HMS King George V (1911)
HMS King George V was the lead ship of her class of four dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy in the early 1910s. She spent the bulk of her career assigned to the Home and Grand Fleets, often serving as a flagship. Aside from participating in the failed attempt to intercept the German ships that had bombarded Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby in late 1914, the Battle of Jutland in May 1916 and the inconclusive action of 19 August, her service during the First World War generally consisted of routine patrols and training in the North Sea. During the Battle of Jutland, she fired two salvos totalling nine shells at the German battlecruiser SMS Derfflinger.
After the war, King George V became flagship of the Home Fleet and then of the Reserve Fleet before she was assigned to the Mediterranean Fleet in late 1920. The ship evacuated refugees during the Great fire of Smyrna in September 1922 before returning home at the beginning of 1923. King George V was reduced to reserve and used as a training ship until late 1926 and was sold for scrap later in the year in accordance with the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty.
| Class and type | King George V-class dreadnought battleship |
| Displacement | 25,420 long tons (25,830 t) (normal) |
| Length | 594 ft 4 in (181.2 m) (o/a) |
| Beam | 89 ft 1 in (27.2 m) |
| Draught | 28 ft 8 in (8.7 m) |
| Installed power | 27,000 shp (20,000 kW) 18 × Babcock & Wilcox boilers |
| Propulsion | 4 × shafts; 2 × steam turbine sets |
| Speed | 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph) |
| Range | 5,910 nmi (10,950 km; 6,800 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement | 869–1,114 |
| Armament | 5 × twin 13.5-inch (343 mm) guns 16 × single 4-inch (102 mm) guns 3 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes |
| Armour | Belt: 12 in (305 mm) Deck: 1–4 in (25–102 mm) Turrets: 11 in (280 mm) |
