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Warspite Information
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| Role: | Battleship |
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| Country: | UK | |
| Commissioned: | 8 March 1915 | |
| Decommissioned: | 1 February 1945 |
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Warspite Information
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| Role: | Battleship |
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| Country: | UK | |
| Commissioned: | 8 March 1915 | |
| Decommissioned: | 1 February 1945 |
The HMS Warspite was a Queen Elizabeth class battleship that served in both world wars, taking part in the battle of Jutland in 1916 and the battle of Matapan in 1941.
In September 1943 she was badly damaged by an early guided missile. Crippled, Warspite was towed to Malta for temporary repairs before moving on to Gibraltar and Rosyth. The shipyard completed the repairs in time for Warspite to join the Eastern Task Force off Normandy. On June 6, 1944, Warspite provided gunfire support for Allied troops landing on Gold Beach.
| Specifications (1937): | |
| displacement: | 31,818t (standard); 37,030t (deep load) |
| length: | 196.2m |
| beam: | 31.7m |
| draught: | 9.9m |
| complement: | 1,262 (1920 as flagship) |
| Performance: | |
| installed power: | 54,000 kW |
| propulsion: | 6 x Admiralty 3-drum boilers |
| speed: | 23 knots (43km/h) |
| range: | 14,036km @12knots |
| Other: | |
| armament: | 8 x 15" main guns (in 4 twin-gun turrets) 8 x single 6" guns 8 x 4" AA guns (in 4 twingun turrets) 32 x 2pdr (40mm) 'pom-pom' AA cannons 16 x Vickers 0.5" AA machineguns (in quad mountings) |
| armour: | Deck: 79-127mm Conning Tower: 51-76mm |
| aircraft: | 2 x Fairey Swordfish torpedo bombers |