BRITAIN WILL BUILD 2 NEW BATTLESHIPS (2/16/39)

Microfiche-New York Times archives, McHenry Library, U.C. Santa Cruz | 2/16/39 | Ferdinand Kuhn Jr.

[Cheburashka]

KG V class?

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Five KGV’s were to be built, then 4 Lion class. All five KGV’s were completed. If you read the story closely you find out these were the second two Lion class. Because of the start of the war they never were actually laid down.

[snippy_about_it]

LOL. As my husband reads over my shoulder he says, “What, why would Britain be building battleships”?

I say...it’s 1939!

[CougarGA7]

LOL! Thank goodness we weren’t talking about the German concentration camps.

[Oztrich Boy]

Closest I could find that this may be the earmarks for the (never built) Conqueror and Thunderer which were Lion class.

They were. Actually reading the original article reaveals those orders would bring the number of Battleships under construction to nine, and carriers to six.

Allowing for the 5 KGVs and 2 Lions already ordered, it makes the battlerships Conqueror and Thunderer. And the carrier the Indefagitable.