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The first HMS ''King George V'' was a ''King George V'' class of 1911 dreadnought, with a displacement of 23,400 tonnes and an armament of ten 13.5 inch guns in twin gun turrets and a secondary armament of sixteen 4 inch guns and had a crew complement of 870, though this increased substantially by 1916 to 1,110, and had a length of 597 feet. She took part in the Battle of Jutland, being the lead ship of the 1st Division of the 2nd Battle Squadron. Her sister-ships were , and . HMS ''Audacious'' was sunk by a mine off the northern coast of Ireland; the rest survived World War I and were all decommissioned by 1924. ''King George V'' herself was decommissioned in 1919, used as a training ship between 1923–26 and scrapped in 1926. ==Design and construction== The 1910 construction programme for the Royal Navy included four super-dreadnought battleships as a follow-on to the four ''Orion''-class battleships that had been ordered the previous year. The new ships were originally to be of the same design as the ''Orion''s, but trials of the battlecruiser HMS ''Lion'' had shown that the location of the foremast between the two funnels, as standard in British battleships and battlecruisers, resulted in the fire-control platforms on the foremast being affected by smoke, and the foremast was moved before the fore funnel. The ''King George V'' class were ended up slightly larger than the ''Orion''s, allowing a little more deck armour to be carried.〔 While the layout of the main armament of ten 13.5 in (343 mm) guns in five twin turrets on the ship's centreline, (with two turrets forward, two aft and one amidships) the guns were modified to fire a heavier shell ( rather than ) giving improved ballistics. Secondary gun armament consisted of the same sixteen 4 in (102 mm) guns in casemates as carried in the ''Orion''s, although their arrangement was changed, with more guns concentrated forward. Four 3-pounder (47 mm) guns and five machine guns completed the ship's gun armament, while the torpedo armament, with two submerged tubes on the broadside and one at the ship's stern, was the same as the ''Orion''s.〔〔Pears 1979, p. 99.〕 ''King George V'' was laid down at Portsmouth Royal Dockyard on 16 January 1911, and launched on 9 October 1911.〔 The ship reached a maximum speed of on trials,〔Moore 1990, p. 38.〕 before completing in November 1912.〔 ''King George V'', like ''Centurion'' was completed with a simple pole foremast, but when a director was fitted to the foremast to improve aiming of the ship's main armament, ''King George V''s foremast was fitted with stiffening flanges to help take the extra weight of the director, eventually being fitted with a tripod mast in 1918.〔 Two 4-inch anti-aircraft guns were mounted on the ship's quarterdeck in 1915, while four 4-in guns mounted in casemates low down in the bow of the ship, which were unusable in a heavy sea, were removed.〔 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 King George V (1911)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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