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Country: United Kingdom.
Class, [Type]: George V, [BB].

Builder: Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Greenock, U.K.
Launch date: 21 March 1912.
Commission date: 31 October 1913.
Decommission date: 1924.

Displacement ( tons ): 23400 full load.
Dimensions ( metres ): 182 x 27 x 8,4.
Main machinery: 4 x Parsons steam turbines ( 31000 hp ), 18 x Babcock and Wilcox water-tube boilers.
Range ( miles ): 14000 at 10 knots.
Speed ( knots ): 21,5.
Complement: 900.

Guns: 5 x 2 340mm Mk5, 16 x 1 102mm Mk7.
Torpedoes: 3 x 1 533mm torpedo tubes ( 21 torpedoes ).

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