HMS [i]Warspite[/i], second of the [i]Queen Elizabeth[/i]-class battleships, as personified in [[Kantai Collection]].
Character design by [[Konishi (koconatu)]], voiced by [[Uchida Shuu]].

h4. Appearance
She has [[long hair|long]] [[blonde hair]] styled in a [[half up braid]] and [[blue eyes]] conforming to the Japanese stereotype of Western foreigners, along with a broader nose and face than the Japanese shipgirls in the game. Her outfit consists of a [[long sleeves|long sleeved]] [[corset|corseted]] [[white dress|white]] [[off-shoulder dress]] with a [[red ribbon]] placed at the front; said ribbon having a [[red rose]] in the middle. On her head she wears a black hairband with a [[mini crown]] on the side. Her legwear is comprised of [[white legwear|white]] [[thighhighs]] held up by [[garter straps]] and [[high heels|high heeled]] [[black footwear|black]] [[mary janes]].  Despite being a [i]Queen Elizabeth[/i]-class, her jewerly is moderate and only consists of a couple silver necklaces. The [[machinery]] behind her is in the shape of a [[throne]] on which she sits on. She carries a [[globus cruciger]] in her left hand and a [[scepter]]-like mast in her right hand.

She is often considered the first foreign shipgirl to actually be able to speak her native language properly by fans, unlike those before her (the German and Italian shipgirls, [[iowa (kancolle)|Iowa]], [[kongou (kancolle)|Kongou]] and [[verniy (kancolle)|Verniy]] to an extent) that have been notorious for their [[ranguage]]. She even goes so far as to speak her English lines in a native-sounding, vaguely British accent (largely thanks to her voice actress being born in Australia). Although Warspite speaks with a Western-sounding accent, actual sentences, such as "Sally go!" demonstrate grammar a native speaker would not use.

h4. Personality
Warspite behaves in (the Japanese impression of) the manner of a sedate, high-class British lady. Due to the connection of the English language, several of her lines reference Iowa and Kongou, and she is often depicted in fanart alongside one or both of the two. Due to her war history, she has a connection to several other ships, as well. She also has hourly lines regarding a grudge against the German ships, talking about her shared history with Italian ships [[littorio (kancolle)|Littorio]] and [[roma (kancolle)|Roma]] at the hands of the Luftwaffe, while [[zara (kancolle)|Zara]] and [[pola (kancolle)|Pola]] fear her. 

h4. History
The historic HMS [i]Warspite[/i] was the Royal Navy's most decorated battleship. 

She served in World War I in the critical "Battle of Jutland":[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Jutland], where she took damage from about 150 rounds, including damage to her port engine room that caused her steering to jam. This damage to her steering system was never fully repaired, and plagued the ship for the rest of her service history. 

Beyond this, there was also an event where HMS [i]Warspite[/i] was attacked by a German U-boat, and because none of her escorts were close to effectively screen her, her captain chose to attempt to ram the submarine, instead. She also was involved in three different collisions between World War I and the start of World War II, although only a collision with the HMS [i]Valiant[/i] inflicted significant enough damage to [i]Warspite[/i] to warrant major repairs.  Between the wars, she also suffered a major boiler room fire, "a mutiny":[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invergordon_Mutiny], and underwent major remodeling. (This technically changed her from a Battlecruiser to officially being considered a Battleship.) 

During World War II, HMS [i]Warspite[/i] served in the Mediterranean, Atlantic, and Indian Ocean theaters of war. In the Atlantic, during the "Second Battle of Narvik":[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battles_of_Narvik#Second_Naval_Battle_of_Narvik] Fairey Swordfish from [i]Warspite[/i] sank the U-boat [i]"U-64":[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-64_(1939)][/i], marking the first aircraft kill of a U-boat in the war, as well as sank one and damaged two other German destroyers. In 1940 and 42, she served in the Mediterranean, and participated in the battles of "Calabria":[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Calabria], where she "managed to land one of the longest-range hits at a moving target in naval history,":/posts/2495582 upon Italian battleship [i]Giulio Cesare[/i]; the "Battle of Taranto":[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Taranto] by providing air support; the "Battle of Cape Matapan":[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cape_Matapan], where she sank the Italian cruisers [i]Zara[/i] and [i]Pola[/i]; and inadvertently in "The Battle of Crete":[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Crete], where she was struck by several Luftwaffe bombs, and forced to leave the theater for repair by traveling through the Suez Canal, and then eastward to the west coast of the United States.  Then serving 1942 in the Indian Ocean, she participated in the "Indian Ocean Raid":https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Ocean_raid although she failed to make contact with the IJN, and later participated in covering several landings in Southeast Asia.  In 1943, she returned to the Mediterranean to assist in the Invasions of "Sicily":https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_invasion_of_Sicily and "Italy":[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_invasion_of_Italy]. After the Italian surrender, [i]Warspite[/i] attempted to escort the [i]Littorio[/i] and [i]Roma[/i] out of Italy, but [i]Warspite[/i] and [i]Littorio[/i] were seriously damaged, and [i]Roma[/i] was sunk by Luftwaffe attacks using the "Fritz-X guided missile":[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_X]. She served the last years of the war in the Atlantic, where she provided covering fire for the "Normandy landings":[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandy_landings], and bombarded German coastal positions thereafter. 

After this long career, she was turned over for scrapping after the end of World War II.

h4. See also
* [[Warspite (Azur Lane)]]

h4. External links
* "Wikipedia: HMS Warspite (03)":[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Warspite_(03)]
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