HMS Ajax (1912)
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| Career |  |
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| Ordered: | 1910 |
| Laid down: | 27 February 1911 |
| Launched: | 21 March 1912 |
| Commissioned: | 31 October 1913 |
| Decommissioned: | 1924 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap, November 9, 1926 |
| Struck: | |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 23,400 tons |
| Length: | 598 feet (182.3 m) |
| Beam: | 89 feet (27.1 m) |
| Draught: | 27.5 feet (8.4 m) |
| Propulsion: | Turbine (Parsons) producing 31,000 shp, driving 4 screws |
| Speed: | 21.5 knots |
| Range: | |
| Complement: | 900 men |
| Armament: | 10 13.5 inch (343 mm) guns 12 6 inch (152 mm) guns |
HMS Ajax was a King George V-class battleship (one of four ships of the class), built at Scotts' shipyard at Greenock on the River Clyde. She was completed in 1913 and saw action at the Battle of Jutland in 1916 and in the Mediterranean and Black Seas in 1919, before being decommissioned in 1924.
- Armour: Main belt 12 in. (305 mm), turrets 11 in. (279 mm)
- Armament: 10 13.5 in. (343 mm) guns (5 × 2 gun turrets), 16 4 in. (102 mm) guns (16 × 1 gun turrets); 3 21 in. (533 mm) torpedo tubes
[edit] See also
- HMS Ajax for other ships by this name
- List of battleships
- List of Royal Navy ships, A
- List of battleships of the Royal Navy
- List of ship launches in 1912
- List of ship commissionings in 1913
[edit] External link
| King George V-class battleship (1911) |
| King George V | Centurion | Audacious | Ajax |
| Preceded by: Orion class - Followed by: Iron Duke class |
List of battleships of the Royal Navy |
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