Royal Navy Battleships

[mescal]

Hello,

After completing a short study of the availability of the cruisers of the main Navies, I turned to a similar work regarding the BBs of those navies.

Most of the data in the following charts are most probably well-known, but I still feel that such a synthetic view may be helpful.

The color code is still the same :
Green : available
Red : Sunk
Orange : Combat damage
Yellow : Noncombat damage
Light Blue : Training
Purple : under repair/refit/overhaul ... = unavailable
Brown : withdrawn from active service
Grey : building

The codes for the locations are :
HW : Home Fleet / Home Waters
MS : Mediterranean Sea
RS : Red Sea
IO : Indian Ocean
A : Atlantic (middle & north)
SA : South Atlantic
G : Gibraltar / Force H
P : Pacific

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[mescal]

And here are some more data - or more precisely another view of the data presented above.
This table focus on the availability per ship, and on the geographic areas where those BBs were deployed.

The labels of geogrpahic areas remains the same as before. U stands for Unavailable and T for Training & Trials.
The "hits taken" count only takes into account the hits that led to at least one month of unavailability, as well as those which led to the loss of the ship (so 5 of those hits did not imply any time in dockyard).
The "total" is the sum of the previous columns, i.e. it excludes the building time as well as the months after the sinking of a ship.

RN_BB_nb1.jpg

So over the course of the war, the RN had around 25% of its BB fleet unavailable for repairs, maintenance & refit.
(this is very close to the USN value -- cf. the thread on USN BBs in this forum).

I will try to find time to do this analysis on a year by year basis.
And a breakdown of the geographic involvment by ship class would also be interesting (committing two R had not the same significance as committing two KGV)