HMS Howe (1940)

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Career

Ordered:
Laid down:	1 June 1937
Launched:	9 April 1940
Commissioned:	29 August 1942
Decommissioned:
Fate:	Scrapped at Inverkeithing in 1958
Struck:
General characteristics
Displacement:	36,727 tons standard, 42,076 tons full
Length:	227 m
Beam:	31.4 m
Draught:	10.5 m
Propulsion:	110,000 hp to four shafts
Speed:	29.5 knots (54 km/h)
Range:	6,000 nm at 14 knots
Complement:	1422
Armament:	Ten 14 inch guns sixteen 5.25 inch guns thirty-two 2 lb anti-aircraft guns fourteen 40 mm Bofors AA guns sixty-five Oerlikon 20 mm guns
Aircraft:	2 (until 1943)
Motto:

HMS Howe was a King George V-class battleship of the Royal Navy, named after Admiral Richard Howe.

Built at the Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd. shipyard in Govan and launched in 1940, the ship was originally to be named Beatty after the commander of the British battlecruisers at Jutland, but she was renamed Howe in February 1940.

Howe was part of the Home Fleet in 1942 and early 1943, then joined Force H in the Mediterranean. She was refitted between October 1943 and June 1944 then joined the British Pacific Fleet. After the war she was used as a training ship.

Howe was broken up along with the other three ships of her class which survived the Second World War in 1957.

See HMS Howe for other ships of the same name.