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|Launched:||November 26, 1913
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|Fate:||Scrapped in 1947
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!colspan="2" style="color: white; height: 30px; background:navy;"|General Characteristics
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|Displacement:||27,500
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|Length:||196.9m
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|Beam:||27.6m
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|Draught:||10.08m
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|Speed:||23.5 knots
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|Complement:||925 (in 1936)
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|Armament:||8 15-inch gunsAnother HMS Warspite was a Queen Elizabeth class battleship, launched on November 26, 1913. Her main armament was eight 15-inch (380-mm) guns that were noted for extreme accuracy.
She took part in the Battle of Jutland, and was severely damaged. She was modernized after World War I.
In World War II she was in the Second Battle of Narvik (April 13, 1940), the Battle of Calabria, the Battle of Cape Matapan, at Crete in 1941, and hit by a German glider bomb at the Salerno landings in 1943. After repairs at Gibraltar, she then assisted in shore bombardment at the Normandy landings, then Brest, Le Havre, and Walcheren Island.
She was scrapped in 1947.