Class of British battleships
|
Class overview
|
Name
| Queen Elizabeth
class
|
Operators
|
Royal Navy
|
Preceded by
| Iron Duke
class
|
Succeeded by
| Revenge
class
|
In commission
| 1914?1947
|
Planned
| 6
|
Completed
| 5
|
Cancelled
| 1
|
Lost
| 1
|
Scrapped
| 4
|
General characteristics (as built)
|
Type
| Super dreadnought battleship
|
Displacement
| |
Length
| 643 ft 9 in (196.2 m) (
o/a
)
|
Beam
| 90 ft 7 in (27.6 m)
|
Draught
| 33 ft 7 in (10.2 m) (
deep load
)
|
Installed power
| |
Propulsion
| 4 shafts; 2
steam turbine
sets
|
Speed
| 24
knots
(44 km/h; 28 mph)
|
Range
| 5,000 nmi (9,260 km; 5,750 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
|
Complement
|
- 923?951 (as completed)
- 1,249?1,262 (as flagships, 1920)
|
Armament
| |
Armour
| |
The
Queen Elizabeth
-class battleships
were a group of five
super-dreadnoughts
built for the
Royal Navy
during the 1910s. These battleships were superior in firepower, protection and speed to their Royal Navy predecessors of the
Iron Duke
class
as well as preceding German classes such as the
Konig
class
. The corresponding
Bayern
-class
ships were generally considered competitive, although the
Queen Elizabeth
class were 2 knots (3.7 km/h) faster and outnumbered the German class 5:2. The
Queen Elizabeth
s are generally considered the first
fast battleships
of their day.
The
Queen Elizabeth
s were the first battleships to be armed with
15-inch (381 mm) guns
, and were described in the 1919 edition of
Jane's Fighting Ships
as "the most successful type of capital ship yet designed."
[1]
They saw much service in both world wars.
Barham
was lost to a
U-boat
attack in 1941, but the others survived the wars and were scrapped in the late 1940s.
Background and design
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Right plan and elevation drawing from
Brassey's Naval Annual
1923; the shaded areas represent the ships' armour plating
The early design history of the
Queen Elizabeth
class is not well known because not many records have survived in the files of the
Admiralty
. When
Winston Churchill
became
First Lord of the Admiralty
in October 1911, the ships of the 1911?1912 Naval Programme, the four
Iron Duke
-class
battleships and the battlecruiser
HMS
Tiger
were being ordered and preliminary design work had begun on the new class of battleships scheduled for the 1912?1913 Naval Programme. Each class received its own alphabetical designation with the
Iron Duke
s being MIV, the fourth major iteration of Design M. Presumably the improved 1912?1913 ships were Design N, but no details of it have been found in Admiralty records. The letter O was not used during this time. Naval historian
Norman Friedman
believes that Design P was a slow ship armed with ten 15-inch (381 mm) guns based on a passing reference in the official history of naval construction during the First World War that such a ship was a precursor to the
Queen Elizabeth
s.
[2]
Churchill and the retired
First Sea Lord
,
Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fisher
corresponded at length during this time with Fisher advocating for a fast (probably 28-
knot
(52 km/h; 32 mph)) ship armed with eight guns and nearly as well armoured as a battleship, something that he sometimes called a "super-Lion", referring to the battlecruiser
HMS
Lion
. Friedman believes that the
Director of Naval Construction
(DNC), Sir
Philip Watts
, designated Fisher's concept as Design Q with a slower version being the
Queen Elizabeth
class as Design R. "The destruction of papers may thus have concealed the reality that instead of being a spectacular advance on previous battleships, the
Queen Elizabeth
s were a slow version of a ship which Fisher and probably Churchill badly wanted. Much of the fragmentary evidence for the fast ship is to be found in Fisher's letters to Churchill."
[3]
The tactical mission of these ships is portrayed as being fast enough to manoeuvre to catch the head of the enemy's
battleline
and concentrate fire against it,
[4]
but they were actually intended to prevent the German battlecruisers, which were more heavily armoured than their British equivalents, from doing the same to the British fleet. A memo from Churchill to
Rear-Admiral
Gordon Moore
,
Third Sea Lord
, on 27 October 1912, stated "the speed and power of the
Queen Elizabeth
s...is sufficient to protect the battle fleet against any turning movement by German battlecruisers.
