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Iron Duke Class Battleship colspan="2" align="center"|
HMS Iron Duke | | lign="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|General Characteristics | align ="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|RN Ensign | | isplacement: | 25,000 tons (normal), 29,500 deep load | | ength: | 622 feet 9 inches | | eam: | 90 feet | | raught: | 32 feet 9 inches | | ropulsion: | 4 shaft Parsons Turbines, driving four propellers, 18 Babcock & Wilcox or Yarrow boilers delivering 29,000 hp | | peed: | 21.25 knots | | ange: | 14,000 nm at 10 knots | | omplement: | 925 | | rmament: | Main battery: ten 13.5"/45 guns in five twin turrets
Secondary battery: twelve 6"/45 guns in single casemate mountings; two 3"/20 anti-aircraft guns
Four 21" submerged beam torpedo tubes | The Iron Duke class battleships of the Royal Navy were four battleships, Benbow, Emperor of India, Iron Duke, and Marlborough. Launched from October 1912 to November 1913, this fourth class of Royal Navy super-dreadnoughts had ten 13.5" guns in five centerline twin turrets. They were essentially King George V-class battleships with improved armour. Benbow, Iron Duke and Marlborough participated in the battle of Jutland. Emperor of India was sunk as a target ship in 1931, Benbow was sold for scrap in 1929, and Marlborough was sold for scrap in 1932. Iron Duke survived the longest after being converted to a training ship as the result of the Washington Naval Treaty, and was sold for scrap in 1946.
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