Ships · United Kingdom · 1940-1943
HMS Warspite
battleship
A veteran of Jutland, Warspite led the night action that destroyed three Italian cruisers at Cape Matapan and later fired her 15in guns in support of the Salerno beachhead, where she was badly damaged by a German radio-guided glide bomb.
| displacement | 31,315 tons (standard, after her 1934-37 reconstruction), 36,450 deep load |
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| armament | 8x 15in main guns |
| crew | approx. 1,200-1,300 |
| launched | 1913 (extensively modernised) |
Mediterranean and North Africa, Western Europe