HMS DUKE OF YORK

UK

Namesake: George VI (previously the Duke of York)[1]
Ordered: 16 November 1936
Builder: John Brown and Company, Clydebank, Scotland
Yard number: 554[2]
Laid down: 5 May 1937
Launched: 28 February 1940
Commissioned: 4 November 1941
Decommissioned: November 1951
Struck: 18 May 1957
Identification: Pennant number: 17
Fate: Scrapped in 1957 at Shipbreaking Industries, Ltd., Faslane, Scotland
General characteristics
Class & type: King George V-class battleship
Displacement: 42,076 long tons (42,751 t) deep load
Length: 745 ft 1 in (227.1 m) (overall)
740 ft 1 in (225.6 m) (waterline)
Beam: 103 ft 2 in (31.4 m)
Draught: 34 ft 4 in (10.5 m)
Installed power: 110,000 shp (82,000 kW)
Propulsion: 8 Admiralty 3-drum small-tube boilers
4 sets Parsons geared turbines
Speed: 28.3 knots (52.4 km/h; 32.6 mph)
Range: 15,600 nmi (28,900 km; 18,000 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement: 1,556 (1945)
Sensors and
processing systems: Type 281 air warning radar
Type 273 surface warning radar
Type 284 radar.
4 x Type 285 gunnery radar.
6 x Type 282 radar for "pom-pom" direction.
Radars added between 1944–1945: Type 281B radar added,
2 x Types 277, 282 and 293 radars added.[3]
Armament: 10 × BL 14 in (360 mm) Mark VII guns
16 × QF 5.25 in (133 mm) Mk. I DP guns
48 × QF 2 pdr 40 mm (1.6 in) Mk.VIII AA guns
6 × 20 mm (0.8 in) Oerlikon AA guns
Armour: Main Belt: 14.7 inches (370 mm)
Lower belt: 5.4 inches (140 mm)
Deck: 5–6 inches (127–152 mm)
Main turrets: 12.75 inches (324 mm)
Barbettes: 12.75 inches (324 mm)
Bulkheads: 10–12 inches (254–305 mm)
Conning tower: 3–4 inches (76–102 mm).[4]
Aircraft carried: 4 × Supermarine Walrus seaplanes
Aviation facilities: 1 × double-ended catapult (removed early 1944)

Details: Wikipedia

Photo Credits: The Alexander Turnbull Library NZ