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margin:0;"> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;"><a href="/wiki/N3-class_battleship" title="N3-class battleship">N3 class</a> (planned)</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Nelson-class_battleship" title="Nelson-class battleship"><i>Nelson</i> class</a> (actual)</li> </ul></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Built</td><td>1913–1917</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">In commission</td><td>1916–1949</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Planned</td><td>8</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Completed</td><td>5</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Cancelled</td><td>3</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Lost</td><td>1</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Retired</td><td>4</td></tr> <tr><th colspan="2" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">General characteristics (as built)</th></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Type</td><td><a href="/wiki/Dreadnought_battleship" class="mw-redirect" title="Dreadnought battleship">Dreadnought battleship</a></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Displacement</td><td><ul style="list-style:none; margin:0;"> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">29,590 <a href="/wiki/Long_ton" title="Long ton">long tons</a> (30,060 <a href="/wiki/Tonne" title="Tonne">t</a>)</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">32,820 long tons (33,350 t) (<a href="/wiki/Deep_load" class="mw-redirect" title="Deep load">Deep load</a>)</li> </ul></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Length</td><td>620 ft 7 in (189.2 m)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Beam</td><td>88 ft 6 in (27 m)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Draught</td><td>33 ft 7 in (10.2 m) (<a href="/wiki/Deep_load" class="mw-redirect" title="Deep load">Deep load</a>)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Installed power</td><td><ul style="list-style:none; margin:0;"> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">18 <a href="/wiki/Babcock_%26_Wilcox_boiler" class="mw-redirect" title="Babcock & Wilcox boiler">Babcock & Wilcox boilers</a></li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">40,000 <a href="/wiki/Horsepower#Shaft_horsepower" title="Horsepower">shp</a> (30,000 <a href="/wiki/Kilowatt" class="mw-redirect" title="Kilowatt">kW</a>)</li> </ul></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Propulsion</td><td>4 shafts; 2 <a href="/wiki/Steam_turbine" title="Steam turbine">steam turbine</a> sets</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Speed</td><td>21 <a href="/wiki/Knot_(unit)" title="Knot (unit)">knots</a> (39 km/h; 24 mph)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Range</td><td>7,000 <a href="/wiki/Nautical_mile" title="Nautical mile">nmi</a> (13,000 km; 8,100 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Crew</td><td>940 (1917)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Armament</td><td><ul style="list-style:none; margin:0;"> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">4 × twin <a href="/wiki/BL_15_inch_Mk_I_naval_gun" class="mw-redirect" title="BL 15 inch Mk I naval gun">15 in (381 mm)</a> guns</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">14 × single <a href="/wiki/BL_6_inch_Mk_XII_naval_gun" class="mw-redirect" title="BL 6 inch Mk XII naval gun">6 in (152 mm)</a> guns</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">2 × single <a href="/wiki/QF_3_inch_20_cwt" class="mw-redirect" title="QF 3 inch 20 cwt">3 in (76 mm)</a> <a href="/wiki/AA_gun" class="mw-redirect" title="AA gun">AA guns</a></li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">4 × single 47 mm (1.9 in) 3-pdr guns</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">4 × <a href="/wiki/British_21_inch_torpedo" class="mw-redirect" title="British 21 inch torpedo">21 in (533 mm)</a> <a href="/wiki/Torpedo_tube" title="Torpedo tube">torpedo tubes</a></li> </ul></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Armour</td><td><ul style="list-style:none; margin:0;"> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Belt_armor" title="Belt armor">Waterline belt</a>: 13 in (330 mm)</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Deck_(ship)" title="Deck (ship)">Deck</a>: 1–4 in (25–102 mm)</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Barbette" title="Barbette">Barbettes</a>: 6–10 in (152–254 mm)</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Gun_turret" title="Gun turret">Gun turrets</a>: 11–13 in (279–330 mm)</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Conning_tower" title="Conning tower">Conning tower</a>: 3–11 in (76–279 mm)</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Bulkhead_(partition)" title="Bulkhead (partition)">Bulkheads</a>: 4 to 6 in (102 to 152 mm)</li> </ul></td></tr> </tbody></table> <p>The <b><i>Revenge</i> class</b>, sometimes referred to as the <b><i>Royal Sovereign</i> class</b> or the <b>R class</b>, consisted of five <a href="/wiki/Dreadnought_battleship" class="mw-redirect" title="Dreadnought battleship">Dreadnought battleships</a> built for the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Navy" title="Royal Navy">Royal Navy</a> in the 1910s. All of the ships were completed to see service during the <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">First World War</a>. There were originally to have been eight of the class, but two were later redesigned, becoming the <a href="/wiki/Renown-class_battlecruiser" title="Renown-class battlecruiser"><i>Renown</i>-class</a> <a href="/wiki/Battlecruiser" title="Battlecruiser">battlecruisers</a>, while the other, which was to have been named HMS <i>Resistance</i>, was cancelled outright. The design was based on that of the preceding <a href="/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth-class_battleship" title="Queen Elizabeth-class battleship"><i>Queen Elizabeth</i> class</a>, but with reductions in size and speed to make them more economical to build. </p><p>Two of the ships, <a href="/wiki/HMS_Revenge_(06)" title="HMS Revenge (06)"><i>Revenge</i></a> and <a href="/wiki/HMS_Royal_Oak_(08)" title="HMS Royal Oak (08)"><i>Royal Oak</i></a>, were completed in time to see action at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Jutland" title="Battle of Jutland">Battle of Jutland</a> during the <a href="/wiki/First_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="First World War">First World War</a>, where they engaged German battlecruisers. The other three ships were completed after the battle, by which time the British and German fleets had adopted more cautious strategies, and as a result, the class saw no further substantial action. During the early 1920s, the ships were involved in the <a href="/wiki/Greco-Turkish_War_(1919%E2%80%931922)" title="Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922)">Greco-Turkish War</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Civil_War" title="Russian Civil War">Russian Civil War</a> as part of the <a href="/wiki/Mediterranean_Fleet" title="Mediterranean Fleet">Mediterranean Fleet</a>. They typically operated as a unit during the <a href="/wiki/Interwar_period" title="Interwar period">interwar period</a>, including stints in the <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Fleet_(United_Kingdom)" title="Atlantic Fleet (United Kingdom)">Atlantic Fleet</a>. All five members of the class were modernised in the 1930s, particularly to strengthen their anti-aircraft defences and <a href="/wiki/Ship_gun_fire-control_system" title="Ship gun fire-control system">fire-control equipment</a>. </p><p>The ships saw extensive action during the <a href="/wiki/Second_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Second World War">Second World War</a>, though they were no longer front-line units by this time and thus were frequently relegated to secondary duties such as convoy escort and <a href="/wiki/Naval_gunfire_support" title="Naval gunfire support">naval gunfire support</a>. <i>Royal Oak</i> was sunk at her moorings in <a href="/wiki/Scapa_Flow" title="Scapa Flow">Scapa Flow</a> in October 1939 by a German <a href="/wiki/U-boat" title="U-boat">U-boat</a>, and two other ships of the class were torpedoed during the war; <a href="/wiki/HMS_Resolution_(09)" title="HMS Resolution (09)"><i>Resolution</i></a>, hit by a <a href="/wiki/Vichy_French" class="mw-redirect" title="Vichy French">Vichy French</a> submarine off <a href="/wiki/Dakar" title="Dakar">Dakar</a> in 1940 and <a href="/wiki/HMS_Ramillies_(07)" title="HMS Ramillies (07)"><i>Ramillies</i></a>, attacked by a Japanese submarine in Madagascar in 1943; both survived. <a href="/wiki/HMS_Royal_Sovereign_(05)" title="HMS Royal Sovereign (05)"><i>Royal Sovereign</i></a> ended the war in service with the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Navy" title="Soviet Navy">Soviet Navy</a> as <i>Arkhangelsk</i>, but she was returned in 1949, by which time her three surviving <a href="/wiki/Sister_ship" title="Sister ship">sister ships</a> had been <a href="/wiki/Ship_breaking" title="Ship breaking">broken up</a> for <a href="/wiki/Scrap" title="Scrap">scrap</a>. She, too, was dismantled that year. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Design_and_description">Design and description</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Revenge-class_battleship&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Design and description"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Queen_Elizabeth_class_diagrams_Brasseys_1923.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Diagram showing armor and armament layout" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Queen_Elizabeth_class_diagrams_Brasseys_1923.jpg/220px-Queen_Elizabeth_class_diagrams_Brasseys_1923.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="123" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Queen_Elizabeth_class_diagrams_Brasseys_1923.jpg/330px-Queen_Elizabeth_class_diagrams_Brasseys_1923.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Queen_Elizabeth_class_diagrams_Brasseys_1923.jpg/440px-Queen_Elizabeth_class_diagrams_Brasseys_1923.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="669" /></a><figcaption>Diagram of the <a href="/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth-class_battleship" title="Queen Elizabeth-class battleship"><i>Queen Elizabeth</i> class</a>, which provided the basis for the <i>Revenge</i> design</figcaption></figure> <p>In the early 1900s, Germany challenged Britain in a <a href="/wiki/Anglo-German_naval_arms_race" title="Anglo-German naval arms race">naval arms race</a> under the direction of Admiral <a href="/wiki/Alfred_von_Tirpitz" title="Alfred von Tirpitz">Alfred von Tirpitz</a> that was exacerbated by the <a href="/wiki/Dreadnought" title="Dreadnought">dreadnought</a> revolution. The Royal Navy embarked on a construction programme to out-build the Germans to maintain its dominance of the seas. Beginning with the launch of <a href="/wiki/HMS_Dreadnought_(1906)" title="HMS Dreadnought (1906)"><i>Dreadnought</i></a>, the British had built or <a href="/wiki/Keel_laying" title="Keel laying">laid down</a> twenty-seven all-big-gun battleships to the Germans' seventeen built or building by 1913; to cement their lead, the British ordered another group of battleships for the 1913 Estimates.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPreston18–34,_134–136,_145–147_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPreston18–34,_134–136,_145–147-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <i>Revenge</i>-class ships (sometimes referred to as the "<i>Royal Sovereign</i> class"<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERaven_&_Roberts31_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERaven_&_Roberts31-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or the "R class"<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmith_2008451_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESmith_2008451-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) were designed as slightly smaller, slower, and more heavily protected versions of the preceding <a href="/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth-class_battleship" title="Queen Elizabeth-class battleship"><i>Queen Elizabeth</i>-class</a> battleships. The design staff, led by <a href="/wiki/Eustace_Tennyson_d%27Eyncourt" title="Eustace Tennyson d'Eyncourt">Eustace Tennyson d'Eyncourt</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Director_of_Naval_Construction" title="Director of Naval Construction">Director of Naval Construction</a>, had been charged by the <a href="/wiki/Board_of_Admiralty" title="Board of Admiralty">Board of Admiralty</a> with developing a version of the earlier <a href="/wiki/Iron_Duke-class_battleship" title="Iron Duke-class battleship"><i>Iron Duke</i> class</a> armed with the same battery of 15-inch (380 mm) guns used in the <i>Queen Elizabeth</i>s, albeit with the same number as the <i>Iron Duke</i>s—ten rather than the eight of the <i>Queen Elizabeth</i> design. As an economy measure they were intended to revert to the previous practice of using both <a href="/wiki/Fuel_oil" title="Fuel oil">fuel oil</a> and coal, but <a href="/wiki/First_Sea_Lord" title="First Sea Lord">First Sea Lord</a> <a href="/wiki/John_Fisher,_1st_Baron_Fisher" title="John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher">Jackie Fisher</a> rescinded the decision for coal in October 1914. Still under construction, the ships were redesigned to employ oil-fired <a href="/wiki/Boiler" title="Boiler">boilers</a> that increased the power of the engines by 9,000 <a href="/wiki/Horsepower#Shaft_horsepower" title="Horsepower">shaft horsepower</a> (6,700 kW) over the original specification.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b300–302,_309_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b300–302,_309-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The initial design completed by d'Eyncourt's team mounted only eight 15 in guns, despite the request from the Board, since he could not fit the fifth twin-<a href="/wiki/Gun_turret" title="Gun turret">gun turret</a> in the specified <a href="/wiki/Displacement_(ship)" title="Displacement (ship)">displacement</a> limit. The Board suggested triple turrets to solve the weight problem, but d'Eyncourt pointed out that no suitable design existed, which would significantly delay construction. He was also opposed to the idea since a single hit on a turret would disable more guns. As a result, the Board approved d'Eyncourt's proposal on 31 March 1913.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b300_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b300-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="General_characteristics_and_propulsion">General characteristics and propulsion</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Revenge-class_battleship&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: General characteristics and propulsion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:HMS_Revenge_(1916)_profile_drawing.png" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="coloured diagram showing the ship's paint scheme" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/HMS_Revenge_%281916%29_profile_drawing.png/220px-HMS_Revenge_%281916%29_profile_drawing.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="112" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/HMS_Revenge_%281916%29_profile_drawing.png/330px-HMS_Revenge_%281916%29_profile_drawing.