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     Benbow      

Country: United Kingdom.
Class, [Type]: Iron Duke, [BB].

Builder: W. Beardmore and Company, Glasgow, U.K.
Launch date: 12 November 1913.
Commission date: 7 October 1914.
Decommission date: 1929.

Displacement ( tons ): 29500 full load.
Dimensions ( metres ): 190 x 27 x 10.
Main machinery: 4 x Parsons steam turbines ( 29000 hp ), 18 x Babcock and Wilcox water-tube boilers.
Range ( miles ): 14000 at 10 knots.
Speed ( knots ): 21,2.
Complement: 925.

Guns: 5 x 2 340mm Mk5, 12 x 1 152mm Mk7, 2 x 1 76mm AA, 2 x 1 47mm, 5 x 1 7,7mm machine guns.
Torpedoes: 4 x 1 533mm submerged torpedo tubes.

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