With its unique wing turrets, the Dreadnought class battleship offers considerable hitting power without great cost. As Admiral Fischer put it, "A 12 inch gun [fires] one aimed round each minute. Six guns allow a deliberately aimed shell with a hugh bursting charge every ten seconds. Fifty percent of these should be hits at 6,000 yards. Three 12 inch shells bursting on board every minute would be HELL!"
- Displacement
- 18,110 tons load; 21,845 tons deep load.
- Dimensions
- 527 feet oa x 82 feet x 31 feet (deep load).
- Machinery
- 4-shaft Parsons turbines and 18 Babcock & Wilcox boilers producing 23,000 shaft horsepower and a top speed of 21 knots. At 10 knots the range is 6,620 nautical miles.
- Armor
- 11 inch belt, barbette, turret face, and conning tower; 3 inch deck.
- Armament
- Ten 12-inch 45 caliber guns in twin turrets; twenty-four 12-pounder guns in single mounts; five 18-inch torpedo tubes.
- Complement
- 773 officers and men.
