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	Battleships
		Battleships of the U.S.A. Stacking up the Numbers
		Ship names are in italics, class names in bold.
		For a separate list of battleships not completed, completed as other types of ship, or planned but never laid down, see the Battleships That Never Were page.
	thehistoryforum.com /battleships (213 words)

	HMS Cheviot - Phil Huntly
		Two vessels of this class were launched in 1944 by the Clyde yard of Stephen and Sons Ltd, HMS Chevron and the Cheviot (2/5/44).
		When King George VI, as a new king, was asked for his input to a class of five battleships, he chose King George V to commemorate his late father, Duke of York as his last title, Prince of Wales his brother and Anson and Howe made up the quintet.
		During the early ‘50’s she visited various countries around the area and was in the Suez Canal during the uprising against Egypt’s King Farouk where she escorted merchant vessels and was in fact in the Great Bitter Lake when King George VI died in 1953.
	www.coquetdale.net /articles/hmscheviot/hmscheviot.html (795 words)

	George VI of the United Kingdom Summary
		His father, the future George V, was the younger of the two sons of the then Prince of Wales, and was not expected ever to become king.
		George VI was also forced to buy the royal houses of Balmoral Castle and Sandringham House from Prince Edward, as these were private properties and did not pass to George VI on his accession.
		George VI was the last King of Ireland, succeeding to that title by the enactment of the External Relations Act, 1936, until its repeal in the Republic of Ireland Act, 1948 when Ireland also left the Commonwealth.
	www.bookrags.com /George_VI_of_the_United_Kingdom (3106 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)

	All Wood Wings: King George V Battleship Class - quality ship models crafted from wood
		"HMS King George V" King George V Class battleship
		It is a different class of ships than the earlier "King George V class" which was commissioned before WWI.
		"HMS King George V" was commissioned in December 1940 and served in the Atlantic, the Mediterranean and the Pacific.
	www.allwoodwings.com /Ships/Military/Battleships/UK-1939,KingGeorge,Class.htm (295 words)

	King George V Class Battleships
		Operated in 1943 with Force H. In July 1944, HMS King George V underwent a long refit, and in the autumn of 1944, went to the Pacific theatre to operate with the US Navy.
		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.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /kinggeorge.htm (1841 words)

	Large Modern Warship models
		The Mikasa was a battleship of the Imperial Japanese Navy and was the Flagship of Admiral Togo.
		She was usually referred to as "light" battleships, despite her 771ft long hulls and standard displacement of 34,841t, very close to the 35,000t treaty maximum.
		Battleship Massachusetts, known by her crew as "Big Mamie," was assigned as flagship for a covering force of warships supporting the invasion of North Africa, "Operation Torch." On November 8, 1942, she engaged the French battleship Jean Bart in a gun duel and fired the first American 16" projectile of World War II.
	www.modelshipmaster.com /products/modern_navy/index2.htm (2811 words)

	MaritimeDigital Archive Encyclopedia - Home > 003e Surface vessels (1920-1939) > Battleships - Super Dreadnoughts > ...
		The King George V class battleships were the second to last class of battleships completed by the Royal Navy.
		The King George V class was built in an era where the aircraft carrier supplanted the battleship but nonetheless King George V, Prince of Wales, and Duke of York all saw the battleship-to-battleship action that they were designed for.
		The planned successors to the KGV class were the Lion class battleships of some 40,000 tonnes with nine 16-inch (406 mm) guns.
	www.ibiblio.org /maritime/postcardlibrary/index.php?cat=1075 (2384 words)

	Royal Navy
		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.
		SEcond-line units by 1939 the Enterprise was to have her day when, in company with the cruiser Glasgow, she intercepted no les than ten enemy destroyers and torpedo boats in the bay of Biscay.
	homepage.eircom.net /~war/uknav.htm (1110 words)

	Naming conventions (ships) - meaning of word
		Uses of the class as a noun are not hyphenated, while adjectival references are hyphenated, as in Ohio class submarine submarine.
		When the class is named after its lead ship, italicise the name of that ship, for example the Lion class battlecruiser battlecruisers are named after HMS Lion (1910).
		But when the class is named after something its members share in common, don't italicise the name, for example the Battle class destroyer destroyers are named after battles: there is no HMS ''Battle'' (or at least none in that class).
	www.wordsonline.org /Naming_conventions_(ships) (9666 words)

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		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.
		The battlecruiser Hood was built during World War I while the Prince of Wales, commissioned in 1939, was a member of the King George V class of battleships.
	www.apple2.org.za /gswv/a2zine/Docs/Dreadnoughts.txt (7264 words)

