Royal Sovereign Class Battleships Class Overview

Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Royal Sovereign
Portsmouth Dockyard
Portsmouth, England

Feb. 26, 1891
May 1892
Fate
Sold for scrap Oct. 7, 1913.
Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Empress of India
(ex-Renown)
Pembroke Dockyard
Pembroke, Wales

May 7, 1891
Aug. 1893
Fate
Sunk as target Nov. 4, 1913.

Location: English Channel 26 miles E of Torquay, England (50.29.72N - 02.57.88W).
Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Pembroke Dockyard
Pembroke, Wales

Feb. 27, 1892
Apr. 1894
Fate
Sold for scrap July 27, 1911
Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
J&G Thompson Ltd.
Clydebank, Scotland

Mar. 1, 1892
Oct. 1893
Fate
Sold for scrap Oct. 7, 1913.
Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Palmer's Shipbuilding Ltd.
Jarrow-on-Tyne, England

May 28, 1892
Dec. 5, 1893
Fate
Sold for scrap Apr. 2, 1914.
Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Revenge
(later Redoubtable)
Palmer's Shipbuilding Ltd.
Jarrow-on-Tyne, England

Nov. 3, 1892
Mar. 1894
Fate
Sold for scrap Nov. 6, 1919.

*Renamed Redoubtable in 1915 to free the name.
Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Cammell Laird Ltd.
Birkenhead, England

Nov. 5, 1892
June 1894
Fate
Sold for scrap Jan. 14, 1914.


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