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This ship has turrets in superpositions which was very high tech for it's time, it didn't arrive on Royal Navy battleships untill well after dreadnought. This is where a turret is placed behind and above another. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.247.12.181 ( talk) 14:19, 9 September 2014 (UTC) reply

The design is better thought of as a two-story turret as the upper part couldn't rotate independently. Super-firing turrets were entirely independent and far more useful in combat.-- Sturmvogel 66 ( talk) 15:46, 9 September 2014 (UTC) reply

The designation "BB" only came into existence in 1920. When commissioned she would have have been "Battleship #5; in 1909 "B-5" would have started to come into use. She was converted to a crane ship in 1920 and redesignated IX-16 (briefly) and then AB-1. "BB" came into use on July 17 1920, the same day she was recommissioned as a crane ship so she never went under the "BB" designation and was never listed as BB-5. Any source that says otherwise would be anachronistic and wrong. Herostratus ( talk) 09:30, 2 February 2019 (UTC) reply