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Hms Orion (1910) | align="center" colspan="2"|HMS Orion | | lign ="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|Career | align ="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|RN Ensign | | rdered: | 1909 | | aid down: | 29 November 1909 | | aunched: | 20 August 1910 | | ommissioned: | January 1912 | | ecommissioned: | 1922 | | ate: | Sold for scrap | | truck: | 1922 | | olspan="2" align="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|General Characteristics | | isplacement: | 22,000 tons standard/25,870 tons max | | ength: | 581 feet (177 m) | | eam: | 88 feet (27 m) | | raught: | 24 feet (7 m) | | ropulsion: | Steam turbines, 18 boilers, 4 shafts, 27,000 hp | | peed: | 21 knots | | ange: | | | omplement: | 750–1100 | | rmament: | Ten 13.5-inch guns, sixteen 4-inch guns, three 21-inch submered torpedo tubes | HMS ''Orion'' was a battleship of the Royal Navy, launched in 1910, the lead ship of her class and the first "super-dreadnought". In World War I she served in the 2nd Battle Squadron of the Grand Fleet based at Scapa Flow and fought at the battle of Jutland, 31 May 1916, suffering no damage. As a result of the Washington Naval Treaty she was decomissioned and sold for scrap in 1922. Orion (1910)
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