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	HMS King George V (41) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Following the tradition of naming battleships after the current monarch, she was originally to be named King George VI (after George VI).
		King George V was built by Vickers-Armstrong at Walker's Naval Yard, Newcastle upon Tyne and laid down on 1 January 1937, launched on 21 February 1939, and commissioned on 11 December 1940.
		From 1944 until the surrender of Japan, King George V served with the British Pacific Fleet, and was present at Japan during the official surrender ceremony.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_King_George_V_(41) (450 words)

	King george v, hms king george v (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		King george v Reference.com/Encyclopedia/George V of the United Kingdom, hms king george v..
		King George V Class Battleship - HMS King George V, Centurion.
		King George V Dock was built to enhance and extend the trade that was passing though the Royal Victoria and Albert Docks.
	www.brokerage-account.org /king_george_v.html (1246 words)

	King George V Class Battleship - HMS King George V, Centurion, Audacious, Ajax
		HMS King George V. The mast is forward of the funnels, for good this time, and originally was a light pole rather than the more normal heavy tripod.
		The secondary armament was re-arranged to improve forward fire after it was found during manoeuvres that during a torpedo attack the forward anti-torpedo boats guns fired twice as often as the rear ones.
		In June 1914 the four ships of the class visited Kiel and King George V was visited by the Kaiser in his first visit to a British battleship.
	www.worldwar1.co.uk /battleship/hms-king-george-v.html (303 words)

	About King George VI :: The Roosevelts and the Royals by Will Swift
		His father, the future George V, was a remote and controlling figure, less an encouraging parent than a sharp-tongued naval commander, committed to maintaining the dignity of the Crown and ensuring that his children adhere to its protocols and traditions.
		King George V thought his younger son, the Duke of York, who shared his sense of responsibility and a sturdy integrity, would make a superb king.
		He was crowned King George VI in May 1937 at a time when European dictators were beginning to rattle their swords.
	willswift.com /king_george_vi.htm (1139 words)

	King George V
		Delays and wartime shortages meant that King George V was the only one commissioned in 1940; Prince of Wales did not join the Fleet until May 1941, Duke of York at the end of that year and the Howe and Anson in 1942.
		Apart from the Japanese giants, the King George V Class had the heaviest armour of any of the battleships of the period, including the Bismarck.
		The outstanding event in the career of the King George V was the sinking of the Bismarck on 27 May 1941.
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	Chapter-32 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Cruiser HMS Devonshire, Dorsetshire HMAS Canberra (all of Counties class).
		At 1304h, when trying to protect the damaged RN battleship Prince of Wales, the cruiser was hit by a large enemy twin-engine bombers which her 3in and single 40mm Bofors had apparently disabled.
		The RN navy is still operating a convoy escort squadron (one Royal Sovereign class battleships and 4 destroyers) and some light naval forces in the Malacca Strait.
	users.domaindlx.com /fantasque/original/Chapter-32.htm (3481 words)

	Royal Navy
		Rodney, along with King George V, battered the Bismarck.Both were scrapped in 1948/9.
		Three of the class were struck by submarine torpedo's during the war but only the Royal Oak, hit by at least two, was sunk.
		This class of five reverted to a smaller 14-in calibre main battery because the Londen Navel Conference of 1936 limited the standard displacement of individual battleships to 35,000 tons.
	homepage.eircom.net /~steven/uknav.htm (1144 words)

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		These were the last days of the great battleships, when Germany and Great Britain fought for control of the North Atlantic and the important supply convoy of the North Atlantic and the important supply convoy routes from America.
		The King George V class, consisting of five battleships with ten 14-inch guns, was in keeping with the agreements.
		The King George V was launched in December 1940, in time to meet the Bismarck's last sortie in May 1941.
	www.apple2.org.za /gswv/a2zine/Docs/Dreadnoughts.txt (7264 words)

	King George V's Visits to Scapa Flow
		King George made several visits to the Grand Fleet in Scapa Flow, the first in July 1915, another in July 1916 when he stayed overnight on HMS Iron Duke and visited the flagships of all the squadrons in the Flow (to congratulate them on the Battle of Jutland).
		King George V made another visit to Scapa in June 1917, arriving on HMS Castor during a Force 8 gale and thunderstorm on Thursday 21st.
		On Saturday 23rd the King visited the submarine depot-ship Lucia (formerly the German Spreewald), then lunched with Admiral Sturdee in HMS Hercules, before returning to Queen Elizabeth to sail with her, Barham, Malaya, Warspite and Valiant for firing practice in the Pentland Firth.
	www.gwpda.org /naval/kgvscapa.htm (930 words)

	Yamato - FileFront Gaming Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Unlike the battleships of other countries it's whole superstructure (bridge and every structure abbove the deck) was armoured against 15 inch battleship grenades, and the armoured belt even could resist 18 inch grenades.
		Brittish battleships could not have even dented it.....(including the George V class, the Prince of Wales is a George V class...ther goes realism, FH devs) while in return Brittish battleship superstructure would have been blown right off by the terrible 18 inch (360 mm) armour breeching grenades of the Yamato class.
		You can see though that a King George V was actually superior to a Bismarck class when it comes to armour, very important for a battleship that must absorb grenades the weight of a car times velocity.
	www.gamingforums.com /showthread.php?t=108716 (3208 words)

