HMS Valiant was a British battleship whose keel was laid in 1913, launched in November 1914, and commissioned in the British Royal Navy in February 1916. The total length of the ship was 197 m, width 27.6 m, and full displacement - 36,500 tons. The maximum speed of the battleship Valiant was around 25 knots. The main armament at the time of the launch was eight 381 mm guns in four twin turrets. The secondary armament consists of 14 152mm guns, 2 76mm guns, 4 47mm pom-poms, and 4 533mm torpedo tubes.
HMS Valiant was one of five Queen Elizabeth-class battleships. Battleships of this type were built just before the outbreak of World War I, as a British response to the rapid naval armament of the Second German Reich. They are often referred to as super-dreadnoughts - for the first time in the history of the navy, 381 mm artillery with 42-caliber barrels was used on them, and for the first time battleships reached a speed of about 25 knots. Many of the solutions used on this type were reflected in later British battleships. All ships of the Queen Elizabeth class also underwent significant modifications in the interwar period: first of all, they received new engine rooms, better and more efficient boilers, their armor was thickened, the profile of superstructures was changed and the anti-aircraft artillery was significantly expanded. Thanks to these upgrades, these ships were not inferior to other German or Italian battleships, as well as many Japanese battleships - with the exception of the Yamato class. The battleship HMS Valiant was built at the Fairfield Shipyard in Govan. From the moment he entered service, he was part of the Grand Fleet and as part of it took part in the Battle of Jutland in 1916. For the rest of World War I, he did not enter into any serious combat contact with German ships. In the course of the next world war, the first major action of the battleship HMS Valiant was participation in the operation "Catapult" (July 1940), that is, the destruction of the French navy at the base in Mers-el-Kebir. In March 1941, he took part in the Battle of Cape Matapan, and later - in the battles related to the occupation of Crete by the German army. HMS Valiant was later severely damaged by an attack by Italian divers on December 19, 1941 at the port of Alexandria. The renovation - first in Egypt and then in Durban, South Africa - lasted until July 7, 1942. After returning to service, he was sent back to the Mediterranean Sea, where he supported Operation Husky, that is, the Allied landing in Sicily in July 1943. A year later, in 1944, he was sent to the Far East against the Japanese fleet. The battleship HMS Valiant was decommissioned in July 1945 and sold for scrap in 1950.