![]() Her 381mm AP can overmatch up to 26mm plating, which includes the bow and stern of mid tier battleships and non-German or American high tier cruisers. Her HE damage and fire chance are average for a Tier VII battleship, but she lacks both the increased fire chance and penetration of the main battleship line. Rooke carries nine 381mm guns in three triple turrets, the same guns and turrets as found on Tier VIII Monarch. Like Renown, she’s most comfortable out on a flank at mid range, punishing broadsides and creating crossfires while avoiding return fire. Representing the J3 battlecruiser design, Tier VII Rooke continues the distinctive characteristics of British battlecruisers - high speed, good concealment, improved main battery accuracy, and turning torpedoes, but shorter gun range and lower survivability. The data presented in the AA Defense sidebar section may be incorrect.įor a graphic summary of ships Tiers VIII thru XI see LittleWhiteMouse's "Actual AA DPS". The pair were scrapped after the war.Warning. The surviving pair spent most of the rest of the war assigned to the Northern Patrol unsuccessfully searching for German warships and commerce raiders. All three were present at the Battle of Jutland in May 1916, where Defence was sunk with the loss of all men on board. Shannon remained with the Grand Fleet, as the Home Fleet was renamed, for the entire war. ![]() When World War I began in August 1914, Defence participated in the pursuit of the German ships SMS Goeben and SMS Breslau and Minotaur hunted for the German East Asia Squadron and German commerce raiders in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. 5 × submerged 18 in (450 mm) torpedo tubes.16 × single QF 12-pounder (3 inch, 76 mm) 18-cwt guns.Minotaur at anchor, shortly after she was completedĢ shafts 2 triple-expansion steam enginesĨ,150 nmi (15,090 km 9,380 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h 12 mph)
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