HMS Howe (1940)
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| Career |
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| Ordered: | |
| Laid down: | 1 June 1937 |
| Launched: | 9 April 1940 |
| Commissioned: | 29 August 1942 |
| Decommissioned: | |
| Fate: | Scrapped at Inverkeithing in 1958 |
| Struck: | |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 36,727 tons standard, 42,076 tons full |
| Length: | 227 m |
| Beam: | 31.4 m |
| Draught: | 10.5 m |
| Propulsion: | 110,000 hp to four shafts |
| Speed: | 29.5 knots (54 km/h) |
| Range: | 6,000 nm at 14 knots |
| Complement: | 1422 |
| Armament: |
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| Aircraft: | 2 (until 1943) |
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Built at the Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd. shipyard in Govan and launched in 1940, the ship was originally to be named Beatty after the commander of the British battlecruisers at Jutland, but she was renamed Howe in February 1940.
Howe was part of the Home Fleet in 1942 and early 1943, then joined Force H in the Mediterranean. She was refitted between October 1943 and June 1944 then joined the British Pacific Fleet. After the war she was used as a training ship.
Howe was broken up along with the other three ships of her class which survived the Second World War in 1957.
See HMS Howe for other ships of the same name.
External link
| King George V-class battleship |
| King George V | Prince of Wales | Duke of York | Anson | Howe |
| List of battleships of the Royal Navy |
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