Episode 664
Queen Elizabeth-class battleship
Wed, 2019-Feb-27 00:07 UTC
Length - 1:52
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The random article for Wednesday, 27 February 2019 is Queen Elizabeth-class battleship.
The Queen Elizabeth-class battleships were a class of five super-dreadnoughts of the Royal Navy commissioned in 1915–16. The lead ship was named after Elizabeth I of England. These battleships were superior in firepower, protection and speed to their Royal Navy predecessors of the Iron Duke class as well as preceding German classes such as the König class. The corresponding Bayern-class ships were generally considered competitive, although the Queen Elizabeth class were 2 knots (3.7 km/h) faster and outnumbered the German class 5:2. The Queen Elizabeths are generally considered the first fast battleships in their day.
The Queen Elizabeths were the first battleships to be armed with 15-inch (381 mm) guns, and were described in the 1919 edition of Jane's Fighting Ships as "the most successful type of capital ship yet designed." They saw much service in both world wars. HMS Barham was lost to U-boat attack in 1941, but the others survived the wars and were scrapped in the late 1940s.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 00:07 UTC on Wednesday, 27 February 2019.
For the full current version of the article, see Queen Elizabeth-class battleship on Wikipedia.
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