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HMS Orion (1910)
HMS ''Orion'' was a dreadnought battleship of the Royal Navy. Launched in 1910, she was the lead ship of her class; she was the first so-called "super-dreadnought", being the first British dreadnought to mount guns of calibre greater than twelve inches, and the first British dreadnought to have all of its main armament mounted on the centreline.
==Origin==
''Orion'' and her sisters were laid down at a time when the British Liberal Government was pledged by their election manifesto to reduce the scale of spending on armaments. Information from Naval Attachés in Germany produced information suggesting that Germany was building dreadnoughts at a rate which, if not countered, would lead to the German battle fleet approaching the size of the British.〔''Dreadnought'' Robert K. Massie pp. 611-616 ISBN 1-84413-528-4〕 At that time there was in existence a policy known as the "two power standard", which called for the British battle-fleet to be at all times at least ten percent stronger than the two next strongest naval powers.〔Massie p. 611〕 The German plans as reported to the Government were seen as clearly breaching this policy. The First Lord of the Admiralty, Reginald McKenna, was therefore able to force his plans for the ''Orion''-class dreadnoughts through Parliament; with the support of the Prime Minister, H.H. Asquith, and over the objections of David Lloyd-George and Winston Churchill.
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