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/HMS_Revenge_%281916%29_profile_drawing.png/440px-HMS_Revenge_%281916%29_profile_drawing.png 2x" data-file-width="1595" data-file-height="813" /></a><figcaption>3-view drawing of HMS <i>Revenge</i> as she was in 1916</figcaption></figure> <p>The ships of the <i>Revenge</i> class were 580 feet 3 inches (176.9 m) <a href="/wiki/Length_between_perpendiculars" title="Length between perpendiculars">long between perpendiculars</a>, 614 ft 6 in (187.3 m) <a href="/wiki/Length_at_the_waterline" class="mw-redirect" title="Length at the waterline">long at the waterline</a>, and had a <a href="/wiki/Length_overall" title="Length overall">length overall</a> of 620 ft 7 in (189.2 m). They had a <a href="/wiki/Beam_(nautical)" title="Beam (nautical)">beam</a> of 88 feet 6 inches (27 m) (which was increased to approximately 101 ft 6 in (30.9 m) with the addition of <a href="/wiki/Anti-torpedo_bulge" title="Anti-torpedo bulge">anti-torpedo bulges</a>) and a deep <a href="/wiki/Draft_(hull)" title="Draft (hull)">draught</a> of 30 feet 9 inches (9.4 m) fully loaded without a bulge<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012a156_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012a156-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b304–305_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b304–305-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and 29 feet 8 inches (9 m) with a bulge. They had a normal <a href="/wiki/Displacement_(ship)" title="Displacement (ship)">displacement</a> without a bulge of approximately 28,000 <a href="/wiki/Long_ton" title="Long ton">long tons</a> (28,449 <a href="/wiki/Tonne" title="Tonne">t</a>) and 31,200 long tons (31,700 t) at <a href="/wiki/Deep_load" class="mw-redirect" title="Deep load">deep load</a>. Equivalent figures for those ships fitted with a bulge were about 30,000 long tons (30,481 t) or 32,800 long tons (33,326 t), depending on the type of bulge fitted.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERaven_&_Roberts36_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERaven_&_Roberts36-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The ships' <a href="/wiki/Metacentric_height" title="Metacentric height">metacentric height</a> was 3.4 feet (1.0 m) at deep load without a bulge fitted<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012a156_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012a156-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b304–305_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b304–305-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and 5.1 feet (1.6 m) with a bulge.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERaven_&_Roberts36_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERaven_&_Roberts36-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Their crew numbered between 909 and 940 officers and <a href="/wiki/Naval_rating" title="Naval rating">ratings</a> in 1917; by the early 1920s, the number of crew had grown to 1,012 to 1,240. Each battleship carried a number of smaller boats, including a variety of steam and sail <a href="/wiki/Pinnace_(ship%27s_boat)" title="Pinnace (ship's boat)">pinnaces</a>, steam <a href="/wiki/Launch_(boat)" title="Launch (boat)">launches</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cutter_(boat)" title="Cutter (boat)">cutters</a>, <a href="/wiki/Whaler" title="Whaler">whalers</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dinghy" title="Dinghy">dinghies</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Raft" title="Raft">rafts</a>. These were handled by five boat <a href="/wiki/Derrick" title="Derrick">derricks</a>. The ships were fitted with eight <a href="/wiki/Searchlight" title="Searchlight">searchlights</a>, four on the <a href="/wiki/Bridge_(nautical)" title="Bridge (nautical)">bridge</a>, two at the base of the <a href="/wiki/Funnel_(ship)" title="Funnel (ship)">funnel</a> and two on the after <a href="/wiki/Superstructure" title="Superstructure">superstructure</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b305_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b305-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>They were powered by two sets of <a href="/wiki/Parsons_Marine_Steam_Turbine_Company" title="Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company">Parsons</a> <a href="/wiki/Steam_turbine" title="Steam turbine">steam turbines</a>, each driving two shafts with 3-bladed <a href="/wiki/Propeller" title="Propeller">screws</a>, using steam provided by eighteen <a href="/wiki/Babcock_%26_Wilcox_boiler" class="mw-redirect" title="Babcock & Wilcox boiler">Babcock & Wilcox boilers</a> at a working pressure of 235 <a href="/wiki/Pound_per_square_inch" title="Pound per square inch">psi</a> (1,620 <a href="/wiki/Pascal_(unit)" title="Pascal (unit)">kPa</a>; 17 <a href="/wiki/Kilogram-force" title="Kilogram-force">kgf/cm<sup>2</sup></a>) in all but <i>Resolution</i> and <i>Royal Oak</i>, which received boilers manufactured by <a href="/wiki/Yarrow_boiler" title="Yarrow boiler">Yarrow</a>. The boilers were ducted into a single <a href="/wiki/Funnel_(ship)" title="Funnel (ship)">funnel</a>. The turbines were divided into three watertight compartments arranged side by side; the low-pressure turbines driving the inner pair of shafts were in the centre engine room together, while the high-pressure outboard turbines were in the rooms on either side.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b305,_308–309_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b305,_308–309-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The turbines were rated at 40,000 <a href="/wiki/Horsepower#Shaft_horsepower" title="Horsepower">shaft horsepower</a> (30,000 <a href="/wiki/Kilowatt" class="mw-redirect" title="Kilowatt">kW</a>) and intended to give the ships a maximum speed of 23 <a href="/wiki/Knot_(unit)" title="Knot (unit)">knots</a> (43 km/h; 26 mph), although <i>Revenge</i> only reached a top speed of 21.9 knots (40.6 km/h; 25.2 mph) from 41,938 shp (31,273 kW) during her <a href="/wiki/Sea_trial" title="Sea trial">sea trials</a> on 24 March 1916. The other members of the class had similar performance, with only <i>Royal Oak</i> making 22 kn (41 km/h; 25 mph) on trials.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b305,_309_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b305,_309-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The bulged <i>Ramillies</i> reached 21.4 knots (39.6 km/h; 24.6 mph) from 42,383 shp (31,605 kW) during her sea trials on 20 September 1917, less than half a knot slower than the unbulged ships.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERaven_&_Roberts37_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERaven_&_Roberts37-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Fuel storage amounted to 900 long tons (910 t) of fuel oil and 3,400 long tons (3,500 t) of coal as designed, but on conversion to only oil-fired boilers, the storage capacity was 3,400 long tons of oil. This enabled the ships to steam for 7,000 <a href="/wiki/Nautical_mile" title="Nautical mile">nautical miles</a> (13,000 km; 8,100 mi) at a cruising speed of 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph), which fell to 2,700 nautical miles (5,000 km; 3,100 mi) at full speed.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b305,_309_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b305,_309-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Armament_and_fire_control">Armament and fire control</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Revenge-class_battleship&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Armament and fire control"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Royal_Navy_during_the_First_World_War_Q17919.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Two metal structures, each with two large gun barrels protruding from their fronts" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/The_Royal_Navy_during_the_First_World_War_Q17919.jpg/220px-The_Royal_Navy_during_the_First_World_War_Q17919.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="172" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/The_Royal_Navy_during_the_First_World_War_Q17919.jpg/330px-The_Royal_Navy_during_the_First_World_War_Q17919.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/The_Royal_Navy_during_the_First_World_War_Q17919.jpg/440px-The_Royal_Navy_during_the_First_World_War_Q17919.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="627" /></a><figcaption><i>Royal Oak</i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>s aft pair of turrets</figcaption></figure> <p>The <i>Revenge</i> class was equipped with eight <a href="/wiki/List_of_British_ordnance_terms#BL" class="mw-redirect" title="List of British ordnance terms">breech-loading</a> (BL) <a href="/wiki/BL_15_inch_Mk_I_naval_gun" class="mw-redirect" title="BL 15 inch Mk I naval gun">15-inch (381 mm) Mk I</a> guns in four twin-gun turrets, in two <a href="/wiki/Superfire" class="mw-redirect" title="Superfire">superfiring pairs</a> fore and aft of the superstructure, designated 'A', 'B', 'X', and 'Y' from front to rear. The guns were initially supplied with eighty shells per gun, but the <a href="/wiki/Magazine_(artillery)" title="Magazine (artillery)">magazines</a> were later modified to allow for up to one hundred shells per gun.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b302–303_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b302–303-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The ships carried the guns in Mk I turrets that allowed for <a href="/wiki/Elevation_(ballistics)" title="Elevation (ballistics)">elevation</a> to 20 degrees and depression to -5 degrees. The guns could be loaded at any angle, but the crews typically returned to +5 degrees, since the guns could be cleared faster that way. They fired 1,929-pound (875 kg) projectiles at a <a href="/wiki/Muzzle_velocity" title="Muzzle velocity">muzzle velocity</a> of 2,450 ft/s (750 m/s) to a range of 24,423 yards (22,332 m). Their designed <a href="/wiki/Rate_of_fire" title="Rate of fire">rate of fire</a> was one shot every 36 seconds.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFriedman_201143–47_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFriedman_201143–47-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The ships' <a href="/wiki/Secondary_armament" title="Secondary armament">secondary battery</a> consisted of fourteen <a href="/wiki/BL_6_inch_Mk_XII_naval_gun" class="mw-redirect" title="BL 6 inch Mk XII naval gun">BL 6-inch (152 mm) Mk XII</a> guns, twelve of which were mounted in <a href="/wiki/Casemate#Single_casemates_(1889_onwards)" title="Casemate">casemates</a> along the <a href="/wiki/Broadside_(naval)" title="Broadside (naval)">broadside</a> of the vessel <a href="/wiki/Amidships" class="mw-redirect" title="Amidships">amidships</a>; the remaining pair were mounted on the shelter deck and were protected by <a href="/wiki/Gun_shield" title="Gun shield">gun shields</a>. The casemate guns were moved further aft from the bow to reduce the tendency of the <a href="/wiki/Gun_port" title="Gun port">gun ports</a> to ship water in heavy seas, a problem encountered with both the <i>Iron Duke</i> and <i>Queen Elizabeth</i> classes. The guns had a muzzle velocity of 2,825 ft/s (861 m/s) from their 100-pound (45 kg) projectiles. At their maximum elevation of 15 degrees, they had a range of 13,600 yd (12,400 m).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b302_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b302-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFriedman_201184_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFriedman_201184-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The ships also mounted four <a href="/wiki/QF_3-pounder_Hotchkiss" title="QF 3-pounder Hotchkiss">3-pounder</a> (47-millimetre (1.9 in)) guns. Their <a href="/wiki/Anti-aircraft_gun" class="mw-redirect" title="Anti-aircraft gun">anti-aircraft</a> (AA) armament consisted of two <a href="/wiki/Quick-firing_gun" title="Quick-firing gun">quick-firing (QF)</a> <a href="/wiki/QF_3_inch_20_cwt" class="mw-redirect" title="QF 3 inch 20 cwt">3-inch (76 mm) 20 cwt Mk I</a><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>Note 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> guns. They were fitted with four submerged 21-inch (533 mm) <a href="/wiki/Torpedo_tube" title="Torpedo tube">torpedo tubes</a>, two on each broadside. Each ship was supplied with a total of twenty-one <a href="/wiki/Torpedo" title="Torpedo">torpedoes</a> of the Mk II, Mk IV, and MK IVHB types.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b304_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b304-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <i>Revenge</i>-class ships were completed with two <a href="/wiki/Fire-control_system#Naval_fire_control" title="Fire-control system">fire-control directors</a> fitted with 15-foot (4.6 m) <a href="/wiki/Rangefinding_telemeter" class="mw-redirect" title="Rangefinding telemeter">rangefinders</a>. One was mounted above the <a href="/wiki/Conning_tower" title="Conning tower">conning tower</a>, protected by an armoured hood, and the other was aloft on the <a href="/wiki/Tripod_mast" title="Tripod mast">tripod mast</a>. Each turret was also fitted with a 15-foot rangefinder. The main armament could be controlled by 'X' turret as well.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The secondary armament was primarily controlled by directors mounted on each side of the compass platform on the foremast once they began to be fitted in March 1917.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERaven_&_Roberts33_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERaven_&_Roberts33-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A torpedo-control director with a 9-foot (2.7 m) rangefinder was mounted at the aft end of the superstructure.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b304_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b304-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The rangefinders in 'B' and 'X' turrets were replaced by 30-foot (9.1 m) models between 1919 and 1922.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERaven_&_Roberts44_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERaven_&_Roberts44-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Flight_deck#Early" title="Flight deck">Flying-off platforms</a> were fitted on all the ships on the roofs of 'B' and 'X' turrets in 1918. Between them the ships carried two fighters and eight <a href="/wiki/Reconnaissance_aircraft" title="Reconnaissance aircraft">reconnaissance aircraft</a>. These platforms were removed as the ships were refitted in the early 1930s. <i>Resolution</i> was briefly fitted with an <a href="/wiki/Aircraft_catapult" title="Aircraft catapult">aircraft catapult</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Quarterdeck" title="Quarterdeck">quarterdeck</a> in early 1930 and <i>Royal Sovereign</i> had one in 1933–1936. All of the ships except <i>Revenge</i> and <i>Royal Sovereign</i> were equipped with a catapult atop 'X' turret in the mid-1930s. <i>Resolution</i> kept hers until late 1942 or early 1943.