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Battlecruiser and HMS Prince of Wales (53)

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Difference between Battlecruiser and HMS Prince of Wales (53)

Battlecruiser vs. HMS Prince of Wales (53)

The battlecruiser, or battle cruiser, was a type of capital ship of the first half of the 20th century. HMS Prince of Wales was a ''King George V''-class battleship of the Royal Navy, built at the Cammell Laird shipyard in Birkenhead, England.

Similarities between Battlecruiser and HMS Prince of Wales (53)

Battlecruiser and HMS Prince of Wales (53) have 17 things in common (in Unionpedia): Barbette, Battle of the Denmark Strait, Battleship, Belt armor, Capital ship, Conning tower, Destroyer, Draft (hull), Dry dock, First Sea Lord, Heavy cruiser, Royal Navy, Singapore, Sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse, Sister ship, Steam turbine, Washington Naval Treaty.

Barbette

Barbettes are several types of gun emplacement in terrestrial fortifications or on naval ships.

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Battle of the Denmark Strait

The Battle of the Denmark Strait was a naval engagement on 24 May 1941 in the Second World War, between ships of the Royal Navy and the German Kriegsmarine.

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Battleship

A battleship is a large armored warship with a main battery consisting of large caliber guns.

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Belt armor

Belt armor is a layer of heavy metal armor plated onto or within the outer hulls of warships, typically on battleships, battlecruisers and cruisers, and aircraft carriers.

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Capital ship

The capital ships of a navy are its most important warships; they are generally the larger ships when compared to other warships in their respective fleet.

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Conning tower

A conning tower is a raised platform on a ship or submarine, often armored, from which an officer can conn the vessel, i.e., give directions to the helmsman.

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Destroyer

In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast, maneuverable long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet, convoy or battle group and defend them against smaller powerful short-range attackers.

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Draft (hull)

The draft or draught of a ship's hull is the vertical distance between the waterline and the bottom of the hull (keel), with the thickness of the hull included; in the case of not being included the draft outline would be obtained.

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Dry dock

A dry dock (sometimes dry-dock or drydock) is a narrow basin or vessel that can be flooded to allow a load to be floated in, then drained to allow that load to come to rest on a dry platform.

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First Sea Lord

The First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff (1SL/CNS) is the professional head of the United Kingdom's Royal Navy and the whole Naval Service.

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Heavy cruiser

The heavy cruiser was a type of cruiser, a naval warship designed for long range and high speed, armed generally with naval guns of roughly 203mm calibre (8 inches in caliber) of whose design parameters were dictated by the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930.

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Royal Navy

The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force.

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Singapore

Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign city-state and island country in Southeast Asia.

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Sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse

The sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse was a naval engagement in the Second World War, part of the war in the Pacific, that took place north of Singapore, off the east coast of Malaya, near Kuantan, Pahang, where the British Royal Navy battleship and battlecruiser were sunk by land-based bombers and torpedo bombers of the Imperial Japanese Navy on 10 December 1941.

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Sister ship

A sister ship is a ship of the same class or of virtually identical design to another ship.

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Steam turbine

A steam turbine is a device that extracts thermal energy from pressurized steam and uses it to do mechanical work on a rotating output shaft.

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Washington Naval Treaty

The Washington Naval Treaty, also known as the Five-Power Treaty, the Four-Power Treaty, and the Nine-Power Treaty, was a treaty signed during 1922 among the major nations that had won World War I, which agreed to prevent an arms race by limiting naval construction.

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Battlecruiser and HMS Prince of Wales (53) Comparison

Battlecruiser has 133 relations, while HMS Prince of Wales (53) has 103. As they have in common 17, the Jaccard index is 7.20% = 17 / (133 + 103).

References

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