909, launched on 30 September, commissioned on 11 January
1911 and finally broken up in September 1922. With a displacement of
19.900-22.000 (full load) were her dimensions 166 x 26 x 8,2 metres or 546’x 85’x
27’. Her
horsepower of 25.000 shp allowed a speed of 21 knots. Her armament consisted of
2x5-12”/30,4 cm guns, 12-4”/19,16cm guns and 3-18”/45,7cm guns.
2.
A light cruiser of the Town-class laid down at the
Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan, England on 25 March
1909, launched on 30 September, commissioned in September a year later, after
the First World War temporarily in service as a training ship for stokers,
decommissioned 1922 was she sold on 29 April 1927 to be broken up. With a
displacement of 4.800 tons were her dimensions 138,1 (over all0 x 14,3 x 4,7 metres or 453’x 47’x
15.5’. Her horsepower of 22,000 hp allowed a speed of 25 knots. Her original
armament consisted of 206”.15,24
cm guns, 10-4”/10,16cm guns, 1-3: gun, 4-3pd quick firing guns, 4 machineguns
and 2-18”/45,7cm torpedo tubes.