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERaven_&_Roberts44,_167–168,_170,_173,_177,_182,_189_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERaven_&_Roberts44,_167–168,_170,_173,_177,_182,_189-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Protection">Protection</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Revenge-class_battleship&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Protection"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The ships' <a href="/wiki/Belt_armor" title="Belt armor">waterline belt</a> consisted of <a href="/wiki/Krupp_cemented_armour" class="mw-redirect" title="Krupp cemented armour">Krupp cemented armour</a> (KC) that was 13 inches (330 mm) thick between 'A' and 'Y' <a href="/wiki/Barbette" title="Barbette">barbettes</a> and thinned to 4 to 6 inches (102 to 152 mm) towards the ships' ends, but did not reach either the bow or the stern. Above this was a <a href="/wiki/Strake" title="Strake">strake</a> of armour 6 inches thick that extended between 'A' and 'X' barbettes. Transverse <a href="/wiki/Bulkhead_(partition)" title="Bulkhead (partition)">bulkheads</a> 4 to 6 inches thick ran at an angle from the ends of the thickest part of the waterline belt to 'A' and 'Y' barbettes. The gun turrets were protected by 11 to 13 inches (279 to 330 mm) of KC armour, except for the turret roofs which were 4.75–5 inches (121–127 mm) thick. The barbettes ranged in thickness from 6–10 inches (152–254 mm) above the upper deck, but were only 4 to 6 inches thick below it. The <i>Revenge</i>-class ships had multiple armoured decks that ranged from 1 to 4 inches (25 to 102 mm) in thickness. The main conning tower had 11 inches of armour on the sides with a 3-inch roof. The torpedo director in the rear superstructure had 6 inches of armour protecting it. After the Battle of Jutland, 1 inch of high-tensile steel was added to the main deck over the <a href="/wiki/Magazine_(artillery)" title="Magazine (artillery)">magazines</a> and additional anti-flash equipment was added in the magazines.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b303–308_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b303–308-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERaven_&_Roberts36,_44_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERaven_&_Roberts36,_44-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Anti-torpedo_Bulges">Anti-torpedo Bulges</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Revenge-class_battleship&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Anti-torpedo Bulges"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>Ramillies</i> was the least advanced in construction when the Director of Naval Construction decided to fit bulges to the ship to improve her survivability against <a href="/wiki/Naval_mine" title="Naval mine">naval mines</a> and torpedoes in March 1915, making her the first <a href="/wiki/Capital_ship" title="Capital ship">capital ship</a> in the world to be bulged.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERaven_&_Roberts35,_139_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERaven_&_Roberts35,_139-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Testing had revealed that a bulge filled with hollow tubes substantially reduced the effectiveness of a torpedo <a href="/wiki/Warhead" title="Warhead">warhead</a>. The bulge scabbed onto <i>Ramillies</i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>s hull was 220 feet (67.1 m) long and 7 feet 3 inches (2.21 m) high; it was divided into two <a href="/wiki/Ship_floodability" title="Ship floodability">watertight compartments</a> with the upper and lower inner compartments filled with 9-inch (22.9 cm) steel "crush" tubes with their ends plugged by wooden <a href="/wiki/Bung" class="mw-redirect" title="Bung">bungs</a>. They were intended to absorb the force of an underwater detonation and prevent splinters and debris from penetrating the inner <a href="/wiki/Torpedo_bulkhead" title="Torpedo bulkhead">torpedo bulkhead</a>. The watertight outer compartment was also divided longitudinally, but it was empty to allow the force of the detonation to disperse. The form of the bulge increased the ship's beam to 102 feet 6 inches (31.2 m), decreased her draught by about 1 foot (30.5 cm) and increased her displacement by 2,500 long tons (2,500 t).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERaven_&_Roberts35_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERaven_&_Roberts35-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b308_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b308-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:HMS_Revenge_WWII_IWM_CH_823.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="low-altitude, front-oblique aerial photo of a large ship leaving a prominent wake" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/HMS_Revenge_WWII_IWM_CH_823.jpg/220px-HMS_Revenge_WWII_IWM_CH_823.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/HMS_Revenge_WWII_IWM_CH_823.jpg/330px-HMS_Revenge_WWII_IWM_CH_823.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/HMS_Revenge_WWII_IWM_CH_823.jpg/440px-HMS_Revenge_WWII_IWM_CH_823.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="544" /></a><figcaption><i>Revenge</i> at sea in 1940</figcaption></figure> <p><i>Resolution</i> and <i>Revenge</i> were fitted with a different form of bulge in 1917–1918 that was intended to improve their stability as well as protect them against underwater threats. This discarded the crushing tubes to save weight and was only a single watertight compartment deep. It was divided into upper and lower compartments, of which the upper was filled with a mixture of concrete and scrap wood while the lower was empty. The bulge increased their beam to about 101 feet 5 inches (30.9 m), reduced their draught by 16 inches (41 cm) and increased their displacement by 1,526 long tons (1,550 t).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERaven_&_Roberts35_26-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERaven_&_Roberts35-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b308_27-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b308-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Yet another form of bulge was installed aboard <i>Royal Sovereign</i> during her 1920–1924 refit. Based on the preceding form, the upper compartment was enlarged so that it extended above the waterline and crush tubes replaced the concrete and wood mixture. This weighed 1,474 long tons (1,498 t). Reports had been received from the bulged ships of excessive <a href="/wiki/Ship_motions" title="Ship motions">rolling</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Admiralty_Experiment_Works" title="Admiralty Experiment Works">Admiralty Experiment Works</a> conducted experiments to determine the best form of a bulge to eliminate the problem in conjunction with improved <a href="/wiki/Bilge_keel" title="Bilge keel">bilge keels</a>. <i>Royal Oak</i> was the only ship of the class lacking a bulge by this time. When fitted during her 1922–1924 refit, her bulges were mostly empty, although their lower compartments were partially filled with water. They also extended much further up the side of the ship. This form of the bulge increased her metacentric height to 5.5 feet (1.7 m). <i>Ramillies</i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>s bulges were modified during her 1926–1927 to a form much like those of <i>Royal Oak</i>; all of her crush tubes were removed, except those abreast of the magazines. <i>Resolution</i> had the concrete and wood mixture removed from her bulge and the lower compartment partially filled with water during her 1929–1931 refit; the same was done for <i>Revenge</i> during her 1931 refit.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERaven_&_Roberts36,_139,_167–168_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERaven_&_Roberts36,_139,_167–168-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b308_27-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b308-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Ships_in_class">Ships in class</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Revenge-class_battleship&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Ships in class"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption>Construction data </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col">Name </th> <th scope="col"><a href="/wiki/Pennant_number" title="Pennant number">Pennant</a> </th> <th scope="col">Builder<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPreston35_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPreston35-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <th scope="col"><a href="/wiki/Laid_down" class="mw-redirect" title="Laid down">Laid down</a><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPreston35_29-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPreston35-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <th scope="col"><a href="/wiki/Ceremonial_ship_launching" title="Ceremonial ship launching">Launched</a><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPreston35_29-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPreston35-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <th scope="col"><a href="/wiki/Ship_commissioning" title="Ship commissioning">Commissioned</a><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPreston35_29-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPreston35-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <th scope="col">Fate<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPreston35–36_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPreston35–36-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/HMS_Revenge_(06)" title="HMS Revenge (06)"><i>Revenge</i></a> (<span class="nowrap">ex-<i>Renown</i></span>) </th> <td style="text-align: center;">06 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Vickers" title="Vickers">Vickers</a> </td> <td>22 December 1913 </td> <td>29 May 1915 </td> <td>1 February 1916 </td> <td>Broken up at Inverkeithing, 1948 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/HMS_Resolution_(09)" title="HMS Resolution (09)"><i>Resolution</i></a> </th> <td style="text-align: center;">09 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Palmers_Shipbuilding_and_Iron_Company" title="Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company">Palmers</a> </td> <td>29 November 1913 </td> <td>14 January 1915 </td> <td>30 December 1916 </td> <td>Broken up at Faslane, 1949 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/HMS_Royal_Oak_(08)" title="HMS Royal Oak (08)"><i>Royal Oak</i></a> </th> <td style="text-align: center;">08 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/HMNB_Devonport" title="HMNB Devonport">HM Dockyard, Devonport</a> </td> <td rowspan="2">15 January 1914 </td> <td>17 November 1914 </td> <td>1 May 1916 </td> <td>Sunk at Scapa Flow, October 1939 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/HMS_Royal_Sovereign_(05)" title="HMS Royal Sovereign (05)"><i>Royal Sovereign</i></a> </th> <td style="text-align: center;">05 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/HMNB_Portsmouth" title="HMNB Portsmouth">HM Dockyard, Portsmouth</a> </td> <td>29 April 1915 </td> <td>18 April 1916 </td> <td>Transferred to the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Navy" title="Soviet Navy">Soviet Navy</a> as <i>Arkhangelsk</i> 1944–1949; Broken up at Inverkeithing, 1949 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/HMS_Ramillies_(07)" title="HMS Ramillies (07)"><i>Ramillies</i></a> </th> <td style="text-align: center;">07 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/William_Beardmore_and_Company" title="William Beardmore and Company">W. Beardmore</a> </td> <td>12 November 1913 </td> <td>12 June 1916 </td> <td>1 September 1917 </td> <td>Broken up at Troon, 1949 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><i>Resistance</i> </th> <td rowspan="3" data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">— </td> <td><a href="/wiki/HMNB_Devonport" title="HMNB Devonport">HM Dockyard, Devonport</a> </td> <td rowspan="3" data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">— </td> <td rowspan="3" data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">— </td> <td rowspan="3" data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">— </td> <td>Cancelled, August 1914 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><i>Renown</i> </th> <td rowspan="2" data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">— </td> <td>Redesigned as a <a href="/wiki/Renown-class_battlecruiser" title="Renown-class battlecruiser"><i>Renown</i>-class battlecruiser</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><i>Repulse</i> </th> <td>Redesigned as a <a href="/wiki/Renown-class_battlecruiser" title="Renown-class battlecruiser"><i>Renown</i>-class battlecruiser</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Service_history">Service history</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Revenge-class_battleship&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Service history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="First_World_War">First World War</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Revenge-class_battleship&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: First World War"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Royal_Navy_during_the_First_World_War_Q18142.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Two ships in line astern; the rear one with a prominent cloud of dirty-grey gunsmoke beside it" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/The_Royal_Navy_during_the_First_World_War_Q18142.jpg/220px-The_Royal_Navy_during_the_First_World_War_Q18142.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="173" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/The_Royal_Navy_during_the_First_World_War_Q18142.jpg/330px-The_Royal_Navy_during_the_First_World_War_Q18142.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/The_Royal_Navy_during_the_First_World_War_Q18142.jpg/440px-The_Royal_Navy_during_the_First_World_War_Q18142.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="629" /></a><figcaption><i>Royal Oak</i> firing a <a href="/wiki/Broadside_(naval)" title="Broadside (naval)">broadside</a> during the First World War</figcaption></figure> <p>Three members of the class entered service by May 1916: <i>Revenge</i>, <i>Royal Sovereign</i>, and <i>Royal Oak</i>. <i>Revenge</i> was assigned to the 6th Division of the <a href="/wiki/1st_Battle_Squadron" title="1st Battle Squadron">1st Battle Squadron</a> (BS), <a href="/wiki/Grand_Fleet" title="Grand Fleet">Grand Fleet</a>, while <i>Royal Oak</i> initially served with the 3rd Division, <a href="/wiki/4th_Battle_Squadron" title="4th Battle Squadron">4th Battle Squadron</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJellicoe318_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJellicoe318-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Royal Sovereign</i> was left in port when the fleet sortied to meet the German <a href="/wiki/High_Seas_Fleet" title="High Seas Fleet">High Seas Fleet</a> off the coast of <a href="/wiki/Jutland" title="Jutland">Jutland</a> in late May, as her crew had not fully worked up by that time.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMassie576_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMassie576-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the ensuing <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Jutland" title="Battle of Jutland">Battle of Jutland</a>, both <i>Revenge</i> and <i>Royal Oak</i> engaged German <a href="/wiki/Battlecruiser" title="Battlecruiser">battlecruisers</a>, <i>Revenge</i> damaging two of them—<a href="/wiki/SMS_Derfflinger" title="SMS Derfflinger">SMS <i>Derfflinger</i></a> and <a href="/wiki/SMS_Von_der_Tann" title="SMS Von der Tann">SMS <i>Von der Tann</i></a>—while <i>Royal Oak</i> scored a hit on a third—<a href="/wiki/SMS_Seydlitz" title="SMS Seydlitz">SMS <i>Seydlitz</i></a>. <i>Revenge</i> was forced to turn away to avoid torpedoes that damaged her squadron flagship and caused her squadron to lose contact with the rest of the fleet. <i>Royal Oak</i> remained with the main fleet for the duration of the action. Both ships emerged from the battle unscathed.