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| | + | HMS Warspite was a Queen Elizabeth-class battleship, the sixth warship of the Royal Navy to carry the name. Her thirty-year career covered both world wars and took her across the Atlantic, Indian, Arctic and Pacific Oceans. She was involved in several major engagements, including battles in the North Sea and Mediterranean, earning her the most battle honours ever awarded to an individual ship in the Royal Navy and the most awarded for actions during the Second World War. For this and other reasons Warspite gained the nickname the "Grand Old Lady" after a comment made by her most famous commander, Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham in 1943. |
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| | + | When she was launched in 1913 the use of oil as fuel and untried 15-inch guns were revolutionary concepts in the naval arms race between Britain and Germany, a considerable risk for Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, and Admiral John Fisher who had advocated the design. However, the new "fast battleships" proved to be an outstanding success during the First World War. Warspite was refitted twice between the wars, but advances in technology and the cumulative effects of battle damage relegated her to the role of shore bombardment towards the end of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in 1945 and wrecked off the Cornish coast on the way to the scrap yard. |
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| | + | File:HMS Warspite (1913) title.jpg|Warspite under way in the Indian Ocean, 16 July 1942 |
| | + | File:Линкоры «Уорспайт» и «Малайя» в бою..jpg|Warspite and Malaya at Jutland |
| | + | File:Nms malaya 1915 2.jpg|Diagram of the Queen Elizabeth class published by Brassey's Naval Annual in 1923 |
| | + | File:HMS Warspite ведет огонь по немецким батареям под Нарвиком - 1940 г.jpg|Warspite engaging shore batteries during the Second Battle of Narvik |
| | + | File:HMS Warspite в Средиземном море под огнем противника - 1941 г.JPG|Warspite under attack in the Mediterranean, 1941 |
| | + | File:The Royal Navy during the Second World War- Madagascar, April - May 1942 A9712.jpg|A Grumman Martlet from HMS Formidable flying over HMS Warspite during operations off Madagascar |
| | + | File:HMS Warspite, Sicily 1943.jpg|Warspite shelling German positions at Catania, July 1943 |
| | + | File:The Royal Navy during the Second World War A19248.jpg|Captain Packer (right) directing the bombardment at Reggio, September 1943 |
| | + | File:HMS Warspite поддерживает высадку в Нормандии - 6 июня 1944 г.jpg|Warspite bombarding defensive positions off Normandy, 6 June 1944 |
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Warspite — British special premium Tier VI battleship.
HMS Warspite joined the Fifth Battleship Squadron in 1915. She participated in the Battle of Jutland and was the flagship of the Mediterranean Fleet after World War I. With the start of World War II, the ship was transferred to the Home Fleet and participated in the Battle of Narvik, where she sank a German destroyer. In 1940, she returned to the Mediterranean Sea and managed to hit the flagship of the Italian fleet during the Battle of Punta Stilo. In 1941, the ship sank two Italian heavy cruisers during the Battle of Cape Matapan. In 1943–1944, the battleship covered the landing of Allied troops in Sicily and Normandy as part of the Eastern Fleet.
An archetypal battleship, the Warspite presents all what a battleship was meant to do as one of the first superdreadnoughts sent to sea. This "Grand Old Lady" can slug it out at medium range, doing massive damage with its 15 inch guns while dodging torpedoes and shrugging off gunfire. The guns marginally outrange the 14 inch guns on the New Mexico and although her US counterpart can increase her range and her Japanese counterpart having the highest range out of all three of them in their tier, this ship has a more narrower shell dispersion than either two. Her defensive armament is decidedly average, with better secondary batteries than the New Mexico and better AA batteries than the Fuso. This is a warship that belongs just behind the cruisers in a battle line, providing fire support where needed and taking pressure off of less sturdy allies and in a tier 6 max battle, a skilled player in a Warspite can have a huge impact in the match if circumstances are with them.
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