HMS King George V (41)
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HMS King George V was the lead ship of the five British King George V-class battleships of the Royal Navy. Laid down in 1937 and commissioned in 1940, King George V operated during the Second World Wa
HMS King George V enters Apra Harbour, Guam with sailors on deck in 1945
Interior of one of the 14-inch turrets, looking forward from the gunloading cage
One of the main deck QF 5.25-inch gun turrets in 1945
Damage to the bow of HMS King George V, after her collision with HMS Punjabi in dense fog on 1 May 1942, at Seyðisfjörður, Iceland.
HMS Rodney (29)
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HMS Rodney was one of two Nelson-class battleships built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1920s. The ship entered service in 1928, and spent her peacetime career with the Atlantic and Home Fleets, someti
HMS King George V (41)
…major naval theatres of war, the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Pacific, as part of the British Home Fleet and Pacific Fleets. In May 1941, along with HMS Rodney, King George V was involved in the hunt for and pursuit of the German battleship Bismarck, eventually inflicting severe damage which led to the German…
Rodney in May 1942
Installing a 16-inch gun in 'A' turret, February 1942
Hoisting a Walrus amphibian aboard
Octuple '"pom-pom" gunnery training, October 1940