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECampbell205,_207–209,_211–216,_220–226,_235_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECampbell205,_207–209,_211–216,_220–226,_235-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>All three ships were present for the <a href="/wiki/Action_of_19_August_1916" title="Action of 19 August 1916">action of 19 August 1916</a>, but the British and German fleets both withdrew before engaging each other directly, the British having lost a pair of <a href="/wiki/Light_cruiser" title="Light cruiser">light cruisers</a> to German <a href="/wiki/U-boat" title="U-boat">U-boats</a> and the Germans having had one battleship damaged by a British <a href="/wiki/Submarine" title="Submarine">submarine</a>. By the end of the year, <i>Resolution</i> had joined the fleet, which was by that time reduced to patrolling the northern North Sea as both sides turned to positional warfare since the threat of underwater weapons was too great to risk another major fleet action like Jutland.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFriedman_2014174–176_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFriedman_2014174–176-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Ramillies</i> did not enter service until late 1917, as she had been badly damaged during her <a href="/wiki/Ship_launching" class="mw-redirect" title="Ship launching">launching ceremony</a>, which slowed her completion significantly. But during the lengthy period of repairs and <a href="/wiki/Fitting-out" class="mw-redirect" title="Fitting-out">fitting-out</a>, the navy decided to experiment with the installation of anti-torpedo bulges to improve her ability to resist underwater damage. The bulges proved to be a success, not only increasing her defensive characteristics but also improving stability, while not having a significant negative impact on her speed; as a result, they were later added to the other members of the class during refits after the war.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b308,_317–320_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b308,_317–320-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After German forces began raiding British convoys to Norway in late 1917, the Grand Fleet began sending a battle squadron to cover them, prompting the Germans to attempt to ambush and destroy the isolated squadron in April 1918. German radio silence prevented the British from learning of the operation in advance, as they had at Jutland, though faulty German intelligence did not provide the correct date of the convoy. By the time the British realized the Germans were at sea, the High Seas Fleet had withdrawn far enough south so that the Grand Fleet could not catch them.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMassie747–748_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMassie747–748-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFriedman_2014176–177_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFriedman_2014176–177-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 21 November, following the <a href="/wiki/Armistice_of_11_November_1918" title="Armistice of 11 November 1918">Armistice</a>, the entire Grand Fleet left port to escort the surrendered German fleet into internment at Scapa Flow.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmith_200910_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESmith_200910-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Interwar_period">Interwar period</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Revenge-class_battleship&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Interwar period"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:HMS_Ramillies_LOC_ggbain_29184.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="A warship riding high in a river or harbour with a tugboat adjacent" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/HMS_Ramillies_LOC_ggbain_29184.jpg/220px-HMS_Ramillies_LOC_ggbain_29184.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="133" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/HMS_Ramillies_LOC_ggbain_29184.jpg/330px-HMS_Ramillies_LOC_ggbain_29184.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/HMS_Ramillies_LOC_ggbain_29184.jpg/440px-HMS_Ramillies_LOC_ggbain_29184.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5128" data-file-height="3096" /></a><figcaption><i>Ramillies</i>, probably in the late 1910s or 1920s</figcaption></figure> <p>Through the 1920s and 1930s, the <i>Revenge</i>-class battleships operated as a unit, alternating between the <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Fleet_(United_Kingdom)" title="Atlantic Fleet (United Kingdom)">Atlantic Fleet</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Mediterranean_Fleet" title="Mediterranean Fleet">Mediterranean Fleet</a>, typically trading places with the five <i>Queen Elizabeth</i>-class ships. While serving in the Mediterranean Fleet in the early 1920s, the ships were involved in the <a href="/wiki/Greco-Turkish_War_(1919%E2%80%931922)" title="Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922)">Greco-Turkish War</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Civil_War" title="Russian Civil War">Russian Civil War</a>. Four of the ships (all but <i>Resolution</i>) landed <a href="/wiki/Royal_Marine" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal Marine">Royal Marines</a> to take part in the <a href="/wiki/Occupation_of_Constantinople#Military_occupation_of_Constantinople" class="mw-redirect" title="Occupation of Constantinople">occupation of Constantinople</a> in March 1920. Throughout June and July, the ships participated in the fighting in the collapsing Ottoman Empire; <i>Ramillies</i> and <i>Revenge</i> shelled Turkish troops around <a href="/wiki/Ismid" class="mw-redirect" title="Ismid">Ismid</a> in June and both ships, joined by <i>Royal Sovereign</i>, assisted with Greek landings elsewhere in Turkey. Also in July, <i>Royal Sovereign</i> assisted in the escape of <a href="/wiki/White_%C3%A9migr%C3%A9" title="White émigré">White émigrés</a> fleeing from the Soviet <a href="/wiki/Red_Army" title="Red Army">Red Army</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b320_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b320-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHalpern129–130,_174–175,_198–200,_239,_243,_269–272_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHalpern129–130,_174–175,_198–200,_239,_243,_269–272-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmith_200913_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESmith_200913-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During this period, <i>Resolution</i> primarily operated in the <a href="/wiki/Black_Sea" title="Black Sea">Black Sea</a>, including a period at <a href="/wiki/Batumi" title="Batumi">Batumi</a> in southern Russia.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHalpern198–199,_237,_251,_268_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHalpern198–199,_237,_251,_268-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As the <i>Revenge</i>s were refitted during the 1920s, their <a href="/wiki/Forecastle" title="Forecastle">forecastle</a>-deck six-inch guns were removed and they exchanged their pair of three-inch AA guns for <a href="/wiki/QF_4-inch_naval_gun_Mk_V" title="QF 4-inch naval gun Mk V">QF four-inch (102 mm) Mk V guns</a>, another pair of Mk V guns was added later. Each ship received an anti-aircraft control position with a 12-foot (3.7 m) rangefinder on its foremast, except for <i>Revenge</i> which was fitted with an anti-aircraft <a href="/wiki/Director_(military)" title="Director (military)">director</a> <a href="/wiki/HACS" title="HACS">HACS</a> Mk I system instead. In addition the torpedo-control arrangements were improved and equipped with 12-foot rangefinders.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERaven_&_Roberts137–140,_144–145_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERaven_&_Roberts137–140,_144–145-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After a stint in the Atlantic Fleet in 1921, the ships briefly returned to the Mediterranean in September 1922 during a crisis in <a href="/wiki/Smyrna" title="Smyrna">Smyrna</a> that culminated in the <a href="/wiki/Great_fire_of_Smyrna" class="mw-redirect" title="Great fire of Smyrna">Great fire of Smyrna</a> as the Greco-Turkish War came to its conclusion. The ships returned to the Atlantic Fleet in November.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b316–320_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b316–320-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1924, <i>Resolution</i> accidentally rammed and sank the submarine <a href="/wiki/HMS_L24" title="HMS L24">HMS <i>L24</i></a> during training exercises, killing all aboard.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCartney78–80_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCartney78–80-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Royal Oak</i> was involved in the so-called "Royal Oak Mutiny", between her commander, Captain <a href="/wiki/Kenneth_Dewar" title="Kenneth Dewar">Kenneth Dewar</a> and Commander Henry Daniel, also an officer aboard the ship and Rear-Admiral <a href="/w/index.php?title=Bernard_Collard&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bernard Collard (page does not exist)">Bernard Collard</a>, the commander of the 1st Battle Squadron. The situation was ultimately resolved by Admiral <a href="/wiki/Roger_Keyes,_1st_Baron_Keyes" title="Roger Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes">Sir Roger Keyes</a> removing all three from their posts.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGardiner132–134_46-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGardiner132–134-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The ships remained in the Atlantic until 1927, when they once again transferred to the Mediterranean. The <i>Revenge</i>s and <i>Queen Elizabeth</i>s again traded places in 1935, and the five <i>Revenge</i>-class ships were present for the <a href="/wiki/Coronation_of_King_George_VI_and_Queen_Elizabeth#The_Coronation_Review_of_the_Fleet" class="mw-redirect" title="Coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth">Coronation Review</a> for <a href="/wiki/George_VI" title="George VI">George VI</a> on 20 May 1937.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b312–320_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b312–320-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Throughout this period, the ships underwent repeated refits as anti-aircraft suites were upgraded so that each ship had a pair of HACS Mk III systems in lieu of their anti-aircraft control positions, except for <i>Ramillies</i> which received Mk I directors, and <a href="/wiki/QF_4-inch_naval_gun_Mk_XVI" title="QF 4-inch naval gun Mk XVI">QF four-inch Mk XVI</a> AA guns in twin mounts replaced the single Mk V guns. They also received light AA guns for the first time in the form of two octuple <a href="/wiki/QF_2_pounder_naval_gun#QF_2-pounder_Mark_VIII" class="mw-redirect" title="QF 2 pounder naval gun">two-pounder (40 mm (1.6 in)) Mk VIII "pom-pom"</a> mounts, each with their own directors, and a pair of quadruple <a href="/wiki/Vickers_.50_machine_gun" title="Vickers .50 machine gun">Vickers 0.5 in (12.7 mm)</a> <a href="/w/index.php?title=Anti-aircraft_machine-gun&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Anti-aircraft machine-gun (page does not exist)">AA machinegun</a> mounts. The submerged torpedo tubes were removed as was all of the torpedo-control equipment. <i>Royal Oak</i> was the exception as she had her submerged tubes replaced by above-water tubes. She was also the only ship to receive additional armour when 4-inch plates were added to the deck over her magazines and 2.5-inch (64 mm) over her engine rooms. This armour increased her displacement by 900 long tons (910 t).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERaven_&_Roberts166–168,_170,_172–173,_177,_182_48-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERaven_&_Roberts166–168,_170,_172–173,_177,_182-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <i>Royal Sovereign</i>s did not, however, receive the same extensive reconstructions that some of the <i>Queen Elizabeth</i>-class ships underwent, as the modernization program was interrupted by the outbreak of the <a href="/wiki/Second_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Second World War">Second World War</a> in 1939.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELevy9_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELevy9-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The war also forced the cancellation of a plan to add the same armour to <i>Royal Sovereign</i> and <i>Ramillies</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERaven_&_Roberts185_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERaven_&_Roberts185-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Second_World_War">Second World War</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Revenge-class_battleship&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Second World War"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Royal_Navy_during_the_Second_World_War_A11792.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="A large warship steaming through a calm sea with a large, flat-decked warship following behind" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/The_Royal_Navy_during_the_Second_World_War_A11792.jpg/220px-The_Royal_Navy_during_the_Second_World_War_A11792.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="169" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/The_Royal_Navy_during_the_Second_World_War_A11792.jpg/330px-The_Royal_Navy_during_the_Second_World_War_A11792.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/The_Royal_Navy_during_the_Second_World_War_A11792.jpg/440px-The_Royal_Navy_during_the_Second_World_War_A11792.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2313" data-file-height="1772" /></a><figcaption><i>Resolution</i> and the aircraft carrier <a href="/wiki/HMS_Formidable_(67)" title="HMS Formidable (67)"><i>Formidable</i></a> sailing in the Indian Ocean in 1942–1943</figcaption></figure> <p>With the start of war in August 1939, <i>Revenge</i> and <i>Resolution</i> were assigned to the Channel Force, based in <a href="/wiki/Isle_of_Portland" title="Isle of Portland">Portland</a>, while <i>Royal Sovereign</i> served with the <a href="/wiki/Home_Fleet" title="Home Fleet">Home Fleet</a>. <i>Ramillies</i> was by this time at <a href="/wiki/Alexandria" title="Alexandria">Alexandria</a>, Egypt, where she remained until early October, when she was sent to search for the German <a href="/wiki/Heavy_cruiser" title="Heavy cruiser">heavy cruiser</a> <a href="/wiki/German_cruiser_Admiral_Graf_Spee" title="German cruiser Admiral Graf Spee"><i>Admiral Graf Spee</i></a> in the Indian Ocean. At the same time, <i>Resolution</i> and <i>Revenge</i> were sent to the South Atlantic Command to participate in the hunt for <i>Admiral Graf Spee</i>, but before they arrived they were sent to the North Atlantic Escort Force to cover <a href="/wiki/Convoy" title="Convoy">convoys</a> from Canada to Britain. They carried <a href="/wiki/Gold_bullion" class="mw-redirect" title="Gold bullion">gold bullion</a> to Canada to safeguard it during the war during this period. <i>Royal Oak</i> remained in <a href="/wiki/Scapa_Flow" title="Scapa Flow">Scapa Flow</a> during this period, and on 14 October, the U-boat <a href="/wiki/German_submarine_U-47_(1938)" title="German submarine U-47 (1938)"><i>U-47</i></a> broke through the harbour defences and torpedoed <i>Royal Oak</i>, sinking her at her mooring and killing 833.