Editing Queen Elizabeth-class battleship (section)

==Ships==
A further ship was authorised in 1914 and would have been named ''Agincourt'' (a name later applied to [[HMS Agincourt (1913)|a dreadnought expropriated from Ottoman Turkey]]). Although most sources and several official papers in the class's [[Ships Cover]]{{efn-lr|A Ships Cover was an official volume prepared by the Constructor's Department and contained machinery contracts, rough design specifications, trials reports, and other documents relating to the design, construction, and repair work for a specific class of ships. Surviving Covers are held by the [[National Maritime Museum]] at its out-station in [[Woolwich]].}} describe her as a further repeat of the ''Queen Elizabeth'' design, one historian - Nicholas Lambert - has claimed that ''Agincourt'' would have been built on battlecruiser lines. This design would have kept the ''Queen Elizabeth'' armament, but substituted thinner armour down to {{convert|10|in|mm|0}} instead of {{convert|12|in|mm|0}}, for example] in order to gain a {{convert|28|kn|adj=on}} top speed.<ref>Lambert, Nicholas A. "'Our Bloody Ships' or 'Our Bloody System': Jutland and the Loss of the Battle Cruisers, 1916." ''The Journal of Military History'': '''61''', January 1998, pp. 29–55</ref>

Whatever the case, ''Agincourt'' was cancelled at the outbreak of war in 1914.<ref name=autogenerated1>Breyer, p. 140.</ref> The cancellation, proposed by Churchill in memoranda of 1 and 14 June 1914, was intended to shave around £900,000 off that year's naval estimates, which had met with resistance from leading members of the ruling Liberal Party. It had been proposed to build a new type of semi-submersible [[torpedo cruiser]], the [[HMS Polyphemus|''Polyphemus'']] class, in place of ''Agincourt'', and submarines in place of another planned battleship, {{HMS|Resistance}}, and in place of all but two or three of that year's planned destroyers.<ref>Lambert 1999, pp. 300–301</ref>

{|class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
|+ Construction data
|-
!scope="col"|Name
!scope="col"|Builder
!scope="col"|[[Laid down]]
!scope="col"|[[Ceremonial ship launching|Launched]]
!scope="col"|[[Ship commissioning|Commissioned]]
!scope="col"|Fate
|-
!scope="row"|{{HMS|Queen Elizabeth|1913|2}}
|[[HMNB Portsmouth|HM Dockyard, Portsmouth]] 
|21 October 1912
|16 October 1913 
|22 December 1914
|Broken up at [[Dalmuir]], 1948
|-
!scope="row"|{{HMS|Warspite|03|2}}
|[[HMNB Devonport|HM Dockyard, Devonport]]
|31 October 1912
|26 November 1913
|8 March 1915
|Towed for scrapping at [[Faslane]]; ran aground at [[Prussia Cove]] April 1947<br />Broken up at [[Marazion]], 1950
|-
!scope="row"|{{HMS|Valiant|1914|2}}
|[[Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company|Fairfield]], [[Clydebank]]
|31 January 1913 
|4 November 1914
|13 January 1916 
|Broken up at [[Cairnryan]], 1948
|-
!scope="row"|{{HMS|Barham|04|2}}
|[[John Brown & Company|John Brown]], Clydebank
|24 February 1913
|31 December 1914 
|19 October 1915
|Sunk by submarine, 25 November 1941
|-
!scope="row"|{{HMS|Malaya||2}}
|[[Armstrong Whitworth]], [[Tyneside]]
|20 October 1913
|18 March 1915  
|1 February 1916
|Broken up at [[Faslane]], 1948
|-
!scope="row"|''Agincourt''
|HM Dockyard, Portsmouth
| {{n/a}}
| {{n/a}}
| {{n/a}}
|Cancelled, August 1914
|}