Battleship Nelson (28)

Nelson

Country	United Kingdom
Ship Class	Nelson-class Battleship
Hull Number	28
Builder	Armstrong-Whitworth, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom
Yard Number	991
Laid Down	28 Dec 1922
Launched	3 Sep 1925
Commissioned	15 Aug 1927
Decommissioned	19 May 1948
Displacement	33,800 tons standard; 38,390 tons full
Length	710 feet
Beam	106 feet
Draft	30 feet
Machinery	8 Admiralty 3-drum boilers
Power Output	45,000 shaft horsepower
Speed	23 knots
Range	7,000nm at 16 knots
Crew	1,314
Armament	3x3x406mm guns, 6x2x152mm guns, 6x120mm anti-aircraft guns, 8x40mm 2pdr anti-aircraft guns, 2x622mm torpedo tubes
Armor	330-356mm waterline belt, 108-159mm deck, 305-381mm barbettes, 229-406mm gun turrets, 152-356mm conning tower, 102-305mm bulkheads

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HMS Nelson entering Portsmouth harbor, Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom, early-1930s.

Force H warships HMS Duke of York, HMS Nelson, HMS Renown, HMS Formidable, and HMS Argonaut underway off North Africa, Nov 1942

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30 Oct 1939

U-56 fired three G7e (TII) torpedoes on HMS Rodney near the Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom; all three missed the target, but two of them hit HMS Nelson situated directly behind HMS Rodney.

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