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Friday 25 December 2015

British dreadnought battleship HMS Orion 1909-1923

Source: Fleets of the world 1915. Compiled from official sources and classified according to types

Of the Orion-class. Laid down at the Portsmouth Dockyard on 29 November 1909, launched on 20 August 1910, sea trials begun in September 1911, commissioned on 2 January 1912, seagoing gunnery training ship stationed at Portland since June 1921, paid off on 12 April 1922, decided to dispose her as a result of the Washington Treaty, sold to shipbreakers firm Cox and Danks on 19 December 1922 and broken up at Upnor in February 1923.

Displacement 22.000 long tons/22.000 tons (standard)-25.870 long tons/26.280 tons (maximum) and as dimensions 177 x 27,00 x 7,47 metres or 581 x 88.7 x 24.6 feet. Horsepower 27.000 shp/20MW supplied by 4 Parsons steam turbines and 18 boilers delivered by 4 shafts allowing a speed of 21 knots. Her crew numbered 750-1.100 men. The armament consisted of 5x2-13.5”/34.29 cm Mk V breech loading guns, 16-4”/10,16cm Mk VII guns and 3-21”/53cm torpedo tubes (submerged).