British Armstrong Whitworth design No. 740 of a stock battleship dated April 1912

Design No. 740©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Japanese battleship Fuso©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Displacement 31,500 ton and as dimensions 650 (between perpendiculars)-685 (over all) x 96 x 31.25 feet. Armament consisted of 6x2-35.56cm/14 inch 50 cal guns, 16x1-15.24cm/6” 50 cal guns and 4 submerged 53.34cm/21” torpedo tubes. Estimated speed 23 knots. Friedman (The British Battleship 1906-1940) and others claimed that this design was used as proposal for what became the Japanese dreadnought Fuso, laid down by the Kure Naval Arsenal on 11 March 1912. Japanese designers had at the time access to British information like files from Vickers dealing with double and triple gun turrets designs. Sie for instance the Hiraga archive.