[5]
Influenced by Fisher, Churchill ordered development of the 42-
calibre
BL 15-inch Mk I gun
using the codename "14inch Experimental" in January 1912. This was a risky decision as development of new heavy guns and their
turrets
was normally a multi-year project, and a failure would seriously delay the completion of the ships. The first gun turret was successfully tested on 6 May 1914, likely much to the relief of the Admiralty.
[6]
The Admiralty decided on the design of the
Queen Elizabeth
s on 15 June 1912, with the decision on whether they would solely use
fuel oil
deferred to a subsequent meeting. That meeting must have happened very shortly afterwards because the design that received the Board's stamp the following day was oil-fueled. The design had not been optimised to burn oil instead of coal and the fuel tanks had different requirements than the coal bunkers previously planned.
Eustace Tennyson d'Eyncourt
, the DNC who followed Watts, estimated that the change so late in the design process cost some 300
long tons
(300
t
) that could have been put to better use. To guarantee a supply of oil in wartime, Churchill negotiated the
Anglo-Persian Oil Convention
.
[7]
Fisher also believed that the 1912?1913 ships should all be battlecruisers instead of the usual mix of three battleships and a battlecruiser. Churchill initially agreed with him, but was persuaded to go back to the original plan, much to Fisher's fury.
[6]
Given the speed of the new ships, envisaged as 25 knots (46 km/h; 29 mph), it was decided that the battlecruiser would not be needed and a fourth battleship would be built instead. When the
Federation of Malay States
offered to fund a further capital ship, the Admiralty decided to add a fifth unit to the class,
HMS
Malaya
.
[8]
In some respects, the ships did not quite fulfil their extremely demanding requirement. They were seriously overweight, as a result of which the draught was excessive and they were unable to reach the planned top speed of 25 knots. In the event, the combination of oil fuel and more boilers provided for a service speed of about 24 knots (44 km/h; 28 mph), still a useful improvement on the traditional battle line speed of 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph) and just fast enough to be thought of as the first
fast battleships
.
[9]
After Jutland Admiral
John Jellicoe
was persuaded that the slowest ship of this class was good only for about 23 knots (43 km/h; 26 mph), he concluded that, since this should be considered as the speed of the squadron, it would not be safe to risk them in operations away from the main battlefleet.
Description
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The ships of the
Queen Elizabeth
class were 600 feet 6 inches (183.0 m)
long between perpendiculars
, 634 ft 6 in (193.4 m)
long at the waterline
, and had a
length overall
of 643 ft 9 in (196.2 m), excluding the
sternwalk
fitted on several ships. They had a
beam
of 90 feet 6 inches (28 m) and a
draught
of 33 feet 7 inches (10.2 m) at
deep load
. They had a normal displacement of approximately 32,590 long tons (33,113 t) and 33,260 long tons (33,790 t) at
deep load
. The ships had a
metacentric height
of 6.5 feet (2.0 m) at deep load. Their crew numbered between 923 and 951 officers and
ratings
as completed; by 1920, the number of crew had grown to 1,016 then to 1,025. Service as a flagship increased these numbers from 1,249 to 1,262 that same year.
[10]
[11]
They were powered by two sets of
direct-drive steam turbines
,
Parsons units
were fitted in
Queen Elizabeth
,
Warspite
and
Malaya
while
Barham
and
Valiant
had
Brown-Curtis turbines
. The latter pair were not equipped with the cruising turbines to improve fuel economy at slow speeds used in the first three ships. Each turbine set drove two shafts with 12-foot (3.7 m), three-bladed
propellers
, using steam provided by 24
Babcock & Wilcox boilers
at a working pressure of 235
psi
(1,620
kPa
; 17
kgf/cm
2
) in all but
Warspite
and
Barham
, which received boilers manufactured by
Yarrow
. The boilers were ducted into a pair of
funnels
. The turbines were divided into three watertight compartments arranged side by side; the low-pressure turbines driving the inner pair of shafts were in the centre engine room together, while the high-pressure outboard turbines were in the rooms on either side.
