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Thursday, 28 November 2019

British battleship Warspite 1913-at least 1923


Queen Elizabeth-class

 National Archive, The Hague, Netherlands. Original source

Queen Elizabeth type. Launched in 1913, completed in 1915, displacement 27.500 tons, horsepower 75.000, oil-fired turbine direct drive machinery and an armament of 8-15” guns, 12-6” 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.