HMS Revenge (06)
| period of service |
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|---|---|
| Builder: |
Vickers , Barrow-in-Furness |
| Keel laying : | December 22, 1913 |
| Launch: | May 1915 |
| Commissioning: | March 1916 |
| Fate: | Scrapped in 1948 |
| Technical specifications | |
| Displacement : | Normal: 28,000 ts Maximum: 31,200 ts |
| Length: |
Water line : 189 m over all: 190.3 m |
| Width: | before conversion: 27 m after conversion: 31.2 m |
| Draft: | 8.5 m |
| Drive: | 4 sets of steam turbines with Parson gears 18 Yarrow steam boilers 40,000 shp (30 MW) |
| Speed: | originally 23 kn (approx. 43 km / h) |
| Range: | 4,000 nm (7,400 km) |
| Crew: | 997 |
| Bunker amount: | 1,040 - 1,146 t |
| Armament: |
Guns: 8 × 381 mm (15 in ) 14 × 152 mm (6 in) |
| Armor: | Belt: 330 mm Deck: 64 mm Towers: 330 mm Command post: 254 mm Citadel: 152 mm |
HMS Revenge was a battleship of the British Royal Navy and the lead ship of the Revenge-class . She was the ninth ship in the Royal Navy with that name.
First World War
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The Revenge was put into service shortly before the Skagerrakschlacht , in which it participated in the 1st Battle Squadron in second place behind the squadron flagship Marlborough . After his flagship was hit by a torpedo , Vice Admiral Sir Cecil Burney and his staff were transferred to the Revenge . The Revenge stood for an hour and a half and recorded no casualties or combat damage. Claude Stanley Choules , the last veteran of the First World War, who died on May 5, 2011 , also served on the Revenge .
Between the wars
In January 1920 she was assigned to the Mediterranean with her association because of the crises there. There she supported the Greeks in the Greco-Turkish War and stayed in the Black Sea until July because they were concerned about the Russian Civil War . She then returned to the British Atlantic Fleet .
In 1922 she was sent back to the Mediterranean together with her sister ships Ramillies , Resolution and Royal Sovereign due to further crises in connection with the forced abdication of the Greek King Constantine . The Revenge was stationed in Istanbul and the Dardanelles during this time . She returned to the Atlantic Fleet the following year.
After an overhaul at the Devonport shipyard in 1928, she returned to the British Mediterranean Fleet in March 1929. On July 16, 1935, she took part in the fleet parade for the 25th anniversary of King George V's throne in Spithead . Later that year she was stationed in Alexandria because of the possible threats posed by the Second Italo-Abyssinian War .
It was overhauled again in 1936 and reassigned to the Home Fleet in 1937 .
Second World War
Although the Revenge was now a fairly slow ship, she was often used for escorts in the North Atlantic along with her sister ship Resolution during World War II . Among other things, she was part of the group that brought gold bars to Canada.
On July 3, 1940, the Revenge took the crews of the French battleship Paris and the French submarines Thames and Surcouf on board, which were seized along with other French ships after the fall of France.
The Revenge carried out other important missions in convoid service . So she escorted the troop transports that the Australian Division brought back to their country in February 1943 so that they could fight the Japanese on the theater of war in the Pacific , who threatened Australia after several successes.
Because of her poor condition, she was withdrawn from active duty in October this year and placed in the reserve. It was used to train stokers and was only restored to a better condition by order of Winston Churchill , who drove on it to the Tehran conference .
In May 1944, the main armament was removed in order to have replacement cannons for the battleships Ramillies and Warspite .
Another fate
It was sold for scrapping in 1948. Parts of the mechanics of their towers were later used for the Mark I radio telescope at the Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire, which was built from 1955 to 1957.
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Footnotes
- ↑ Although the class is often referred to as the Royal Sovereign class , official documents from 1914–1918 show the name Revenge class .