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HMS Ajax (1912)
HMS ''Ajax'' was a ''King George V''-class battleship (one of four ships of the class), built at Scotts' shipyard at Greenock on the River Clyde. She was completed in 1913 and saw action at the Battle of Jutland in 1916 and in the Mediterranean and Black Seas in 1919, before being decommissioned in 1924.
The armed merchant cruiser HMS ''Princess'' served as a dummy for ''Ajax'' beginning in 1916.
== Design and description ==
HMS ''Ajax'' was the last of the four ships of the ''King George V''-class battleships to be laid down. The class had been intended to be a repeat of the preceding ''Orion'' class, but experience with this class enabled improvements to be incorporated into ''Ajax'', and her sister , at an early stage of construction. The most significant of these, and that which added most to her fighting efficiency, was the positioning of the foremast forward of the fore-funnel rather than behind it. It had been found that in ships in which the foremast and the fighting top were aft of the funnel, which arrangement existed in herself and in the ''Colossus'' class, funnel smoke could render the fighting top essentially uninhabitable.〔''British Battleships'' Oscar Parkes p. 482 ISBN 0-85052-604-3〕 This ship, together with HMS ''Audacious'', was also designed, unlike her earlier sisters and to be equipped with director firing which necessitated the provision of a stronger foremast than had been initially envisaged. The internal armour protection was also improved as against the earlier class, the anti-torpedo armament was improved (q.v.) and the speed increased by about one knot.〔''British Battleships of World War One'' R.A. Burt p.169 ISBN 0-85368-771-4〕
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