[12]
The turbines were rated at 75,000
shaft horsepower
(56,000
kW
) at overload and were intended to give the ships a maximum speed of 25
knots
(46 km/h; 29 mph),
[13]
although they fell short of that. Due to the war only
Barham
ran her
sea trials
on a measured course; in August 1916 she reached a top speed of 23.9 knots (44.3 km/h; 27.5 mph) from 70,788 shp (52,787 kW) at deep load.
[14]
Fuel storage amounted to 3,400 long tons (3,500 t) of fuel oil which enabled the ships to steam for 5,000
nautical miles
(9,300 km; 5,800 mi) at a cruising speed of 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph), which fell to 1,600 nautical miles (3,000 km; 1,800 mi) at full speed.
[13]
Armament and fire control
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The
Queen Elizabeth
class was equipped with eight
breech-loading (BL)
15-inch Mk I guns in four twin-gun turrets, in two
superfiring pairs
fore and aft of the superstructure, designated 'A', 'B', 'X', and 'Y' from front to rear. The guns were initially supplied with 80 shells per gun, but the
magazines
were later modified to allow for up to one hundred shells per gun.
[13]
The ships carried the guns in Mk I mounts that allowed for
elevation
to 20 degrees and depression to -5 degrees. The mounts had a weight of 782 t and a train of- 150 to + 150 degrees. The guns themselves had a weight of 101 t.
[15]
They could be loaded at any angle, but the crews typically returned to +5 degrees, since the guns could be cleared faster that way. They fired 1,929-pound (875 kg) projectiles at a
muzzle velocity
of 2,450 ft/s (750 m/s) to a range of 24,423 yards (22,332 m). Their designed
rate of fire
was one shot every 36 seconds.
[16]
The gun even remained competitive in the
Second World War
after receiving further shell upgrades and mountings with greater elevation, and HMS
Warspite
would eventually record a hit during the
Battle of Calabria
which to this day is one of the longest-range naval gunnery hits in history - 24,000 metres (26,000 yd).
The guns could elevate to 20° and depress to ?5°, but the turret sights could only elevate 15°, effectively limiting the range that could be achieved unless firing under director control. The sights were equipped to permit the guns to fire at full charge or with
3
⁄
4
charge.
[17]
Queen Elizabeth
c. 1918 showing the two aft port secondary casemates plated over
Forecastle
deck gun as added to all ships in 1915?1916, here seen on
Warspite
after
Jutland
The ships'
secondary battery
consisted of sixteen 45-calibre
BL 6-inch (152 mm) Mk XII
guns.
[13]
The guns had a muzzle velocity of 2,825 ft/s (861 m/s) from their 100-pound (45 kg) projectiles. At their maximum elevation of 15 degrees, they had a range of 13,600 yd (12,400 m).
[18]
As designed twelve of these were mounted in
casemates
on the
upper deck
, six of each on the
broadside
of the vessel
amidships
; the remaining four guns were on the
main deck
aft abreast 'Y' turret. In an effort to ameliorate the flooding problems that the casemated guns in the
Iron Duke
-class ships had in heavy seas, the guns in the
Queen Elizabeth
s were moved back from abreast 'A' turret to 'B' turret, but this made little difference in service. The aft guns were more prone to flood and were virtually useless even in moderate seas. Only
Queen Elizabeth
was completed with them; one pair was removed and the other was repositioned on the
forecastle
and protected by
gun shields
in May 1915. The casemates were plated over to improve their seaworthiness. The other ships were similarly modified while
fitting-out
.
[19]
Each gun was provided with 130
rounds
. Stowage was provided for 30 rounds at each gun as the only ammunition hoists for them were located at the forward end of the battery.
Captain
Morgan Singer
, commander of the RN's gunnery school
HMS
Excellent
, criticized this arrangement, saying that it had been proven inefficient in the pre-dreadnought battleships and he recommended using
dredger
hoists
as they were much faster. His comments were rejected as the Admiralty believed that the guns would only intermittently be in use as destroyers attempted to close to torpedo range and they desired to maintain a break in the
cordite
supply between the magazines and the battery. In service this led to the gun crews keeping additional rounds immediately available at the guns in case they were needed.
