Revenge Class Battleships Class Overview |
Name |
Builder |
Launched |
Commissioned |
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Devonport Dockyard Plymouth, England |
Nov. 17, 1914 |
May 1, 1916 |
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Fate |
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Sunk Oct. 14, 1939 by U-47 (torpedo).
Location: Scapa Flow, Orkney Islands 833 crewmen were killed. |
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Name |
Builder |
Launched |
Commissioned |
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Palmer's Shipbuilding Ltd. Jarrow-on-Tyne, England |
Jan. 14, 1915 |
Dec. 7, 1916 |
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Fate |
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Sold May 5, 1948 to Metal Industries and scrapped at Faslane, Scotland.
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Name |
Builder |
Launched |
Commissioned |
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Portsmouth Dockyard Portsmouth, England |
Apr. 29, 1915 |
Apr. 18, 1916 |
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Fate |
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Sold to T. W. Ward on Apr. 5, 1949 and scrapped at Inverkeithing, Scotland.
*Loaned to the Soviet Navy from May 30, 1944 to Feb. 9, 1949 and renamed Archangelsk. |
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Name |
Builder |
Launched |
Commissioned |
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Vickers Ltd. Barrow-in-Furness, England |
May 29, 1915 |
Feb. 1, 1916 |
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Fate |
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Sold to T. W. Ward in July 1948 and scrapped at Inverkeithing, Scotland.
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Name |
Builder |
Launched |
Commissioned |
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William Beardmore & Co. Ltd. Dailmuir, Scotland |
Sept. 12, 1916 |
Sept. 1, 1917 |
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Fate |
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Sold to Arnott Young Feb. 20, 1948, stripped in Cairnryan, Scotland,
hull scrapped in Troon, Scotland. |
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Name |
Builder |
Launched |
Commissioned |
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Repulse |
Palmer's Shipbuilding Ltd. Jarrow-on-Tyne, England |
N/A |
N/A |
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Fate |
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Ordered in May 1914 but construction suspended in Aug. 1914.
1915 reordered with a modified design but, work was moved to John Brown, completed as a Renown Class battlecruiser. |
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Name |
Builder |
Launched |
Commissioned |
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Renown |
Fairfield Shipbuilding Ltd. Govan, Scotland |
N/A |
N/A |
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Fate |
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Ordered in May 1914 but construction suspended in Aug. 1914.
1915 reordered with a modified design and completed as a Renown Class battlecruiser. |
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Name |
Builder |
Launched |
Commissioned |
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Resistance |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
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Fate |
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Ordered in 1914 but cancelled in Jan. 1915.
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Class Notes: |
Also referred to as Royal Sovereign Class or R Class. |
Two of the turrets from the Royal Oak were salvaged and used on the monitors Abercrombie and Roberts |