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b317–320_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b317–320-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELevy22_52-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELevy22-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Ramillies</i> covered troop convoys from Australia to Egypt, including those that carried the <a href="/wiki/2nd_New_Zealand_Expeditionary_Force" class="mw-redirect" title="2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force">2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Second_Australian_Imperial_Force" title="Second Australian Imperial Force">Second Australian Imperial Force</a> in late 1939 and early 1940.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJohnston111–116,_154–155_53-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJohnston111–116,_154–155-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>Resolution</i> took part in the <a href="/wiki/Norwegian_Campaign" class="mw-redirect" title="Norwegian Campaign">Norwegian Campaign</a>, seeing action at the <a href="/wiki/Battles_of_Narvik" title="Battles of Narvik">Battles of Narvik</a> in April 1940.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBrown102,_112–114_54-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBrown102,_112–114-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The following month she was struck by a German bomb, but was not seriously damaged.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERaven_&_Roberts344,_346_55-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERaven_&_Roberts344,_346-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Also in May, <i>Ramillies</i> was assigned to the Mediterranean Fleet in anticipation of Italy's entry into the war. The following month, <i>Resolution</i> had joined <a href="/wiki/Force_H" title="Force H">Force H</a>, and on 3 July she participated in the <a href="/wiki/Destruction_of_the_French_Fleet_at_Mers-el-Kebir" class="mw-redirect" title="Destruction of the French Fleet at Mers-el-Kebir">destruction of the French Fleet at Mers-el-Kebir</a>. Following the Italian declaration of war, <i>Ramillies</i> bombarded Italian positions in <a href="/wiki/Italian_Libya" title="Italian Libya">Italian Libya</a> in mid-August. In September, <i>Resolution</i> steamed south to <a href="/wiki/Dakar" title="Dakar">Dakar</a> with Force H to neutralise French warships there, but during the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Dakar" title="Battle of Dakar">Battle of Dakar</a>, she was torpedoed and badly damaged by a French submarine. In October, <i>Revenge</i> bombarded the port of <a href="/wiki/Cherbourg" title="Cherbourg">Cherbourg</a> in occupied France to destroy German supplies being assembled for the planned invasion of Britain, <a href="/wiki/Operation_Sealion" class="mw-redirect" title="Operation Sealion">Operation Sealion</a>. <i>Ramillies</i> was present with the convoy that was attacked by Italian warships during the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Cape_Spartivento" title="Battle of Cape Spartivento">Battle of Cape Spartivento</a> in late November but she was not involved in the battle.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b317–320_51-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b317–320-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmith_2008105_56-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESmith_2008105-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmith_2008156–158_57-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESmith_2008156–158-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Wartime changes to the battleships were generally limited to augmenting their deck armour, their anti-aircraft suites and the addition of radars. Each ship received a pair of quadruple two-pounder mounts and anywhere from 10 (<i>Revenge</i> and <i>Resolution</i>) to 42 (<i>Royal Sovereign</i>) <a href="/wiki/Oerlikon_20_mm_cannon" title="Oerlikon 20 mm cannon">20-millimetre (0.8 in) Oerlikon guns</a>. Radars were added beginning in 1941, including <a href="/wiki/Early-warning_radar" title="Early-warning radar">early-warning</a>, <a href="/wiki/Search_radar" class="mw-redirect" title="Search radar">search</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fire-control_radar" title="Fire-control radar">fire-control systems</a>. Armour plates 2 inches (51 mm) thick were added over the magazines on <i>Resolution</i>, <i>Royal Sovereign</i> and, partially, in <i>Ramillies</i> in 1941–1942. To increase the accommodation available for the greatly-enlarged wartime crew, the four forward six-inch guns were removed from each ship in 1943, except for <i>Resolution</i>, which only lost two guns.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERaven_&_Roberts166,_185,_189_58-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERaven_&_Roberts166,_185,_189-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Royal_Navy_during_the_Second_World_War_A23814.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="a stationary warship in harbour painted in camouflage" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/The_Royal_Navy_during_the_Second_World_War_A23814.jpg/220px-The_Royal_Navy_during_the_Second_World_War_A23814.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/The_Royal_Navy_during_the_Second_World_War_A23814.jpg/330px-The_Royal_Navy_during_the_Second_World_War_A23814.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/The_Royal_Navy_during_the_Second_World_War_A23814.jpg/440px-The_Royal_Navy_during_the_Second_World_War_A23814.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="599" /></a><figcaption><i>Royal Sovereign</i> as <i>Arkhangelsk</i> in Soviet service</figcaption></figure> <p>In late 1940, <i>Revenge</i> and <i>Royal Sovereign</i> returned to convoy escort duties in the North Atlantic, and <i>Ramillies</i> joined them in January 1941 after completing a refit. During this period, <i>Ramillies</i> discouraged the two German <a href="/wiki/Scharnhorst-class_battleship" title="Scharnhorst-class battleship"><i>Scharnhorst</i>-class battleships</a> from attacking a convoy she escorted. <i>Revenge</i> and <i>Ramillies</i> were at sea during <a href="/wiki/Operation_Rhein%C3%BCbung" title="Operation Rheinübung">Operation Rheinübung</a>, the sortie of the German battleship <a href="/wiki/German_battleship_Bismarck" title="German battleship Bismarck"><i>Bismarck</i></a> in May and they joined the hunt for the ship, but did not locate her.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b317–320_51-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b317–320-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJohnston121_59-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJohnston121-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Resolution</i> spent much of 1941 under repair, first in <a href="/wiki/Freetown" title="Freetown">Freetown</a>, West Africa and then the United States.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmith_2008156–158_57-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESmith_2008156–158-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Late in the year, the Admiralty decided to deploy the four <i>Revenge</i>-class ships to the <a href="/wiki/Far_East" title="Far East">Far East</a> as the <a href="/wiki/3rd_Battle_Squadron" title="3rd Battle Squadron">3rd Battle Squadron</a> in anticipation of war with Japan. They arrived in early 1942, by which time the Japanese had already declared war and inflicted a string of defeats on the Allied countries in the region. The ships fled in advance of the Japanese <a href="/wiki/Indian_Ocean_raid" title="Indian Ocean raid">Indian Ocean raid</a>, as they were no match for the <a href="/wiki/Aircraft_carrier" title="Aircraft carrier">aircraft carriers</a> of the powerful <a href="/wiki/1st_Air_Fleet_(Imperial_Japanese_Navy)" class="mw-redirect" title="1st Air Fleet (Imperial Japanese Navy)">1st Air Fleet</a>. The battleships thereafter primarily operated off the coast of Africa, escorting troop convoys.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b317–320_51-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b317–320-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmith_2008287,_297_60-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESmith_2008287,_297-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJackson293,_295–296,_298_61-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJackson293,_295–296,_298-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Ramillies</i> was present during the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Madagascar" title="Battle of Madagascar">Battle of Madagascar</a> in May, where she was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine. She was repaired first in <a href="/wiki/Durban" title="Durban">Durban</a>, South Africa, and then <a href="/wiki/HMNB_Devonport" title="HMNB Devonport">Devonport</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b318_62-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b318-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In late 1943, <i>Revenge</i> and <i>Resolution</i> were recalled to Britain, owing to their poor condition; the former carried Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Winston_Churchill" title="Winston Churchill">Winston Churchill</a> part of the way to the Tehran Conference in November and December while the latter underwent a refit. Both ships were then decommissioned and assigned to the Portsmouth Command; <i>Resolution</i> joined the training establishment <a href="/wiki/HMS_Imperieuse_(training_establishment)" title="HMS Imperieuse (training establishment)">HMS <i>Imperieuse</i></a>, while <i>Revenge</i> remained out of service. In January 1944, <i>Royal Sovereign</i> and <i>Ramillies</i> were also recalled; <i>Ramillies</i> was refitted and assigned to the fire support force for the <a href="/wiki/Invasion_of_Normandy" class="mw-redirect" title="Invasion of Normandy">invasion of Normandy</a>; <i>Revenge</i> and <i>Resolution</i> were disarmed to provide spare barrels for this work. <i>Royal Sovereign</i> was transferred to the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Navy" title="Soviet Navy">Soviet Navy</a> as <i>Arkhangelsk</i> to reinforce the fleet covering convoys to the Soviet Union in the Arctic Ocean. <i>Revenge</i> and <i>Resolution</i> were sold for <a href="/wiki/Scrap" title="Scrap">scrap</a> in 1948 and were dismantled at <a href="/wiki/Inverkeithing" title="Inverkeithing">Inverkeithing</a> and <a href="/wiki/Faslane" class="mw-redirect" title="Faslane">Faslane</a>, respectively. <i>Ramillies</i> went to the <a href="/wiki/Ship_breaking" title="Ship breaking">breakers' yard</a> at <a href="/wiki/Cairnryan" title="Cairnryan">Cairnryan</a>, also in 1948.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b317–320_51-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b317–320-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmith_2008354–356,_360_63-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESmith_2008354–356,_360-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Royal Sovereign</i> was returned to Britain in 1949 in poor condition as a result of being poorly maintained in Soviet service; her turrets were jammed and much of her equipment was unusable. The last surviving member of the class, she was sold for scrap that year and broken up at Inverkeithing.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b320_39-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b320-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDaniel98–99_64-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDaniel98–99-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Revenge-class_battleship&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Project_Catherine" class="mw-redirect" title="Project Catherine">Project Catherine</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 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id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b300–302,_309-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b300–302,_309_4-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBurt_2012b">Burt 2012b</a>, pp. 300–302, 309.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b300-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b300_5-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBurt_2012b">Burt 2012b</a>, p. 300.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012a156-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012a156_6-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012a156_6-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBurt_2012a">Burt 2012a</a>, p. 156.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b304–305-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b304–305_7-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b304–305_7-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBurt_2012b">Burt 2012b</a>, pp. 304–305.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERaven_&_Roberts36-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERaven_&_Roberts36_8-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERaven_&_Roberts36_8-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRaven_&_Roberts">Raven & Roberts</a>, p. 36.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b305-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b305_9-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBurt_2012b">Burt 2012b</a>, p. 305.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b305,_308–309-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b305,_308–309_10-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBurt_2012b">Burt 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href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFriedman_201143–47_14-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFFriedman_2011">Friedman 2011</a>, pp. 43–47.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b302-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b302_15-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBurt_2012b">Burt 2012b</a>, p. 302.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEFriedman_201184-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFriedman_201184_16-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFFriedman_2011">Friedman 2011</a>, p. 84.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b304-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b304_18-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b304_18-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBurt_2012b">Burt 2012b</a>, p. 304.</span> </li> <li 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id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERaven_&_Roberts44,_167–168,_170,_173,_177,_182,_189-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERaven_&_Roberts44,_167–168,_170,_173,_177,_182,_189_22-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRaven_&_Roberts">Raven & Roberts</a>, pp. 44, 167–168, 170, 173, 177, 182, 189.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b303–308-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b303–308_23-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBurt_2012b">Burt 2012b</a>, pp. 303–308.