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To: Homer_J_Simpson

KG V class?


4 posted on 02/16/2009 7:44:32 AM PST by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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To: PzLdr
KG V class?

Believe so.

The Royal Navy, still the largest in the world in September 1939, included: 15 Battleships & battlecruisers, of which only two were post-World War 1. Five 'King George V' class battleships were building.

http://www.naval-history.net/WW2CampaignRoyalNavy.htm

7 posted on 02/16/2009 7:57:59 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: PzLdr

I think these were the Lion class battleships. They were supposed to have 16 inch guns like the Nelsons. One was canceled and the other, the King George V was given the 4 15 turrets taken off the Glorious and Courageous to speed up construction.


33 posted on 02/16/2009 11:11:36 AM PST by rmlew
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To: PzLdr
KG V class?

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.
41 posted on 02/16/2009 2:44:59 PM PST by Cheburashka (Liberalism: a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.)
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