Revenge Class Battleships Class Overview


Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Devonport Dockyard
Plymouth, England

Nov. 17, 1914
May 1, 1916
Fate
Sunk Oct. 14, 1939 by U-47 (torpedo).

Location: Scapa Flow, Orkney Islands

833 crewmen were killed.
Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Palmer's Shipbuilding Ltd.
Jarrow-on-Tyne, England

Jan. 14, 1915
Dec. 7, 1916
Fate
Sold May 5, 1948 to Metal Industries and scrapped at Faslane, Scotland.
Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Portsmouth Dockyard
Portsmouth, England

Apr. 29, 1915
Apr. 18, 1916
Fate
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.
Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Vickers Ltd.
Barrow-in-Furness, England

May 29, 1915
Feb. 1, 1916
Fate
Sold to T. W. Ward in July 1948 and scrapped at Inverkeithing, Scotland.
Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
William Beardmore & Co. Ltd.
Dailmuir, Scotland

Sept. 12, 1916
Sept. 1, 1917
Fate
Sold to Arnott Young Feb. 20, 1948, stripped in Cairnryan, Scotland,
hull scrapped in Troon, Scotland.
Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Repulse
Palmer's Shipbuilding Ltd.
Jarrow-on-Tyne, England

N/A
N/A
Fate
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.
Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Renown
Fairfield Shipbuilding Ltd.
Govan, Scotland

N/A
N/A
Fate
Ordered in May 1914 but construction suspended in Aug. 1914.
1915 reordered with a modified design and completed as a
Renown Class battlecruiser.
Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Resistance
N/A
N/A
N/A
Fate
Ordered in 1914 but cancelled in Jan. 1915.


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