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HMS ''Benbow'' was an of the Royal Navy, the third ship of the class and the third ship to be named in honour of Admiral John Benbow. She was ordered under the 1911 Naval Estimates and built in the yards of William Beardmore and Company, of Glasgow. She was laid down on 30 May 1912 and launched on 12 November 1913. She was commissioned in October 1914 after the outbreak of the First World War . She served during the First World War as part of the Grand Fleet, and led one of the squadrons of the Fleet in the major naval engagement of that war, the Battle of Jutland in 1916. She spent the rest of the war in home waters, but was dispatched to the Mediterranean after the end of the war, and then into the Black Sea. Here she carried out a number of shore bombardments in support of the White Russians in the Russian Civil War, until their collapse in 1920. She remained with the Mediterranean Fleet until 1926, when she returned to the Atlantic Fleet. She was decommissioned in 1929, disarmed under the terms of the London Naval Treaty in 1930 and was sold for scrapping in 1931. ==Design== (詳細はlong overall and had a beam of and an average draught of . She displaced as designed and up to at combat loading. Her propulsion system consisted of four Parsons steam turbines, with steam provided by eighteen Babcock & Wilcox boilers. ''Benbow'' had a fuel storage capacity of of coal and of oil. The engines were rated at and produced a top speed of . Her cruising radius was at a more economical . ''Benbow'' had a crew of 995 officers and enlisted men, though during wartime this grew to up to 1,022.〔Gardiner & Gray, p. 31〕 ''Benbow'' was armed with a main battery of ten BL 13.5-inch Mk V naval guns mounted in five twin gun turrets. They were arranged in two superfiring pairs, one forward and one aft; the fifth turret was located amidships, between the funnels and the rear superstructure. Close-range defence against torpedo boats was provided by a secondary battery of twelve BL 6-inch Mk VII guns. The ship was also fitted with a pair of QF 3-inch 20 cwt anti-aircraft guns and four 3-pounder guns.〔"Cwt" is the abbreviation for hundredweight, 20 cwt referring to the weight of the gun.〕 As was typical for capital ships of the period, she was equipped with four torpedo tubes submerged on the broadside. ''Benbow'' was protected by a main armoured belt that was thick over the ship's vitals. Her deck was thick. The main battery turret faces were thick, and the turrets were supported by thick barbettes.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「HMS Benbow (1913)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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