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERaven_&_Roberts36,_44-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERaven_&_Roberts36,_44_24-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRaven_&_Roberts">Raven & Roberts</a>, pp. 36, 44.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERaven_&_Roberts35,_139-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERaven_&_Roberts35,_139_25-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRaven_&_Roberts">Raven & Roberts</a>, pp. 35, 139.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERaven_&_Roberts35-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERaven_&_Roberts35_26-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERaven_&_Roberts35_26-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRaven_&_Roberts">Raven & Roberts</a>, p. 35.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b308-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b308_27-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b308_27-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b308_27-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBurt_2012b">Burt 2012b</a>, p. 308.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERaven_&_Roberts36,_139,_167–168-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERaven_&_Roberts36,_139,_167–168_28-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRaven_&_Roberts">Raven & Roberts</a>, pp. 36, 139, 167–168.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEPreston35-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPreston35_29-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPreston35_29-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPreston35_29-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPreston35_29-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFPreston">Preston</a>, p. 35.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEPreston35–36-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPreston35–36_30-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFPreston">Preston</a>, pp. 35–36.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEJellicoe318-31"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJellicoe318_31-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFJellicoe">Jellicoe</a>, p. 318.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEMassie576-32"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMassie576_32-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMassie">Massie</a>, p. 576.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECampbell205,_207–209,_211–216,_220–226,_235-33"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECampbell205,_207–209,_211–216,_220–226,_235_33-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFCampbell">Campbell</a>, pp. 205, 207–209, 211–216, 220–226, 235.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEFriedman_2014174–176-34"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFriedman_2014174–176_34-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFFriedman_2014">Friedman 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class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMcCartney">McCartney</a>, pp. 78–80.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEGardiner132–134-46"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGardiner132–134_46-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFGardiner">Gardiner</a>, pp. 132–134.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b312–320-47"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b312–320_47-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBurt_2012b">Burt 2012b</a>, pp. 312–320.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERaven_&_Roberts166–168,_170,_172–173,_177,_182-48"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERaven_&_Roberts166–168,_170,_172–173,_177,_182_48-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRaven_&_Roberts">Raven & Roberts</a>, pp. 166–168, 170, 172–173, 177, 182.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELevy9-49"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELevy9_49-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLevy">Levy</a>, p. 9.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERaven_&_Roberts185-50"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERaven_&_Roberts185_50-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRaven_&_Roberts">Raven & Roberts</a>, p. 185.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b317–320-51"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b317–320_51-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b317–320_51-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b317–320_51-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b317–320_51-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b317–320_51-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBurt_2012b">Burt 2012b</a>, pp. 317–320.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELevy22-52"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELevy22_52-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLevy">Levy</a>, p. 22.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEJohnston111–116,_154–155-53"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJohnston111–116,_154–155_53-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFJohnston">Johnston</a>, pp. 111–116, 154–155.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBrown102,_112–114-54"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBrown102,_112–114_54-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBrown">Brown</a>, pp. 102, 112–114.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERaven_&_Roberts344,_346-55"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERaven_&_Roberts344,_346_55-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRaven_&_Roberts">Raven & Roberts</a>, pp. 344, 346.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTESmith_2008105-56"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmith_2008105_56-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFSmith_2008">Smith 2008</a>, p. 105.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTESmith_2008156–158-57"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmith_2008156–158_57-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmith_2008156–158_57-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFSmith_2008">Smith 2008</a>, pp. 156–158.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERaven_&_Roberts166,_185,_189-58"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERaven_&_Roberts166,_185,_189_58-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRaven_&_Roberts">Raven & Roberts</a>, pp. 166, 185, 189.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEJohnston121-59"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJohnston121_59-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFJohnston">Johnston</a>, p. 121.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTESmith_2008287,_297-60"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmith_2008287,_297_60-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFSmith_2008">Smith 2008</a>, pp. 287, 297.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEJackson293,_295–296,_298-61"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJackson293,_295–296,_298_61-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFJackson">Jackson</a>, pp. 293, 295–296, 298.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b318-62"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt_2012b318_62-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBurt_2012b">Burt 2012b</a>, p. 318.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTESmith_2008354–356,_360-63"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmith_2008354–356,_360_63-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFSmith_2008">Smith 2008</a>, pp. 354–356, 360.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEDaniel98–99-64"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDaniel98–99_64-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFDaniel">Daniel</a>, pp. 98–99.</span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Revenge-class_battleship&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBrown" class="citation book cs1">Brown, David (2000). <i>Naval Operations of the Campaign in Norway, April–June 1940</i>. London: Routledge. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7146-5119-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7146-5119-4"><bdi>978-0-7146-5119-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Naval+Operations+of+the+Campaign+in+Norway%2C+April%E2%80%93June+1940&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Routledge&rft.date=2000&rft.isbn=978-0-7146-5119-4&rft.aulast=Brown&rft.aufirst=David&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARevenge-class+battleship" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBurt_2012a" class="citation book cs1">Burt, R. A. (2012a). <i>British Battleships, 1919–1939</i> (2nd ed.). Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-59114-052-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-59114-052-8"><bdi>978-1-59114-052-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=British+Battleships%2C+1919%E2%80%931939&rft.place=Annapolis&rft.edition=2nd&rft.pub=Naval+Institute+Press&rft.date=2012&rft.isbn=978-1-59114-052-8&rft.aulast=Burt&rft.aufirst=R.+A.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARevenge-class+battleship" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBurt_2012b" class="citation book cs1">Burt, R. A. (2012b). <i>British Battleships of World War One</i> (2nd ed.). 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London: Conway Maritime Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-55821-759-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-55821-759-1"><bdi>978-1-55821-759-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Jutland%3A+An+Analysis+of+the+Fighting&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Conway+Maritime+Press&rft.date=1998&rft.isbn=978-1-55821-759-1&rft.aulast=Campbell&rft.aufirst=John&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARevenge-class+battleship" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDaniel" class="citation book cs1">Daniel, R. J. (2003). <i>The End of An Era: The Memoirs of A Naval Constructor</i>. Penzance: Periscope Publishing. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-904381-18-9" title="Special:BookSources/1-904381-18-9"><bdi>1-904381-18-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+End+of+An+Era%3A+The+Memoirs+of+A+Naval+Constructor&rft.place=Penzance&rft.pub=Periscope+Publishing&rft.date=2003&rft.isbn=1-904381-18-9&rft.aulast=Daniel&rft.aufirst=R.+J.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARevenge-class+battleship" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFriedman_2014" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Norman_Friedman" title="Norman Friedman">Friedman, Norman</a> (2014). <i>Fighting the Great War at Sea: Strategy, Tactic and Technology</i>. Barnsley: Seaforth Publishing. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-84832-189-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-84832-189-2"><bdi>978-1-84832-189-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Fighting+the+Great+War+at+Sea%3A+Strategy%2C+Tactic+and+Technology&rft.place=Barnsley&rft.pub=Seaforth+Publishing&rft.date=2014&rft.isbn=978-1-84832-189-2&rft.aulast=Friedman&rft.aufirst=Norman&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARevenge-class+battleship" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFriedman_2011" class="citation book cs1">Friedman, Norman (2011). <i>Naval Weapons of World War One: Guns, Torpedoes, Mines and ASW Weapons of All Nations; An Illustrated Directory</i>. Barnsley, UK: Seaforth Publishing. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-84832-100-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-84832-100-7"><bdi>978-1-84832-100-7</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Naval+Weapons+of+World+War+One%3A+Guns%2C+Torpedoes%2C+Mines+and+ASW+Weapons+of+All+Nations%3B+An+Illustrated+Directory&rft.place=Barnsley%2C+UK&rft.pub=Seaforth+Publishing&rft.date=2011&rft.isbn=978-1-84832-100-7&rft.aulast=Friedman&rft.aufirst=Norman&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARevenge-class+battleship" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGardiner" class="citation book cs1">Gardiner, Leslie (1965). <i>The </i>Royal Oak<i> Courts Martial</i>. Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/794019632">794019632</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Royal+Oak+Courts+Martial&rft.place=Edinburgh&rft.pub=William+Blackwood+%26+Sons&rft.date=1965&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F794019632&rft.aulast=Gardiner&rft.aufirst=Leslie&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARevenge-class+battleship" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHalpern" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Paul_G._Halpern" title="Paul G. Halpern">Halpern, Paul</a>, ed. (2011). <i>The Mediterranean Fleet, 1919–1929</i>. 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class="mw-selflink selflink"><i>Revenge</i>-class battleships</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Revenge_(06)" title="HMS Revenge (06)"><i>Revenge</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Royal_Sovereign_(05)" title="HMS Royal Sovereign (05)"><i>Royal Sovereign</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Ramillies_(07)" title="HMS Ramillies (07)"><i>Ramillies</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Resolution_(09)" title="HMS Resolution (09)"><i>Resolution</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Royal_Oak_(08)" title="HMS Royal Oak (08)"><i>Royal Oak</i></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Preceded by: <a href="/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth-class_battleship" title="Queen Elizabeth-class battleship"><i>Queen Elizabeth</i> class</a></li> <li>Followed by: <a href="/wiki/N3-class_battleship" title="N3-class battleship">N3 class</a> (planned) / <a href="/wiki/Nelson-class_battleship" title="Nelson-class battleship"><i>Nelson</i> class</a> (actual)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2" style="background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_dreadnought_battleships_of_the_Royal_Navy" title="List of dreadnought battleships of the Royal Navy">List of dreadnought battleships of the Royal Navy</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="British_naval_ship_classes_of_the_First_World_War" style=";wide;padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" 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id="British_naval_ship_classes_of_the_First_World_War" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">British naval ship classes of the First World War</div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Aircraft_carrier" title="Aircraft carrier">Aircraft</a>/<a href="/wiki/Seaplane_carrier" class="mw-redirect" title="Seaplane carrier">Seaplane carriers</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Empress_(1914)" title="HMS Empress (1914)"><i>Empress</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>S</sup></span><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>V</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Riviera" title="HMS Riviera"><i>Riviera</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>S</sup></span><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>V</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Engadine_(1911)" title="HMS