An item referred to the magazine Marine Rundschau dated December 1937 reported that the intention to arm the five King George V-class battleships to arm with 35,6cm met quite a lot of criticism.(1) According to Hector Bywater (2) in his article in the newspaper Daily Telegraph was it impossible to use 9-40,6cm guns if the other demands of armour, speed, floating ability and so on were not neglected. Bywater thought that instead of arming the battleships with 9-35,6cm guns there were to more to be placed resulting in broadside salvo with the same shells weight as fired by 9-40,6cm guns. While one 40,6cm shell weighed 1.000 kilo were 14-36,5cm guns needed to get the similar broadside effect.
Notes
1. The King George V-class with a deep load displacement of 42.923 tons and a main armament of 2x4+1x2-10-36cm/14“ Mark VII guns.
2. Hector Charles Bywater (21 October 1884 London, England-16/17 August 1940 London, England). Journalist and military writer.