	A Survey of the American Standard Type Battleship
		“Battleship 1917.” The Colorado was a duplicate of the previous design in every respect except for the adoption of twin 16”/45 caliber individual sleeve turrets in place of the triple 14”/50 caliber units.
		Regarding torpedo protection, the last two Classes of the series were certainly the most advanced in the world at the time of their introduction, and the older ships were comprehensively updated when reconstructed.
		The last five battleships were placed into reserve where they remained until disposed of in 1959, thus outlasting their every rival, including Nelson and Rodney as well as newer ships such as the Vittorio Veneto's and the King George V’s.
	www.navweaps.com /index_tech/tech-071.htm (5695 words)

	HMS King George V (1939) - P.R.Dobson.com
		During the Second World War, the five ships of the King George V class were the most modern battleships in commission with the Royal Navy, and all gave invaluable service for the war effort.
		Built to the Washington Treaty of 1922 which, arguably, was a pointless decision, given that other signatory nations were not adhering to it (Japan, Germany and Italy), the King George V class had a standard displacement of 35,000 tons, a waterline length of some seven-hundred feet, and a maximum speed of 28.5 knots.
		HMS King George V and HMS Prince of Wales were famously involved in the Battle of Denmark Strait in 1941.
	www.prdobson.com /project/hms-king-george-v-1939 (647 words)

	Battleship Bismarck, German Kriegsmarine
		The battleships, King George V and Rodney, sailed in line abreast about 550 meter (600 yards) apart toward the last reported position of the enemy.
		At 0912 - 1016, the Battleship Bismarck received multiple hits at point blank range between 2,500 (2,700 yards) and 4,000 meters (4,400 yards), but was still afloat.
		By 0920, the range had come down to 14,000 meter (15,000 yards) for the King George V and 9,000 meter (10,000 yards) for the Rodney.
	www.battleshipbismarck.com /bismarckclass/gallery/02_launch.php (410 words)

	Battleships & Battlecruisers
		During the Second World War (1939-1945) the Aircraft Carrier had established itself as the new capital ship- the day of the Battleship was well and truly over.
		In the immediate years after the War, the remaining battleships had uneventful careers fulfilling flag or training roles.
		The Royal Navy's last ever Battleship, HMS Vanguard, decommissioned on June 7th 1960.
	www.btinternet.com /~warship/Postwar/Battleships/index.htm (83 words)

	World War 2 Timelines 1939-1945 - War at Sea - Worldwar-2.net
		This timeline covers the naval war between the Western Allies and Axis navies between the years 1939 and 1945.
		Commander of the Bismarck's Naval Squadron 25th May 1941
		Contemporary with the Bismarck, the King George the V class of battleship was unlike the German vessel in that it was built in accordance with the London Treaty displacement limit of 35,000 tons.
	www.worldwar-2.net /timelines/war-at-sea/war-at-sea-index.htm (85 words)

	Warships - Battleships - Projected
		The 'H' class battleships were a part of Germany's "Z" plan, the German Navy's master plan to build a balanced fleet to challenge allied supremacy at sea.
		The first two ships were laid down in 1939, but were canceled that same year after war broke out and it became obvious that they could not be completed in time to affect the outcome.
		Unlike their immediate predecessors, the Iowa class, which were designed as escorts for the American fast carrier task forces (and which you can read about in my "Basic Characteristics Of The Post Treaty Battleships" essay), the Montanas were designed to slug it out with the best in the world.
	www.chuckhawks.com /super_battleships_projected.htm (3026 words)

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		I fully agree that it is a stylized representation of the KGV class, probably issued prior to the completion of the KGV itself, by Will's cigarettes, who had a tradition of including a card in each pack as part of their "The World's Dreadnoughts" sales promotion series.
		In 1939 John Player and Sons, producers of Player's Cigarettes and a branch of The Imperial Tobacco Company, LTD, produced two series of warship cards that were inserted into their cigarette packages.
		The battleship was only launched in 1939 and apparently from the painting, the superstructure details were less than certain.
	www.steelnavy.com /04JanMS1.htm (295 words)

	Betexa ZS s.r.o. - HMS Prince of Wales (Site not responding. Last check: )
		HMS Prince of Wales, a 35,000-ton King George V class battleship, was built by Cammell Laird in Birkenhead.
		She was launched on the 3rd May 1939 and completed in March 1941.
		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.
	www.betexa.cz /eng/pol_princeofwales.html (195 words)

	World Battleships List: Royal Navy Dreadnoughts
		The 1930's King George V class were the first British fast battleships, and the only modern British battleships in WWII.
		To depot ship 1939 with all main guns removed, badly damaged by bombs 17 Oct 1939, but she was repaired.
		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)

	Dreadnought
		Only 3 of the American and only 2 of the Japanese battleships would be finished, many old ships would be scrapped by Britain and the United States, and Britain would be allowed to build 2 new battleships to make up for the age of her remaining ships.
		Battleships missed their chance for many surface actions because they were being held back for the more "serious" fleet actions that never occurred.
		Of the earlier class of ships, the France had been lost in 1922, the Courbet and Paris escaped to Britain in 1940, and the Jean Bart, renamed Océan, was scuttled in Toulon in 1942 when the Germans moved to occupy all of France.
	www.friesian.com /dreadnot.htm (8819 words)

