![]() The Lion was the fastest battleship developed by Britain to that time, with a main armament of new-style 16-inch guns that were superior to the Mk I 16-inch weapons fitted to the Nelson class of the 1920s. By 1938 the five King George V class were under construction and the first two examples of their successors, the Lions, were due to be laid down in 1939. As war clouds loomed over Europe in the late 1930s, Britain’s last generation of battleships were well in hand.
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