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Hms King George V (1911) | colspan="2"| | | tyle="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy;"|Career | style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy;"|RN Ensign | | rdered: | 1910 | | aid down: | January 1911 | | aunched: | October 9, 1911 | | ommissioned: | | | ecommissioned: | 1924 | | ate: | Scrapped in December 1926 | | truck: | | | olspan="2" align="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy;"|General Characteristics | | isplacement: | 23,400 tons | | ength: | 598 feet | | eam: | 89 feet | | raught: | 28 feet | | ropulsion: | Turbine (Parsons) producing 31,000 shp, driving 4 screws | | peed: | 21 knots | | ange: | | | omplement: | 900 men | | rmament: | 10 13.5-inch guns
12 6-inch guns
Three 21-inch torpedo tubes | | ircraft: | | | otto: | The first HMS ''King George V was a King George V-class dreadnought, with a displacement of 23,400 tonnes and an armament of 10 x 13.5-inch guns in twin turrets and 16 x 4-inch guns and had a crew complement of 870, though this increased substantially by 1916 to 1,110, and had a length of 597 feet. She took part in the Battle of Jutland, being the lead ship of the 1st Division of the 2nd Battle Squadron. Her sister-ships were HMS Centurion, HMS Audacious and HMS Ajax. HMS Audacious was sunk by a mine off Northern Ireland, the rest survived World War I, until decommissioned by 1924. King George V'' herself was decommissioned in 1919, used as a training ship between 1923-26 and scrapped in 1926 . King George V
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