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N3 battleship
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The '''N3 battleship''' was a planned
battleship for the
Royal Navy after
World War I. They were never built because of the
Washington Naval Treaty signed in 1921 which prevented an arms race between the major naval powers.
In the post War period the Royal Navy was faced with the task of trying to maintain a superiority over the other major nations Japan and the USA, who had the resources and intention to create equivalent or better navies. The Great War had taken its toll of the Imperial economy and although large in numbers the Royal Navy included many older designs.
The N3 design was directly related to the
G3 battlecruiser drawn up at the same time in that they were both built with similar ideas in mind and it used the same layout of the main guns being disposed to the front of the ship. However while the G3 was expected to achieve a fast 32 knots and was armed with 16 inch guns, the equally sized but heavier N3 battleships would carry much larger armament - 18 inch guns - but at the expense of a slower speed.
Since the G3 were given greater priority than the N3, the latter were never even named before cancellation. It has been suggested that if they had been built they would have been named after the four
patron saints of the countries of the United Kingdom -
St Andrew,
St David,
St George, and
St Patrick.
Planned specification
*Displacement: 48,000-tons
*Length: 815 feet
*Beam:106 ft
*Draught: 33 ft
*Machinery: two shafts, 56,000 shp
*Speed: 23.5 knots
*Armour:
**Belt: 15 inches
**Deck: 8 inches
**
Barbettes: 15 inches
*Armament
**Main: 9 x 18 inch /L45 in three turrets
**Secondary: 16 6 inch guns in 8 twin turrets
**6 HA 4.7 inch guns
**4 ten-barrel
Pom-Pom (gun) 2 pdr pom-pom mounts
**2 24.5 inch underwater torpedo tubes
*Aircraft: 2 for spotting and recconaissance
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N3 battleship'''
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Category: Royal Navy battleships
