HMS Queen Mary

Type:
Battlecruiser
Class:
Builder:
Palmer's Shipbuilding &
Iron Company Ltd.
Jarrow-on-Tyne, England
Pennant Number:
N/A
Ordered:
1910
Launched:
March 20, 1912
Keel Laid:
March 6, 1911
Commissioned:
April 9, 1913
Fate:
Sunk May 31, 1916 at the Battle of Jutland by gunfire from SMS Derfflinger and
SMS Seydlitz.
(Wreck located in 1991)

Location: North Sea, west of Jutland, Denmark.

1,257 crewmen killed, 9 survivors.
(Note some sources list as many as 1,278 killed)
(Roll of Honour)


Dimensions, machinery and performance
Length:
700'
Engines:
4 Parsons geared steam turbines
Beam:
88' 9 "
Boilers:
42 Yarrow (coal fired with oil backup)
Draft:
27' std. / 28' 10" full
Shafts:
4
Displacement:
27,300 std. / 30,710 full
HP:
70,000
Speed:
27 knots
Crew:
1000+
Range:
5,610 NM @ 10 knots / 2,420 NM @ 23.9 knots


Armament as built
Number Carried
Type
Arrangement
Maximum Range / Ceiling
8
13.5"/45 (343mm)
Mk V (H)
4 twin turrets
23,740 yards @ 20° (13.4 miles)
1,400 lb. AP shell
Rate of fire 1-2 RPM

16
4"/50 (102mm)
BL Mk VII
Single mounts
casemates
11,600 yards @ 15° (6.5 miles)
31 lb. HE shell
Rate of fire 6-8 RPM

2
21" (533mm)
torpedo tubes
broadside
submerged
10,750 yards @ 31 knots (6.1 miles)
4,500 yards @ 45 knots (2.5 miles)
515 lb. TNT warhead


History
Aug. 28, 1914:
Battle of Heligoland Bight.


Builder's Data
Page published Oct. 19, 2007