	Warship Pictures
		American battleship USS Oklahoma in the years before the attack on Pearl Harbor, where she was struck by multiple torpedoes and capsized in 11 minutes.
		British battleship HMS King George V in 1941, the year she engaged the Bismarck (photograph courtesy of the Imperial War Museum).
		Italian battleship Littorio (ex-Italia) on September 9, 1943 as she approaches Malta to surrender (photograph courtesy of the Imperial War Museum).
	www.chuckhawks.com /warship_pictures.htm (822 words)

	LemaireSoft's Class: King George V (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The King George V (1) have been unfairly underestimated because their modest size and armament, compared to the giants of the next generations produced by the US and the Japanese.
		The Prince of Wales's performances in the Denmark Strait was disappointing because of mechanical troubles with the turrets, but the King George V was quite good when finishing off the German battleship a few days later.
		In the meantime, the class had suffered its only loss during the war, the Prince of Wales (still her) engaged without air protection off Malaysia and sunk by Japanese aircraft.
	www.lemaire.happyhost.org /ship/classe1/5681.html (475 words)

	HMS King George V - HMS King George V
		Named for the reigning British monarch, HMS King George V was the first of a five-ship class that was criticized because it was weaker than the most powerful German battleships then afloat or building.
		In late May she was involved in the pursuit of Bismarck, and on the morning of the 27th, she and Rodney poured endless rounds into the doomed battleship.
		Active in northern waters through mid-1943, King George V collided with and sank the destroyer HMS Punjabi while on convoy duty in the spring of 1942.
	www.scalecraft.com /index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=952 (271 words)

	WWII Battleships :: Iowa Bismarck Yamato
		I think the Iowa class battleships were the all-around best battleships and the ones that I would put my life in the most.
		They also forget that the South Dakota class never took any significant damage in spite of being in combat for several years in a row (versus a few days for the Bismarck) and suffered a grand total of 38 deaths in her worst day.
		Nonetheless, the idea of battleship versus battleship combat is almost moot since the primrary cause of death or damage to battleships was from the air.
	www.peachmountain.com /5star/Other_TheBest.asp (5872 words)

	H.M.S. Hood Association-Battle Cruiser Hood - The History of H.M.S. Hood: Part 1 of The Pursuit of Bismarck and Sinking ...
		Launched on 14 February 1939, Bismarck was the first of the new breed of ships that German leader Adolf Hitler and Grand Admiral Raeder hoped would herald the rebirth of the German surface battle fleet in the tradition of the Kaiser's High Seas Fleet.
		Tovey himself sailed from Scapa Flow in his flagship King George V at 2245 hours on 22 May. They were accompanied by the aircraft carrier Victorious, the cruisers Galatea, Aurora, Kenya, and Hermione.
		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.
	www.hmshood.com /history/denmarkstrait/bismarck1.htm (4360 words)

	Bismarck's Final Battle - Part 1
		This large metacentric height, as compared to that of contemporary battleships (Table 2), was a function of the ample stability and low silhouette desired by the Germans.
		Although the Royal Navy was building five battleships of the King George V class armed with ten 14-inch/45 guns of a new and powerful model, these ships were acknowledged as being incapable of defeating either Bismarck or Tirpitz in single combat.
		Admiral Tovey, with King George V, Repulse, aircraft carrier Victorious, and screening ships, would not be able to join the Prince of Wales force until the morning of 25 May. Late in the afternoon of 24 May, in conditions of poor visibility, Prinz Eugen was successfully detached from Bismarck.
	www.navweaps.com /index_inro/INRO_Bismarck_p1.htm (5956 words)

	Sinking of HMS Barham
		The HMS Royal Oak, a Royal Sovereign class dreadnought, the HMS Prince of Wales, a King George V class and the HMS Barham, a Queen Elizabeth class, which was a modernized warship from World War One.
		The third battleship sunk was the HMS Prince of Wales, the most powerful and modern warship in the Royal Navy when she was torpedoed and bombed by Japanese aircraft.
		Reassigned to the Mediterranean Fleet, she was damaged by the French battleship Richelieu during an attempt to capture Dakar on September 1940.
	www.uboataces.com /battle-barham.shtml (1458 words)

	Prince of Wales HMS Battleship, Repulse, Hood Battlecruisers
		HMS Prince of Wales, a 35,000-ton King George V class battleship built Birkenhead, England, was completed in March 1941.
		Later in the year she was sent to the Far East, accompanying the new battleship Prince of Wales.
		In May 1941, in company with the new battleship Prince of Wales, she was sent out to search for the German battleship Bismarck, which had left Norway for the Atlantic.
	www.battle-fleet.com /pw/his/hms.htm (1070 words)

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