[20]
This resulted in an ammunition fire aboard
Malaya
during the
Battle of Jutland
that nearly resulted in the loss of the ship.
[21]
The ships also mounted four
3-pounder
(47-millimetre (1.9 in))
saluting guns
. Their
anti-aircraft
(AA) armament consisted of two
quick-firing (QF)
3-inch (76 mm) 20 cwt Mk I
[i]
guns. They were fitted with four submerged 21-inch (533 mm)
torpedo tubes
, two on each broadside. Each ship was supplied with a total of 20
Mk II or Mk IV torpedoes
.
[13]
The
Queen Elizabeth
-class ships were completed with two
fire-control directors
. The one that was mounted above the
conning tower
was protected by an armoured hood and was fitted with a 15-foot (4.6 m)
rangefinder
. The other director was on top of the
tripod mast
and was equipped with a 9-foot (2.7 m). The main armament could be controlled by 'X' turret as well and each turret was fitted with a 15-foot rangefinder. A torpedo-control director with a 9-foot rangefinder was mounted at the aft end of the superstructure.
[
citation needed
]
The secondary armament was primarily controlled by directors mounted on each side of the compass platform on the foremast once they began to be fitted in March 1917. The rangefinders in 'B' and 'X' turrets were replaced by 30-foot (9.1 m) models between 1919 and 1922.
[22]
Flying-off platforms
were fitted on all the ships on the roofs of 'B' and 'X' turrets in 1918. Between them the ships carried three fighters and seven
reconnaissance aircraft
.
[23]
Armour
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Armour protection was modified from the previous
Iron Duke
class
, with a thicker belt and improved underwater protection.
[8]
The scale of deck armour was less generous, though typical of contemporary practice.
Ships
[
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]
A further ship was authorised in 1914 and would have been named
Agincourt
(a name later applied to
a dreadnought expropriated from Ottoman Turkey
). Although most sources and several official papers in the class's
Ships Cover
[ii]
describe her as a further repeat of the
Queen Elizabeth
design, one historian - Nicholas Lambert - has suggested that
Agincourt
would have been built on battlecruiser lines. This design would have kept the
Queen Elizabeth
armament, but substituted thinner armour down to 10 inches (254 mm) instead of 12 inches (305 mm), for example] in order to gain a 28-knot (52 km/h; 32 mph) top speed.
[24]
Whatever the case,
Agincourt
was cancelled at the outbreak of war in 1914.
[25]
The cancellation, proposed by Churchill in memoranda of 1 and 14 June 1914, was intended to shave around £900,000 off that year's naval estimates, which had met with resistance from leading members of the ruling Liberal Party. It had been proposed to build a new type of semi-submersible
torpedo cruiser
, the
Polyphemus
class, in place of
Agincourt
, and submarines in place of another planned battleship,
HMS
Resistance
, and in place of all but two or three of that year's planned destroyers.
[26]
Service
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First World War
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In the
First World War
,
Queen Elizabeth
was detached from the squadron and took part in the
Dardanelles Campaign
, but missed Jutland as she was undergoing dock maintenance.
At the
Battle of Jutland
, four of the ships formed Admiral
Hugh Evan-Thomas
's
5th Battle Squadron
, and in the clash with the German 1st Scouting Group under Admiral
Franz von Hipper
they "fired with extraordinary rapidity and accuracy" (according to
Admiral Scheer
, commander of the High Seas Fleet), damaging
SMS
Lutzow
and
SMS
Seydlitz
and a number of other German warships. These battleships were able to engage German battlecruisers at a range of 19,000 yards (17,400 m), which was beyond the maximum range of the Germans' guns.
[27]
Three of the
Queen Elizabeth
s received hits from German warships during the engagement, yet they all returned home.
Warspite
was the most heavily damaged, with her rudder jammed and taking fifteen hits, coming close to foundering.
Between the wars
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Between the wars, the ships received considerable upgrades, including new machinery, small-tube boilers, deck armour upgrades,
torpedo belt
armour, trunked funnels, new secondary armament and anti-aircraft armament, and many improvements in gunlaying and electronics.