Engadine (1911)"><i>Engadine</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>S</sup></span><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>V</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Ark_Royal_(1914)" title="HMS Ark Royal (1914)"><i>Ark Royal</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>S</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Ben-my-Chree" title="HMS Ben-my-Chree"><i>Ben-my-Chree</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>S</sup></span><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>V</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Campania_(1914)" title="HMS Campania (1914)"><i>Campania</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>S</sup></span><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>V</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Raven_II" title="HMS Raven II"><i>Raven II</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>S</sup></span><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>V</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Anne_(1915)" title="HMS Anne (1915)"><i>Anne</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>S</sup></span><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>V</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Vindex_(1915)" title="HMS Vindex (1915)"><i>Vindex</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>S</sup></span><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>V</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/TSS_Manxman_(1904)" title="TSS Manxman (1904)"><i>Manxman</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>S</sup></span><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>V</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Furious_(47)" title="HMS Furious (47)"><i>Furious</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>M</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Pegasus_(1917)" title="HMS Pegasus (1917)"><i>Pegasus</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>S</sup></span><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>V</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Nairana_(1917)" title="HMS Nairana (1917)"><i>Nairana</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>S</sup></span><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>V</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Argus_(I49)" title="HMS Argus (I49)"><i>Argus</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>S</sup></span><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>V</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Vindictive_(1918)" title="HMS Vindictive (1918)"><i>Vindictive</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>S</sup></span><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>V</sup></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Dreadnought" title="Dreadnought">Dreadnought battleships</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Dreadnought_(1906)" title="HMS Dreadnought (1906)"><i>Dreadnought</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>S</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bellerophon-class_battleship" title="Bellerophon-class battleship"><i>Bellerophon</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Vincent-class_battleship" title="St Vincent-class battleship"><i>St Vincent</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Neptune_(1909)" title="HMS Neptune (1909)"><i>Neptune</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>S</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colossus-class_battleship_(1910)" title="Colossus-class battleship (1910)"><i>Colossus</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orion-class_battleship" title="Orion-class battleship"><i>Orion</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/King_George_V-class_battleship_(1911)" title="King George V-class battleship (1911)"><i>King George V</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Erin" title="HMS Erin"><i>Erin</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>S</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Agincourt_(1913)" title="HMS Agincourt (1913)"><i>Agincourt</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>S</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iron_Duke-class_battleship" title="Iron Duke-class battleship"><i>Iron Duke</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chilean_battleship_Almirante_Latorre" title="Chilean battleship Almirante Latorre"><i>Canada</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>S</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth-class_battleship" title="Queen Elizabeth-class battleship"><i>Queen Elizabeth</i></a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink"><i>Revenge</i></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Pre-dreadnought_battleship" title="Pre-dreadnought battleship">Pre-dreadnought battleships</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Sovereign-class_battleship" title="Royal Sovereign-class battleship"><i>Royal Sovereign</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Majestic-class_battleship" title="Majestic-class battleship"><i>Majestic</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canopus-class_battleship" title="Canopus-class battleship"><i>Canopus</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Formidable-class_battleship" title="Formidable-class battleship"><i>Formidable</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/London-class_battleship" title="London-class battleship"><i>London</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Duncan-class_battleship" title="Duncan-class battleship"><i>Duncan</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/King_Edward_VII-class_battleship" title="King Edward VII-class battleship"><i>King Edward VII</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Swiftsure-class_battleship" title="Swiftsure-class battleship"><i>Swiftsure</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lord_Nelson-class_battleship" title="Lord Nelson-class battleship"><i>Lord Nelson</i></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Battlecruiser" title="Battlecruiser">Battlecruisers</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Invincible-class_battlecruiser" title="Invincible-class battlecruiser"><i>Invincible</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indefatigable-class_battlecruiser" title="Indefatigable-class battlecruiser"><i>Indefatigable</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lion-class_battlecruiser" title="Lion-class battlecruiser"><i>Lion</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Queen_Mary" title="HMS Queen Mary"><i>Queen Mary</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>S</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Tiger_(1913)" title="HMS Tiger (1913)"><i>Tiger</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>S</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Renown-class_battlecruiser" title="Renown-class battlecruiser"><i>Renown</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Courageous-class_battlecruiser" title="Courageous-class battlecruiser"><i>Courageous</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Admiral-class_battlecruiser" title="Admiral-class battlecruiser">Admiral</a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>S</sup></span><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>A</sup></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Armored_cruiser" title="Armored cruiser">Armoured cruisers</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cressy-class_cruiser" title="Cressy-class cruiser"><i>Cressy</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Drake-class_cruiser" title="Drake-class cruiser"><i>Drake</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monmouth-class_cruiser" title="Monmouth-class cruiser"><i>Monmouth</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Devonshire-class_cruiser_(1903)" title="Devonshire-class cruiser (1903)"><i>Devonshire</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Duke_of_Edinburgh-class_cruiser" title="Duke of Edinburgh-class cruiser"><i>Duke of Edinburgh</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Warrior-class_cruiser" title="Warrior-class cruiser"><i>Warrior</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Minotaur-class_cruiser_(1906)" title="Minotaur-class cruiser (1906)"><i>Minotaur</i></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Heavy_cruiser" title="Heavy cruiser">Heavy cruisers</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hawkins-class_cruiser" title="Hawkins-class cruiser"><i>Hawkins</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>A</sup></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Light_cruiser" title="Light cruiser">Light cruisers</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Town-class_cruiser_(1910)" title="Town-class cruiser (1910)">Town</a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>G</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arethusa-class_cruiser_(1913)" title="Arethusa-class cruiser (1913)"><i>Arethusa</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C-class_cruiser" title="C-class cruiser">C</a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>G</sup></span><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>C</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Danae-class_cruiser" title="Danae-class cruiser"><i>Danae</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>C</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emerald-class_cruiser" title="Emerald-class cruiser"><i>Emerald</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>A</sup></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Protected_cruiser" title="Protected cruiser">Protected cruisers</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Apollo-class_cruiser" title="Apollo-class cruiser"><i>Apollo</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Astraea-class_cruiser" title="Astraea-class cruiser"><i>Astraea</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eclipse-class_cruiser" title="Eclipse-class cruiser"><i>Eclipse</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blake-class_cruiser" title="Blake-class cruiser"><i>Blake</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pearl-class_cruiser" title="Pearl-class cruiser"><i>Pearl</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edgar-class_cruiser" title="Edgar-class cruiser"><i>Edgar</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Powerful-class_cruiser" title="Powerful-class cruiser"><i>Powerful</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diadem-class_cruiser" title="Diadem-class cruiser"><i>Diadem</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arrogant-class_cruiser" title="Arrogant-class cruiser"><i>Arrogant</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pelorus-class_cruiser" title="Pelorus-class cruiser"><i>Pelorus</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Highflyer-class_cruiser" title="Highflyer-class cruiser"><i>Highflyer</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Challenger-class_cruiser" title="Challenger-class cruiser"><i>Challenger</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Topaze-class_cruiser" title="Topaze-class cruiser"><i>Topaze</i></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Scout_cruiser" title="Scout cruiser">Scout cruisers</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adventure-class_cruiser" title="Adventure-class cruiser"><i>Adventure</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Forward-class_cruiser" title="Forward-class cruiser"><i>Forward</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pathfinder-class_cruiser" title="Pathfinder-class cruiser"><i>Pathfinder</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sentinel-class_cruiser" title="Sentinel-class cruiser"><i>Sentinel</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boadicea-class_cruiser" title="Boadicea-class cruiser"><i>Boadicea</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blonde-class_cruiser" title="Blonde-class cruiser"><i>Blonde</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Active-class_cruiser" title="Active-class cruiser"><i>Active</i></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Flotilla_leader" title="Flotilla leader">Destroyer flotilla leaders</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Swift_(1907)" title="HMS Swift (1907)"><i>Swift</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>S</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Faulknor-class_flotilla_leader" title="Faulknor-class flotilla leader"><i>Faulknor</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marksman-class_flotilla_leader" title="Marksman-class flotilla leader"><i>Marksman</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parker-class_flotilla_leader" title="Parker-class flotilla leader"><i>Parker</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thornycroft_type_destroyer_leader" title="Thornycroft type destroyer leader">Thornycroft (or <i>Shakespeare</i>)</a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>C</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Admiralty_type_flotilla_leader" title="Admiralty type flotilla leader">Admiralty (or <i>Scott</i>)</a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>C</sup></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Destroyer" title="Destroyer">Destroyers</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/A-class_destroyer_(1913)" title="A-class destroyer (1913)">A</a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>G</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/B-class_destroyer_(1913)" title="B-class destroyer (1913)">B</a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>G</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C-class_destroyer_(1913)" title="C-class destroyer (1913)">C</a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>G</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D-class_destroyer_(1913)" title="D-class destroyer (1913)">D</a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>G</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River-class_destroyer_(1903)" title="River-class destroyer (1903)">E</a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>G</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tribal-class_destroyer_(1905)" title="Tribal-class destroyer (1905)">F</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beagle-class_destroyer" title="Beagle-class destroyer">G</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Acorn-class_destroyer" title="Acorn-class destroyer">H</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Acheron-class_destroyer" title="Acheron-class destroyer">I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Acasta-class_destroyer" title="Acasta-class destroyer">K</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Laforey-class_destroyer_(1913)" title="Laforey-class destroyer (1913)">L</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Admiralty_M-class_destroyer" title="Admiralty M-class destroyer">Admiralty M</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hawthorn_M-class_destroyer" title="Hawthorn M-class destroyer">Hawthorn M</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thornycroft_M-class_destroyer" title="Thornycroft M-class destroyer">Thornycroft M</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yarrow_M-class_destroyer" title="Yarrow M-class destroyer">Yarrow M</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yarrow_Later_M-class_destroyer" title="Yarrow Later M-class destroyer">Yarrow Later