The Ships of Brawling Battleships Steel: Great Britain Battleship Neptune

Laid down on January 19, 1909, launched on September 30, 1909 and commissioned on November 11, 1911, Neptune carried a main armament of ten 12 inch main guns mounted two per turret; one centerline forward, two centerline superfiring aft and one wing turret per side that could fire fore and aft and to both sides. Neptune was the lone ship in her battleship class, although she was a “near” sister ship to the Colossus class ships. It was turbine powered with coal-fired boilers. The Neptune, named after the bad-tempered Roman god of the sea, was an honored and much-used name in the Royal Navy, including a mighty 98-gun three-decker that was one ship back from Admiral Horatio Nelson’s (1758–1805) Victory in the British Weather Division at the Battle of Trafalgar (October 21, 1805). Neptune was the flagship of the Grand Fleet from 1911 to the start of World War One. She was involved in a collision with a neutral steamer in April 1916 and took part in the Battle of Jutland on May 31, 1916. Placed in reserve in April 1919, she was sold for breaking up in September 1922.

See other battleships: Hercules, Orion, Vanguard