	Battleship "Vanguard"
		The one serious fault was that the turrets were designed for a ship with shell rooms below the magazines, and for the contrary arrangement, which was now standard practice, it was necessary to have the magazine handing rooms on the lower deck above the shell rooms with fixed hoists from the magazines below.
		From this suggestion a design of a 40.000-ton battleship was produced, in which the weight saved by incorporating a comparatively light main armament was used to provide a speed of 30 knots.
		She was completed too late to be of any practical use, and became known as the only British battleship never to fire her guns in anger.
	www.warship.get.net.pl /WBrytania/Battleships/1946_Vanguard_class/_Vanguard_class.html (438 words)

	Russian Convoys and the Duke Of York - The Story Of John Hornby 1901-1974, Royal Navy 1915-1945
		My father was given the choice, he told us, of staying with Repulse, or moving, on promotion to the brand new King George V class battleship, HMS "Duke of York" often referred to by him as the "Duke of Work".
		In between times, on the 8th June 1942, the ship was used to transport HM the King George VI to Quebec, Canada via Halifax, and there are photographs and documents in the archives about the event.
		When we had disembarked from the battleship a bulky sack was lowered onto the deck of the launch containing a vast quantity of buns.
	www.heskethbank.com /genealogy/johnhornby/chapter08.html (1478 words)

	King George V Class Battleships
		In 1946 HMS King George V went into Reserve Fleet, and on the 20th January 1958 was scrapped at Dalmuir and Troon.
		King George V battleship, Notice Board for naval enthusiasts and ex Crew families of King George V. This website is not part of any governmental body or official websites of King George V battleship.
		My grandfather served on HMS King George V and took many photographs of the crew and ship which are still in the family.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /kinggeorge.htm (1927 words)

	World Battleships List: Royal Navy Dreadnoughts
		The Renown class was similarly reconstructed; a massive reconstruction for Hood was cancelled by war.
		The 1930's King George V class were the first British fast battleships, and the only modern British battleships in WWII.
		All ships of the class were scheduled to be refitted to this standard, but the outbreak of war prevented it.
	www.hazegray.org /navhist/battleships/rn_dr.htm (3135 words)

	Chapter-31 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Both enemy battleships were hit, Repulse so severely (by two or three torpedoes) that she stopped firing and left the enemy line.
		The damaged battleships (covered by 9 A5M4 fighters from Shoho and Zuiho), were located by the enemy’s own twin engined torpdeo bombers, about 20 in number.
		Main battery was directed at vessel identified as a KING GEORGE V class battleship, upon which this vessel claims three hits.
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	Emerald Hammer
		Bismarck and her consort, the "Hipper" class cruiser Prinz Eugen, were initially detected at 0725, 23 May 1941, by the "County" class cruiser HMS Suffolk, patrolling (together with her sister ship HMS Norfolk) in the Denmark Strait.
		The battlecruiser HMS Hood, the "King George V" class battleship "Prince of Wales", and six destroyers (Electra, Echo, Icarus, Antelope, Anthony, and Achates), had already been dispatched from their base at Scapa Flow, under VADM Lancelot E. Holland, for a possible intercept.
		Modoc was close enough to Bismarck that she is nearly hit by some of the battleship's AA fire a little later, and the Coast Guardsmen had a "ringside seat", for the first air attack of a battleship at sea.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /phillip.ward2/hammer/documents/bismark.html (1842 words)

	"Erin" Class Battleship
		When war broke out in August 1914 two battleships had nearly been completed for Turkey and they were seized by order of the First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill.
		The first of these, the Reshadieh (ex- Reshad V) had been one of a pair ordered in 1911, but the Reshad-i-Hammiss was cancelled in 1912 and replaced by a purchase from Brazil.
		The hull was shorter and beamier and the mid-ships 'Q' 13.5in turret was a deck higher, which made for better shooting in a seaway and the battery was marginally better arranged than in her British contemporaries.
	www.warship.get.net.pl /WBrytania/Battleships/1914_Erin_class/_Erin_class.html (254 words)

	Princeofwales (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		For a split second the forward motion of the ship was halted; eye witness accounts state that the force of this explosion was so severe it felt as though the 35,000 ton battleship was thrown in the air.
		King George V, same class battleship as Prince of Wales (1939): 36,750 tons, 745 ft. Engines and speed: Turbines, 125,000 hp, 28 knots.
		As with many of her crew, the memories of an earlier battle in May 1941 was still uppermost in his thoughts.
	www.burmastar.org.uk /princeofwales.htm (1750 words)

	Royal Navy Losses In World War Two quiz -- free game (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		I was a veteran Royal Sovereign class battleship.
		I was a King George V class Battleship.
		I was an Erebus class Monitor and on February 22, 1941 I was in Benghazi harbour.
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=29140 (378 words)

