The story of HMS King George V

 

“HMS King George V (pennant number 41) was the lead ship of the five British King George V-class battleships of the Royal Navy. Laid down in 1937 and commissioned in 1940, King George V operated during the Second World War in all three major naval theatres of war, the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Pacific.”

 

I think that the HMS King George V has the to biggest naval guns I had ever seen because the turret has four barrels with heavy and powerful ammunition (aka ammo / shells in naval term).

The HMS King George V was also made as the Royal Navy’s flagship and she remained as the flagship for the rest of the war. Then HMS King George V became a training ship November 1947.

 

 

                                    HMS King George V

           Armament: 10 × BL 14-inch (360 mm) Mk VII guns

         16 × QF 5.25-inch (133 mm) Mk I guns

         64 × 2 pounder "pom-pom" (40 mm)

           2 × Mark III quadruple turrets

           1 × Mark II twin turret

           Armor: Main belt: 15 inches (380 mm)

  lower belt: 6 inches (150 mm)

  deck armor: up to 5.6 inches (140 mm)

  main turret armor: 13 inches (330 mm)

Speed: 28 knots (51.9 km/h)

            Length: 745 ft (227 m)

Beam: 103 ft (31 m)

            Draft: 32.6 ft (9.9 m)

            Displacement: 42,200 tons

 

The HMS King George V has a lot of power in its main turrets and I can tell that those turrets can do a lot of damage to the enemy ship. It has served the Royal Navy for 4 years, King George has even participated in the destruction of the German battleship KMS Bismarck.

But as fate would have it, HMS King George was damaged and eventually scrapped for parts.

King George had accidentally sunk destroyer HMS Punjabi on collision. You might be wondering why did King George sink HMS Punjabi.

It’s because on the day that happened it was really foggy so they didn’t see each other until it was too late.

Eventually, the HMS King George V was scrapped and sold for parts. But they could have made the ship into a museum ship like the USS Missouri. So that others can enjoy it.

 

 

Italic / bold contents are credited to Wikipedia.