Queen Elizabeth
,
Valiant
, and
Warspite
were the most modernised, with all three receiving the new "
Queen Anne's Mansions
" block superstructure for the bridge, whilst twenty 4.5" dual-purpose guns in 10 turret mountings replaced the 6" casemate secondary weapons on
Queen Elizabeth
and
Valiant
.
Warspite
kept her 6" secondary guns, now reduced to just four per battery.
[28]
Second World War
[
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]
HMS
Warspite
off Salerno, 1943
By the
Second World War
, the class were showing their age.
Barham
and
Malaya
, the least-modernized of the class, were at a disadvantage compared to modern battleships. In spite of this,
Malaya
prevented an attack on a transatlantic convoy by the modern German
battlecruisers
Scharnhorst
and
Gneisenau
by her presence.
[29]
Queen Elizabeth
,
Warspite
, and
Valiant
, the more modernised of the class, fared better. With her modern fire control equipment,
Warspite
scored a hit on an Italian battleship during the
Battle of Calabria
at a range of more than 26,000 yards, one of the longest range naval artillery hits in history.
[iii]
Modern
torpedoes
outclassed their torpedo belt protection: in November 1941,
Barham
was torpedoed by a U-boat and sank in five minutes, with the loss of over 800 of her crew, when her magazines detonated.
Warspite
survived a direct hit and two near-misses by German glider bombs, while
Queen Elizabeth
and
Valiant
were repaired and returned to service after being badly damaged by limpet mines
[30]
placed by Italian frogmen during a
raid at Alexandria Harbour
in 1941.
HMS
Queen Elizabeth
[
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]
Queen Elizabeth
took part in the
Dardanelles Campaign
of 1915 bombarding forts, but missed Jutland in 1916. She became Admiral Beatty's flagship in 1917 after he assumed command of the Grand Fleet. In the Second World War she was
mined
by Italian frogmen and badly damaged, but did not ground in the shallow water of
Alexandria Harbour
in 1941.
[31]
[32]
She was subsequently repaired, and served in the Far East until 1945.
HMS
Warspite
[
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]
Warspite
suffered severe damage at Jutland, being hit by at least 15 heavy shells. She lost 14 men, with 32 wounded, firing a total of 259 shells. In the Second World War, she took part in many battles, including
Narvik
,
Cape Matapan
,
Crete
, and
Salerno
, where she was hit by a
glider bomb
. She was never fully repaired, and became a coastal bombardment ship, covering the
Normandy landings
, further operations in other parts of
France
, and the
Walcheren landings
. She holds the most battle honours for an individual ship in the Royal Navy's history, with 15.
HMS
Valiant
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]
Valiant
received no hits at Jutland but suffered one wounded and fired 288 shells. In the Second World War, she took part in the
attack on the French Fleet at Mers-el-Kebir
, and was mined and damaged at Alexandria in 1941. She was repaired, and served in the Far East until 1944. On 8 August 1944 whilst in the floating dock at
Trincomalee
,
Ceylon
, she was severely damaged when the dock collapsed with the result that repairs were stopped.
HMS
Barham
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]
Barham
was named after
Lord Barham
, First Lord of the Admiralty. The
Barham
received five hits at Jutland, suffering 26 dead and 46 wounded and fired 337 shells. In the Second World War, she fought at
Cape Matapan
. On 25 November 1941 she was struck by three torpedoes from
U-331
, commanded by
Oberleutnant zur See
Hans-Diedrich von Tiesenhausen
, and went down with 850 of her crew.
HMS
Malaya
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]
Malaya
was hit eight times at Jutland, suffering 63 dead and 68 wounded, and fired 215 shells. In the Second World War, she escorted
convoys
and was damaged by a torpedo from
U-106
in 1941. Subsequently, she escorted several convoys and supported various operations following the
Normandy invasion
until she was decommissioned in 1945.
HMS
Agincourt
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]
HMS
Agincourt
was to be the sixth member of the
Queen Elizabeth
class. She was authorized in 1913, and intended for completion in late 1916, but was cancelled after the outbreak of the First World War.
[8]
She is not to be confused with
HMS
Agincourt
that was ordered by Brazil, sold to the Ottoman Empire while under construction, and seized for use by the Royal Navy before the beginning of the first World War.
