A culmination of nearly 15 years of vacation since the Nelson design and updated by the first London Treaty (1930), making for another vacancy of 1937. The Royal Navy’s first fast battleships, following the ten-year Washington Treaty ban were the King George V class. #royalnavy #ww2 #bismarck #battleship #kinggeorgev #princeofwales Genesis of the King George V design How the apparently odd choice of 14-in guns (356 mm) was made in the end ? This article dives into detail in the class design, debunks some myths and states it was better protected and faster than generally assumed, as well as each wartime action and career of the King George V, Prince of Wales, Duke of York, Howe and Anson.
These five fast battleship (still called “battlecruisers” in 1930) emerged from a long process of successive design requirements in the moratory, peacetime context of the interwar, going from 12 to 16-in main guns. The King Georges V class were not the last Battleship class of Great Britain (this goes to Vanguard), but the last to see action in WW2. King Georges V, Prince of Wales, Duke of York, Howe, Anson King Georges V class fast battleships (1938)
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