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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 as part of the British Home and Pacific Fleets. Along with HMS Rodney, King George V severely damaged the German battleship Bismarck which led to the German vessel sinking in May 1941. On 1 May 1942 destroyer HMS Punjabi sank after a collision with King George V in foggy conditions. King George V took part in Operation Husky (the allied landings in Sicily) and bombarded the island of Levanzo and the port of Trapani. She also escorted part of the surrendered Italian Fleet, which included the battleships Andrea Doria and Caio Duilio, to Malta. In 1945 King George V took par

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  • HMS King George V (41)
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  • 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 as part of the British Home and Pacific Fleets. Along with HMS Rodney, King George V severely damaged the German battleship Bismarck which led to the German vessel sinking in May 1941. On 1 May 1942 destroyer HMS Punjabi sank after a collision with King George V in foggy conditions. King George V took part in Operation Husky (the allied landings in Sicily) and bombarded the island of Levanzo and the port of Trapani. She also escorted part of the surrendered Italian Fleet, which included the battleships Andrea Doria and Caio Duilio, to Malta. In 1945 King George V took par
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Draught
  • 32.0
Length
  • 745.0
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Range
  • 5400(xsd:integer)
Speed
  • 28(xsd:integer)
Armor
  • 374(xsd:integer)
Displacement
  • 38031(xsd:integer)
Affiliation
  • Great Britain
Name
  • HMS King George V
Type
  • Battleship
Class
Beam
  • 103.0
Ship caption
  • HMS King George V enters Apra Harbour, Guam with sailors on deck in 1945
Ship image
  • 300(xsd:integer)
module
  • --01-01
Builder
  • Walker's Naval Yard, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
Aircraft
  • 4(xsd:integer)
commission
  • 1940-12-11(xsd:date)
Crew
  • 1631(xsd:integer)
Year
  • 1937(xsd:integer)
machinery
  • *8 Admiralty three-drum small-tube boilers with superheaters *4 Parsons single-reduction geared turbines *4 three-bladed propellers
abstract
  • 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 as part of the British Home and Pacific Fleets. Along with HMS Rodney, King George V severely damaged the German battleship Bismarck which led to the German vessel sinking in May 1941. On 1 May 1942 destroyer HMS Punjabi sank after a collision with King George V in foggy conditions. King George V took part in Operation Husky (the allied landings in Sicily) and bombarded the island of Levanzo and the port of Trapani. She also escorted part of the surrendered Italian Fleet, which included the battleships Andrea Doria and Caio Duilio, to Malta. In 1945 King George V took part in operations against the Japanese in the Pacific. Following the war, King George V spent three years as the flagship of the British Home Fleet, was placed in reserve in 1949, and scrapped eight years later.
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