| Laid down N/A |
Launched N/A |
Completed N/A |
Commissioned N/A |
| Fate Project abandoned |
Builders Armstrong |
Complement unknown |
|
| Displacement 30,000 tons standard |
Dimensions 690' x 98' |
Draught 29' full load |
|
| Main guns 6 x 15" (3 x 2) |
Secondary guns 16 x 6" (8 x 2) |
Light guns 4 x 3" AA (4 x 1) |
Torpedo tubes 2 x 21" submerged |
| Armour Belt: 6" max Upper Belt: 4" Barbettes: 7"' Turrets: 13" face Deck: 2 - 2.5" C.T.: 10" |
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| Machinery Yarrow small tube boilers |
Turbines 4 x Brown-Curtis geared |
Power output unknown |
Shafts 4 |
| Speed 28.5 kts design |
Range 7000 miles |
Fuel 3550 tons oil |
|
Design No. 814 does not appear to have been
even sketched out, or did not survive.
Design No. 815 was the last derivative of
this project, and was another four-turret
design. Externally it was very similar to
Design No. 811, but like Design No. 812 it
featured eight 14-inch guns in four twin
turrets. My guess is that Design Nos. 812
and 815 would have used the 14/45 Mark I
designed for the Chilean battleships Almirante
Cochrane and Almirante Latorre. Not only
was this gun built at Armstrong's Elswick
Ordinance Works, and in current production,
but the ten guns for Admirante Cochrane,
plus four spares and two more for a cancelled
Japanese order, had already been started
but would not be needed due to the suspension
of the battleship. The existing gun order
would provide for two units of Design No.
812 or 815, thus eliminating one of the major
bottlenecks in capital ship construction.
In the end, 7 of the 14/45 guns were cancelled,
two went to France as railway mounted weapons,
and the other 7 were completed but never
used for anything.
Design No. 815 was clearly the poorest design
of the bunch. It had the worst features of
the other three: the reduced main battery
of Design No. 812, the thinned armor of Design
No. 813, and had the high displacement of
Design No. 811. Its only advantage was that
its speed was 1-1.5 knots faster than the
other three. But that speed came at the cost
of 6,700 tons over the other 14-inch design
(812), and the loss of 4 secondary guns.
| Laid down N/A |
Launched N/A |
Completed N/A |
Commissioned N/A |
| Fate Project abandoned |
Builders Armstrong |
Complement unknown |
|
| Displacement 33,600 tons standard |
Dimensions 710' x 100' |
Draught 29' full load |
|
| Main guns 8 x 14" (3 x 2) |
Secondary guns 16 x 6" (8 x 2) |
Light guns 4 x 3" AA (4 x 1) |
Torpedo tubes 2 x 21" submerged |
| Armour Belt: 6" max Upper Belt: 4" Barbettes: 7"' Turrets: 13" face Deck: 2 - 2.5" C.T.: 10" |
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| Machinery Yarrow small tube boilers |
Turbines 4 x Brown-Curtis geared |
Power output unknown |
Shafts 4 |
| Speed 29.5 kts design |
Range @ 7000 miles |
Fuel @ 3550 tons oil |
|
In the end, the Admiralty decided to pursue
a different path. Battlecruiser designs took
a back seat to an Admiralty project to design
a new battleship, an improved Queen Elizabeth
with improved underwater protection and modifications
to reflect the lessons learned in the war.
The first of these designs was submitted
at the same time as these Armstrong battlecruiser
designs, and four more would follow in the
next two months. Upon reviewing these battleship
designs Admiral Jellicoe stated that he was
comparatively strong in battleships, but
needed a good 15-inch battlecruiser design
to counter the German 15-inch gunned, 30-knot
ships then building. As none of the rejected
Armstrong BC designs was fast enough, a fresh
battlecruiser design was drawn up, which
would eventually become HMS Hood.
