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Friday, 22 November 2019

British battleship Royal Oak 1914-at least 1923


Royal Sovereign type. Launched in 1914, completed in 1916, displacement 25.750 tons, horsepower 40.000 hp, oil-fired turbine direct drive machinery and an armament of 8-15” guns, 14-6” guns, 2-3” anti aircraft guns, 1-12pd field gun, 19-3pd guns and machineguns and 4 submerged torpedo tubes.

Source
Archive Dutch Naval Staff 1886-1942 (National Archive at the Hague, Netherlands)  inventory number 155. Fleets (the British Empire and foreign countries) on 1 February 1923