Jump to navigation Jump to search. Post Jutland and over-shadowed by the newer Super-Dreadnoughts with their better armour and superior 13.5 inch guns Collingwood conduct patrols in the North Sea she was assigned as a gunnery training ship in October 1919, she was sold for scrapping in December 1922 under the terms of the Washington Naval treaties, scrapping commenced in 1923. The first Collingwood appeared in 1841 and was an 80-gun second-rate battleship, she was converted to screw driven steam propulsion in 1861, and sold in 1867. The St Vincent-class battleships were a group of three dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. With the advent of heavier guns and longer ranges the old idea of protecting a ship by having a thick armoured belt was no longer sufficient. By April 1917, The Grand Fleet conducted sweeps into the central North Sea on 17–19 May and 29–31 May without encountering any German vessels. BS in June of 1912 and then led the usual un-exciting life of fleet manoeuvres and training until the 31st may 1916 when she took part in the battle of Jutland The St Vincent class were a follow on of the preceding Bellerophon class and because they were very different from the following single ship class, Neptune, they can be considered the final development ,as a class, of the Dreadnought.

All were designed to discharge their torpedoes underwater; a total of nine torpedoes were carried.The main waterline belt was of armour ten inches thick and ran from a point level with the forward point of "A" barbette to a point level with the after point of "Y" barbette. Additionally splinters tore apart cabling and caused a minor amount of damage to two 3.5 inch guns. The St Vincent class were a follow on of the preceding Bellerophon class and because they were very different from the following single ship class, Neptune, they can be considered the final development ,as a class, of the Dreadnought.

Jutland - Geoffrey Bennett, The 12 “ HE shell from Collingwood hit the Derfflinger on the side of the super-structure and burst inside the sick-bay blowing a hole 18’ by 7’06” wide in the superstructure side, and below the shell burst a hole was also blown in the battery roof deck 5’ by 2’03” and a further 30 feet of the deck was bulged upwards by 6 feet. They were significantly more powerful than the South Carolina-class. As these two turrets were positioned symmetrically on the ship there was no possibility of firing across the deck on the opposite beam, and in practice firing too close to the long axis of the ship caused unacceptable damage to the superstructure.

As with the preceding classes only eight of the ten guns could be fired on either beam with four or six ahead and six or eight astern, the actual numbers depending on the relative bearing of the target. St. Vincent class battleship. With the longer ranges the guns that fired the shells were using higher elevations resulting in a higher altitude of flight and thus a steeper angle of descent, or plunging fire, of the shells, to compound this better range finders and the advent of director control of the main battery was further increasing the ranges at which future battles would be fought.

Vanguard was destroyed in an ammunition explosion, probably due to bagged cordite. Shell weights were the same for the earlier 12 “ guns at 850 to 859 lbs the range was around 21,000 yards at 15 degrees elevation against 19,000 yards for the C45 guns of the earlier classes. The guns of this turret had an arc of fire of some 110 degrees on either beam, with no ability to fire either astern or ahead. the third ship was the subject of this article. 0 references .

Wikipedia (8 entries) edit. 0 references. The new gun being 5 calibres or 5 feet longer needed a re-working of the basic design in the area of X and Y turrets to allow room for the longer weapon, there were slight modifications to the armour with an increase in thickness of the armoured deck but the deck below this was reduced in thickness so the overall effect was a negligible increase in protection. This produced a general scaling-up of 650 tons over the preceding class. Maximum main deck armour thickness was slightly increased, but in compensation middle deck thickness had to be reduced. Three below water tubes were fitted for 18 inch Whitehead torpedoes with one firing ahead and one on either beam. Below the battery deck the upper deck (5/16”) was bowed down and a 14” hole made by a shell fragment as well as many splinter holes.