The G3 class was a class of battlecruisers planned by the Royal Navy after the end of World War I in response to naval expansion programmes by the United...
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planned to build the G3 class, which had the same armament and armour as battleships of the time and were rated as battlecruisers only by comparison to...
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(military staff) G3 battlecruiser, a post First World War design for the Royal Navy that was curtailed by the Washington Naval Treaty G3 (NATO), the Assistant...
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HMS Hood (redirect from Battlecruiser Hood)
(pennant number 51) was a battlecruiser of the Royal Navy (RN). Hood was the first of the planned four Admiral-class battlecruisers to be built during the...
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The battlecruiser (also written as battle cruiser or battle-cruiser) was a type of capital ship of the first half of the 20th century. These were similar...
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The Admiral-class battlecruisers were to have been a class of four British Royal Navy battlecruisers built near the end of World War I. Their design began...
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remained roughly the same. The design was superseded by the I3 and G3 battlecruiser designs, as both mounted a heavier main armament, and further improved...
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The Lexington-class battlecruisers were officially the only class of battlecruiser to ever be ordered by the United States Navy. While these six vessels...
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of the Republic of Korea Army K2 battlecruiser, a preliminary design in the studies leading up to the G3 battlecruiser K2 Black Panther, a South Korean...
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Japan, and the United States all considered new battlecruiser construction, including the British G3 class, the Japanese Amagi class, and a revised version...
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The Amagi class (天城型, Amagi-gata) was a series of four battlecruisers planned for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) as part of the Eight-eight fleet in...
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learned from that conflict. They were similar in design to the G3-class battlecruiser, but had larger guns and thicker armour. They were never ordered...
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essentially a smaller, 23-knot (43 km/h; 26 mph) battleship version of the G3 battlecruiser which had been cancelled for exceeding the constraints of the 1922...
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and G3 battlecruiser but further reduced to come under the weight limit. Nine BL 16 inch Mk I guns – the same as were to have been used on the G3 battlecruisers...
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absolute minimum, a further eight battleships. These would have been the G3 battlecruisers, with 16-inch guns and high speed, and the N3-class battleships, with...
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essentially a smaller, 23-knot (43 km/h; 26 mph) battleship version of the G3 battlecruiser which had been cancelled for exceeding the constraints of the 1922...
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Nelson-class battleship (redirect from Nelson class battlecruiser)
massive, heavily armoured battlecruisers and battleships, far larger and stronger than all previous vessels. The G3-class battlecruisers would carry 16-inch...
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HMS Incomparable (category Battlecruisers of the Royal Navy)
on the G3 design, was a battlecruiser only in relation to the paired N3 battleship. The planned N3-class battleships and G3-class battlecruisers were both...
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The Nelson-class battleship, incorporating many concepts from the G3 battlecruiser, was the first design to include a dual-purpose secondary battery,...
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scrapped. For battlecruisers, this encompassed the United States' Lexington class, Japan's Amagi class, and Great Britain's G3 battlecruisers. For the U...
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battleships were not tested. Pre-dreadnought protection N3-class battleship G3 battlecruiser Bonner, Kit; Carolyn Bonner (2008). USS Missouri at War. Zenith Imprint...
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cordite-proving tests for the BL 16-inch Mk I gun, intended for the cancelled G3 battlecruisers, and used in the Nelson-class battleships. It remained in use until...
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(59 km/h; 37 mph), 16-inch (406 mm) gunned G3 class both of some 48,000 tons. Officially described as battlecruisers, the G3s were far better protected than...
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Kingdom was in the final stages of ordering eight capital ships (the G3 battlecruisers, with the first's keel laying in 1921, and N3-class battleships, to...
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wire-wound built-up guns had originally been planned for the cancelled G3-class battlecruiser design upon which the Nelson class drew. Sir W. G. Armstrong Whitworth...
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began campaigning for a ship building program, proposing building the G3 battlecruisers. Such proposals were unpopular and viewed as unnecessarily expensive...
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originally designed as secondary armament for the proposed G3 class battlecruisers. When the G3 class were cancelled after the Washington Naval Treaty the...
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southern half of the North Sea to support Vice Admiral David Beatty's 1st Battlecruiser Squadron. The fleet was back in port at Scapa Flow by 27 November. Marlborough...
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Fleet. These frequently consisted of sailing as distant support to the battlecruisers of I Scouting Group as they raided British coastal towns. These operations...
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Campania Battlecruiser force Commander-in-Chief: VAdm Sir William Pakenham in battlecruiser Lion 1st BCS (RAdm Sir Henry Oliver) battlecruisers: Repulse...
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