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HMS ''Centurion'' was the second battleship of the ''King George V'' class, built at HM Dockyard, Devonport. The battleships of the ''King George V'' class had been designed as dreadnought battleships. The ''King George V''-class battleships were a series of four Royal Navy super-dreadnought battleships built just prior to and serving in the First World War. The ''King George V'' class immediately followed the ''Orion'' class upon which they were based. Her sister ships were: * HMS ''King George V'' * HMS ''Audacious'' * HMS ''Ajax'' ==The Great War== ''Centurion'' was attached upon completion to the 2nd Battle Squadron, led by sister ship . She was present at the Battle of Jutland as part of the main body of Grand Fleet under the command of Captain Michael Culme-Seymour. She was third in line in the First Division of the Fleet behind HMS ''King George V'' and .〔Jellicoe 1919, pp. 320, 466.〕 ''Centurion'' was only lightly engaged at Jutland, firing four salvos of her main armament at the German Battlecruiser ''Lützow'' before HMS ''Orion'' blocked ''Centurion''s line of fire to ''Lützow''.〔Campbell 1998, p. 209.〕 After duty in the North Sea (where she was commanded for a time by Roger Keyes) she was sent to the Eastern Mediterranean in 1918 with to oversee the capitulation of the Ottoman Empire. In 1919, ''Centurion'' was dispatched to the Black Sea in the Allied Intervention in the Russian Civil War. 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 Centurion (1911)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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