	Channel 4 - Classic Weapons of World War II - Marine
		The Duke of York boasted 10 massive all-steel, 14-inch guns, eight of which were carried by two huge four-gun turrets, as part of the new arms race.
		This King George V Class Battleship could fire a 35cm / 14in 721kg / 1,590lb shell over 35,000m / 38,500yd.
		Her most famous actions included covering vessel for the attacks on the ship Tirpitz and battles with the German battleship Scharnhorst in December 1943, where Duke of York fired nearly 500 14in shells in an action that saw the Scharnhorst destroyed.
	www.channel4.com /history/microsites/W/ww2weapons/marine/battleship1.html (191 words)

	segunartkgv (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The RN capital ships, such as the KG V class, played an important role in subduing the threat posed by heavily armed surface raiders such as the German battleship Bismarck.
		Henceforth, the battleship was now used chiefly as a platform for large numbers of anti-aircraft guns or in naval gunfire support to amphibious operations with the massive firepower it possessed.
		The great battleships, designed and intended to dominate the war at sea, became supporting players in what was fundamentally a convoy and carrier naval war.
	www.segunart.com /segunartkgv.htm (295 words)

	Betexa ZS s.r.o. - HMS Prince of Wales (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		HMS Prince of Wales, a 35,000-ton King George V class battleship, was built by Cammell Laird in Birkenhead.
		In late May, while still not fully operational, she was sent into action with the German battleship Bismarck and received significant damage from heavy gunfire.
		Japan torpedo bombers hit battleship HMS Prince of Wales several times and succeeded to sink her.
	www.betexa.cz /eng/pol_princeofwales.html (195 words)

	British Battleships
		The King George V class battleship HMS Anson is pictured in Sydney Harbour where she joined the Pacific Fleet in July 1945, viewed across the flight deck of HMS Vengeance, where ten of her Vought F4.U Corsairs are ranged in front of a single folded Fairey Barracuda.
		The R-Class battleship HMS Revenge slips majestically past the carrier HMS Furious as she lies at anchor as three of her Fairey IIIFs fly overhead on a routine training sortie.
		Launched in January 1915, the Revenge-class battleship HMS Resolution was to enjoy a 33 year career during which she served in the Atlantic, home and Eastern Fleets as well as serving repeated spells in the Mediterranean, being both bombed and torpedoed along the way.
	www.militaryartcompany.com /british_battleships.htm (2871 words)

	King George V Class : History & Modifications (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		She was based at Portsmouth for this role until April 1941 when she was given a wood and canvas superstructure to make her look like the new battleship Anson, in order to confuse the enemy.
		Between 1942 and 1944 she was stationed at the Suez Canal as a AA ship.
		She was used as a training ship between 1923 and 1926, and sold for scrapping in December 1926.
	web.ukonline.co.uk /aj.cashmore/britain/battleships/kgv1/history.html (228 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Warships - King George V class Battleships
		The King George V class battleship HMS Prince of Wales.
		In all ships the Anti-aircraft armament was increased during the war.
		1 battleship of the King George V class lost.
	uboat.net /allies/warships/class.html?ID=57 (98 words)

	U.S. Navy Battleships - USS Washington (BB 56)
		At sunset on the 13th, Rear Admiral Lee took Washington, USS South Dakota (BB-57), and four destroyers and headed for Savo Island, the scene of the disastrous night action of 8 and 9 August, to be in position to intercept the Japanese convoy and its covering force.
		The Japanese force proved to be the battleship Kirishima, the heavy cruisers Atago and Takao, the light cruisers Sendai and Nagara, and a screen of nine destroyers escorting four transports.
		Three days later, the battleship, along with the rest of the task group, put to sea to make rendezvous with elements of TF 58, the fast carrier task force under the overall command of Vice Admiral Marc A. "Pete" Mitscher.
	www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/ships/battleships/washington/bb56-wash.html (4072 words)

	Category:Royal Navy battleships - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Royal Navy battleships include battleships commissioned into Royal Navy service.
		See also: Categories: Battleships of the United Kingdom
		There are 23 subcategories shown below (more may be shown on subsequent pages).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Category:Royal_Navy_battleships (89 words)

	Navy News - Letters to the Editor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		She was armed with 7 x 7.5 inch guns and various smaller guns and torpedo tubes.
		Prince of Wales – A King George V class battleship completed in 1941 and sunk in 1941 by Japanese aircraft.
		About the ships is inscribed “R. A curator at the Royal Naval Museum in Portsmouth inspected the photograph and concluded that it was probably a personal item to commemorate a sailor’s naval service, rather than a ship’s bell.
	www.navynews.co.uk /letters/2006/0601/060120_01.asp (335 words)

	Bismark sinking of the HMS Hood
		It was the first time the new German battleship had fired salvoes in anger and it served as a warning to the British of the deadly accuracy of Bismarck's guns.
		Meanwhile, Tovey, in King George V had linked up with the battleship Rodney and began to pursue Bismarck, which was 130 miles / 240 km ahead of them.
		During the morning of 27th May, a combined British force, led by King George V and Rodney, finally caught and engaged Bismarck.
	www.modelshipsmuseum.ca /ships/collection/static_hood_bismark.cfm (11005 words)

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