King George V-Class Battleships Knowles Daniel
King George V-Class Battleships Knowles Daniel Following the First World War the major naval powers entered into an agreement restricting the construction of capital ships and limiting the numbers…
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King George V-Class Battleships Knowles Daniel
Following the First World War the major naval powers entered into an agreement restricting the construction of capital ships and limiting the numbers that signatories were allowed to maintain, so numerous ships were scrapped or disposed of and the majority of planned vessel were either canceled whilst being built or never laid down. In 1928 the Royal Navy began planning a new class of battleships which was put on hold with the signing of the Treaty of London. By the late 1920s the Royal Navy's battle force comprised of the two Nelson-class ships, the battlecruisers 'Hood', 'Renown' and 'Repulse', and 'Revenge' and Queen Elizabeth-class ships, all designed before the First World War.
The result was the In 1935, realizing its battle fleet was becoming dated as other nations laid down new classes of battleships, the Royal Navy recommenced planning capital ships within treaty limitations.