HMS Eva Waterly-Davion (BB-EWD-002)

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HMS Eva Waterly-Davion during the Divide War.
History
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Name: HMS Eva Waterly-Davion
Namesake: Eva Waterly-Davion
Ordered: 5 September 1901
Builder: Royal Shipbuilders of Cacerta
Laid down: 5 January 1902
Launched: 14 September 1902
Commissioned: 15 December 1902
Decommissioned: 23 October 1920
Struck: 11 January 1924
Honors and
awards:
Divide War: 9
Fate: Broken up for scrap, 7 June 1924
General characteristics
Class and type: Eerika Waterly-Davion-class battleship
Displacement:
  • 18,873 tons standard
  • 21,020 tons fully loaded
Length: 146 meters
Beam: 26.8 meters
Draft: 8.9 meters
Propulsion:
  • 2 × Andura steam turbines
  • 16 × Andura boilers
  • 4 × shafts each driving four-bladed propellers
  • 17,000 kW (23,000 shp)
Speed: 21 knots (39 km/h)
Range: 8,300 nmi at 12 knots
Complement: 1,008 officers and crew
Armament:
  • Guns:
  • 12 × 28cm L-45 guns (6 × 2)
  • 12 × 15cm L-45 guns (12 × 1)
  • 16 × 9cm L-45 guns (16 × 1)
  • Other:
  • 6 × 45cm torpedo tubes (2 × 3)
Armor:
  • Belt: 102 – 279 mm
  • Deck: 19 – 76 mm
  • Barbettes: 102 – 279 mm
  • Turrets: 76 – 305 mm
  • Conning tower: 279 mm
  • Bulkheads: 203 mm

The HMS Eva Waterly-Davion (BB-EWD-002) was the second of the Eerika Waterly-Davion-class battleships and one of the original six dreadnought battleships built for the Cacertian Royal Navy. Built in relatively quick time, the Eva was laid down in January 1902, launched in September, and commissioned in December before the end of the year. She was armed with twelve 28cm guns in dual turrets arranged in a hexagonal pattern like her sister ships.

Eva, alongside the Eerika, served during the entirety of the Divide War and ended up earning more battle crosses than her sister. She provided critical artillery support for the Cacertian landings as part of the Desopya Campaign and remained on station to provide further naval gunfire. Following the failure of the campaign and the eventual withdrawal of Cacertian troops from Syara, the Eva was one of the last remaining Cacertian warships to depart for home.

After the conclusion of the Divide War, Eva remained a part of the CRN’s reserve fleet beginning in 1919 before eventually being sold for scrap in 1924.