As the 15 inch naval gun/shell, met the ideals of: maximised destructive fire-power, with low barrel wear/tear, and considerable engagement range :) Which is perhaps 'just slightly ironic', because it was feared, that the 15 inch calibre shell, would be inferior (in terms of performance and robustness) to the 'well established and proven' 13.5 inch calibre shell - which was fitted to 'the preceding generation' of British battleships (the Iron Duke class). For the Queen Elizabeth class, were armed with eight 15 inch naval guns, which are believed to have been, the best well balanced guns, within the Royal Navy. And yet, do these ideas of balance, also apply to the choice of naval gun calibre.
Which for me 'has always felt like' that it best encapsulated 'the ideas of balance'. The arrangement of her primary armament naval guns - 2 twin turrets forward, and 2 twin turrets astern.When it comes to the Queen Elizabeth's profile/battleship class, there are four features that I particularly liked: In terms of Naval Architecture, there is 'an important milestone' which is usually accredited to them: they are seen as, the World's first true, fast battleships :) For one simple reason - their designs were close to 'the ideals' of matched: armour, guns and speed! By the time of World War Two (1939 to 1945), they were regarded as the Royal Navy's primary battleships - with HMS Queen Elizabeth herself 'being the most modified' within her long service life (of 33 years). Being completed in 1915/1916 they were soon 'put to use' within World War One - with HMS Queen Elizabeth 'shelling land forts' in the Dardanelles, and her sisters 'taking heavy fire' at the Battle of Jutland. HMS Queen Elizabeth and her four sister battleships (Barham, Malaya, Valiant and Warspite) had all been laid down (for construction) in 1912/1913. Of all the Royal Navy's Battleships, there are none more 'highly regarded, heavily worked and wartime modified' than those of the Queen Elizabeth class - and of those, is there 'none more renowned' than HMS Queen Elizabeth herself: HMS Queen Elizabeth - with eight 15 inch naval guns and twenty 4.5 inch dual purpose guns. As battleships were a nation's Capital Ships, and the 'bigger the battleship' - the more powerful the nation. The battleships of World War Two grew to be behemoths (displacing up to 71 thousand tons). The battleships of World War One were relatively small (displacing around 20 thousand tons). Within World War One, dreadnoughts were referred to as 'a ship of the line of battle' which eventually gave rise to the term Battleship. HMS Dreadnought caused such a dramatic change, that this period of time become known as the Dreadnought Era, and battleships were then divided into pre-dreadnoughts and dreadnoughts. That all changed in 1906, when HMS Dreadnought was launched - as being equipped with only two calibres of naval gun (just long range and short range) she revolutionised Naval Conflict. Such pre-dreadnoughts were equipped with too many naval guns, of too many different calibres - making them too hard to use. At the start of the twentieth century, battleships were known as pre-dreadnoughts. World War Two Battleships - World War One Dreadnoughtsīattleships were the largest warships that were ever made.
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