Other ships
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The Canadian
Naval Aid Bill
of 1913 intended to provide the funds for three modern battleships, which most likely would have been three more members of the
Queen Elizabeth
class, potentially named as
Acadia
,
Quebec
and
Ontario
,
[33]
in much the same way as
Malaya
had been funded. The bill met with stiff opposition in Parliament, and was not passed.
[34]
It is unclear if these ships would have served in the Royal Navy (as with outright gifts like
Malaya
or the battlecruiser
New Zealand
), or if they would have served in the
Royal Canadian Navy
(
HMAS
Australia
, an
Indefatigable
-class
battlecruiser, served with the
Royal Australian Navy
).
Notes
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- ^
"Cwt" is the abbreviation for
hundredweight
, 20 cwt referring to the weight of the gun.
- ^
A Ships Cover was an official volume prepared by the Constructor's Department and contained machinery contracts, rough design specifications, trials reports, and other documents relating to the design, construction, and repair work for a specific class of ships. Surviving Covers are held by the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.
- ^
The German warship
Scharnhorst
scored a hit on the British aircraft carrier
HMS
Glorious
at approximately the same range, a month earlier, during the evacuation of Norway.
Citations
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]
- ^
Jane, Fred T. (Parkes, Surgeon-Lt. R.N. Dr. Oscar and Prendergast, Maurice co-ed.) (1919).
Jane's Fighting Ships of World War I
. London: Jane's Publishing (1990 reprint, Military Press, New York; dist. by Crown Publishers). p. 36.
ISBN
0-517-03375-5
.
{{
cite book
}}
: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (
link
)
- ^
Friedman 2015, pp. 134?135 and footnote 5
- ^
Friedman 2015, pp. 134?135 and footnote 7
- ^
Burt 2012b, p. 277
- ^
Friedman 2014, p. 190 and footnote 5
- ^
a
b
Friedman 2015, p. 135
- ^
Friedman 2015, pp. 136?137
- ^
a
b
c
Raven & Roberts, p. 17
- ^
Greger, p. 101
- ^
Burt 2012b, pp. 281, 284?285
- ^
Raven & Roberts, p. 36
- ^
Burt 2012b, pp. 284, 286?287
- ^
a
b
c
d
e
Burt 2012b, p. 284
- ^
Friedman 2015, p. 138
- ^
"15-inch (38.1 cm) Mark I"
. Retrieved
22 July
2022
.
- ^
Friedman 2011, pp. 43?47
- ^
ADM 186/216
The Sight Manual, 1916
, pp. 20?22, 108
- ^
Friedman 2011, p. 84
- ^
Burt 2012b, p. 281
- ^
Raven & Roberts, pp. 20, 26
- ^
Campbell 1998, p. 132
- ^
Raven & Roberts, pp. 20?21, 30
- ^
Raven & Roberts, p. 30
- ^
Lambert, Nicholas A. "'Our Bloody Ships' or 'Our Bloody System': Jutland and the Loss of the Battle Cruisers, 1916."
The Journal of Military History
:
61
, January 1998, pp. 29?55
- ^
Breyer, p. 140.
- ^
Lambert 1999, pp. 300?301
- ^
Britain 15/42 (38.1 cm) Mark I
- ^
The Battleship Kongo
- ^
www.scharnhorst-class.dk
- ^
Winton, John (1998).
Cunningham
. John Murray Publishers, 1998.
ISBN
0-7195-5765-8
.
- ^
Burt 2012a, pp. 120?121: "Prior to the attack
Queen Elizabeth
had a draught of 33ft 5in forward and 32ft 7in aft; after the explosion: draught 41ft 10in forward, 33ft 10in aft."
Queen Elizabeth
was moored in approximately 48ft (8 fathoms) of water.
- ^
Brown, David. p. 225.
- ^
Schleihauf, William (2000).
"
"Necessary stepping stones" - The transfer of
Aurora
,
Patriot
and
Patrician
to the Royal Canadian Navy after the First World War"
.
Canadian Military History
.
9
(3): 21?28
. Retrieved
19 March
2014
.
- ^
Borden's Naval Aid Bill, 1912
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