M</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Medea-class_destroyer" title="Medea-class destroyer">Medea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Arno_(1915)" title="HMS Arno (1915)"><i>Arno</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>S</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/R-class_destroyer_(1916)" title="R-class destroyer (1916)">R</a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>G</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S-class_destroyer_(1917)" title="S-class destroyer (1917)">S</a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>G</sup></span><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>C</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Talisman-class_destroyer" title="Talisman-class destroyer"><i>Talisman</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/V_and_W-class_destroyer" title="V and W-class destroyer">V and W</a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>G</sup></span><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>C</sup></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Torpedo_boat" title="Torpedo boat">Torpedo boats</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/HMS_TB_81_(1885)" title="HMS TB 81 (1885)"><i>TB 81</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>S</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=TB_98-class_torpedo_boat&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="TB 98-class torpedo boat (page does not exist)"><i>TB 98</i></a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=TB_109-class_torpedo_boat&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="TB 109-class torpedo boat (page does not exist)"><i>TB 109</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/TB_114-class_torpedo_boat" title="TB 114-class torpedo boat"><i>TB 114</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cricket-class_destroyer" title="Cricket-class destroyer"><i>Cricket</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>G</sup></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Monitor_(warship)" title="Monitor (warship)">Monitors</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Marshal_Ney-class_monitor" title="Marshal Ney-class monitor"><i>Marshal Ney</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abercrombie-class_monitor" title="Abercrombie-class monitor"><i>Abercrombie</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lord_Clive-class_monitor" title="Lord Clive-class monitor"><i>Lord Clive</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Humber-class_monitor" title="Humber-class monitor"><i>Humber</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gorgon-class_monitor" title="Gorgon-class monitor"><i>Gorgon</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M15-class_monitor" title="M15-class monitor"><i>M15</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M29-class_monitor" title="M29-class monitor"><i>M29</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erebus-class_monitor" title="Erebus-class monitor"><i>Erebus</i></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Minesweeper" title="Minesweeper">Minesweepers</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Racecourse-class_minesweeper" title="Racecourse-class minesweeper">Racecourse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hunt-class_minesweeper_(1916)" title="Hunt-class minesweeper (1916)">Hunt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dance-class_minesweeper" title="Dance-class minesweeper">Dance</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Gunboat" title="Gunboat">Gunboats</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fly-class_gunboat" title="Fly-class gunboat">Fly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Insect-class_gunboat" title="Insect-class gunboat">Insect</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Submarine" title="Submarine">Submarines</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/A-class_submarine_(1903)" title="A-class submarine (1903)">A</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_B-class_submarine" title="British B-class submarine">B</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_C-class_submarine" title="British C-class submarine">C</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_D-class_submarine" title="British D-class submarine">D</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_E-class_submarine" title="British E-class submarine">E</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_F-class_submarine" title="British F-class submarine">F</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_G-class_submarine" title="British G-class submarine">G</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_H-class_submarine" title="British H-class submarine">H</a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>C</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_J-class_submarine" class="mw-redirect" title="British J-class submarine">J</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_K-class_submarine" title="British K-class submarine">K</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_L-class_submarine" title="British L-class submarine">L</a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>C</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_M-class_submarine" title="British M-class submarine">M</a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>C</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_R-class_submarine" title="British R-class submarine">R</a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>C</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Swordfish_(1916)" title="HMS Swordfish (1916)"><i>Swordfish</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>S</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_V-class_submarine_(1914)" title="British V-class submarine (1914)">V</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Sloop-of-war" title="Sloop-of-war">Sloops</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/P-class_sloop" title="P-class sloop">P</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cadmus-class_sloop" title="Cadmus-class sloop"><i>Cadmus</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flower-class_sloop" title="Flower-class sloop">Flower</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Acacia-class_sloop" title="Acacia-class sloop"><i>Acacia</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Azalea-class_sloop" title="Azalea-class sloop"><i>Azalea</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arabis-class_sloop" title="Arabis-class sloop"><i>Arabis</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anchusa-class_sloop" title="Anchusa-class sloop"><i>Anchusa</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aubrietia-class_sloop" title="Aubrietia-class sloop"><i>Aubrietia</i></a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/24-class_sloop" title="24-class sloop">24</a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>C</sup></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Naval_trawlers" class="mw-redirect" title="Naval trawlers">naval trawlers</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Castle-class_trawler" title="Castle-class trawler">Castle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mersey-class_trawler" title="Mersey-class trawler">Mersey</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow hlist" colspan="2" style="background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><div> <dl><dt>A</dt> <dd>All completed after the war</dd> <dt>C</dt> <dd>One or more completed after the war</dd> <dt>G</dt> <dd>Grouping of several classes</dd> <dt>M</dt> <dd>converted from <i>Courageous</i> class</dd> <dt>S</dt> <dd>Single ship of class</dd> <dt>V</dt> <dd>Conversions</dd></dl> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="British_naval_ship_classes_of_the_Second_World_War" style=";wide;padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:WWII_British_ships" title="Template:WWII British ships"><abbr title="View this template" style="color:inherit">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:WWII_British_ships" title="Template talk:WWII British ships"><abbr title="Discuss this template" style="color:inherit">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:WWII_British_ships" title="Special:EditPage/Template:WWII British ships"><abbr title="Edit this template" style="color:inherit">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="British_naval_ship_classes_of_the_Second_World_War" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">British naval ship classes of the Second World War</div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Aircraft_carrier" title="Aircraft carrier">Aircraft carriers</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Courageous-class_aircraft_carrier" title="Courageous-class aircraft carrier"><i>Courageous</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Eagle_(1918)" title="HMS Eagle (1918)"><i>Eagle</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Ark_Royal_(91)" title="HMS Ark Royal (91)"><i>Ark Royal</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Illustrious-class_aircraft_carrier" title="Illustrious-class aircraft carrier"><i>Illustrious</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Implacable-class_aircraft_carrier" title="Implacable-class aircraft carrier"><i>Implacable</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Audacious-class_aircraft_carrier" title="Audacious-class aircraft carrier"><i>Audacious</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>C</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malta-class_aircraft_carrier" title="Malta-class aircraft carrier"><i>Malta</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>X</sup></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Light_aircraft_carrier" title="Light aircraft carrier">Light aircraft carriers</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Argus_(I49)" title="HMS Argus (I49)"><i>Argus</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Hermes_(95)" title="HMS Hermes (95)"><i>Hermes</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Unicorn_(I72)" title="HMS Unicorn (I72)"><i>Unicorn</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1942_Design_Light_Fleet_Carrier" title="1942 Design Light Fleet Carrier"><i>Colossus</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1942_Design_Light_Fleet_Carrier" title="1942 Design Light Fleet Carrier"><i>Majestic</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>C</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Centaur-class_aircraft_carrier" title="Centaur-class aircraft carrier"><i>Centaur</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>C</sup></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Escort_carrier" title="Escort carrier">Escort carriers</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Archer_(D78)" title="HMS Archer (D78)"><i>Archer</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>AV</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Audacity" title="HMS Audacity"><i>Audacity</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>V</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Avenger-class_escort_carrier" title="Avenger-class escort carrier"><i>Avenger</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>AV</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Attacker-class_escort_carrier" title="Attacker-class escort carrier"><i>Attacker</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>A</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ruler-class_escort_carrier" title="Ruler-class escort carrier">Ruler</a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>A</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Activity_(D94)" title="HMS Activity (D94)"><i>Activity</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>V</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Pretoria_Castle_(F61)" title="HMS Pretoria Castle (F61)"><i>Pretoria Castle</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>V</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nairana-class_escort_carrier" title="Nairana-class escort carrier"><i>Nairana</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>V</sup></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Battleship" title="Battleship">Battleships</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth-class_battleship" title="Queen Elizabeth-class battleship"><i>Queen Elizabeth</i></a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink"><i>Revenge</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nelson-class_battleship" title="Nelson-class battleship"><i>Nelson</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/King_George_V-class_battleship_(1939)" title="King George V-class battleship (1939)"><i>King George V</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lion-class_battleship" title="Lion-class battleship"><i>Lion</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>X</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Vanguard_(23)" title="HMS Vanguard (23)"><i>Vanguard</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>C</sup></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Battlecruiser" title="Battlecruiser">Battlecruisers</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Renown-class_battlecruiser" title="Renown-class battlecruiser"><i>Renown</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Hood" title="HMS Hood"><i>Hood</i></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Heavy_cruiser" title="Heavy cruiser">Heavy cruisers</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hawkins-class_cruiser" title="Hawkins-class cruiser"><i>Hawkins</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/County-class_cruiser" title="County-class cruiser">County</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/York-class_cruiser" title="York-class cruiser"><i>York</i></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Light_cruiser" title="Light cruiser">Light cruisers</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/C-class_cruiser" title="C-class cruiser">C</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Danae-class_cruiser" title="Danae-class cruiser"><i>Danae</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hawkins-class_cruiser" title="Hawkins-class cruiser"><i>Hawkins</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emerald-class_cruiser" title="Emerald-class cruiser"><i>Emerald</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leander-class_cruiser_(1931)" title="Leander-class cruiser (1931)"><i>Leander</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arethusa-class_cruiser_(1934)" title="Arethusa-class cruiser (1934)"><i>Arethusa</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Town-class_cruiser_(1936)" title="Town-class cruiser (1936)">Town</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dido-class_cruiser" title="Dido-class cruiser"><i>Dido</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fiji-class_cruiser" title="Fiji-class cruiser"><i>Fiji</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Minotaur-class_cruiser_(1943)" title="Minotaur-class cruiser (1943)"><i>Minotaur</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neptune-class_cruiser" title="Neptune-class cruiser"><i>Neptune</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>X</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Minotaur-class_cruiser_(1947)" title="Minotaur-class cruiser (1947)"><i>Minotaur</i></a> (1947)<span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>X</sup></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Flotilla_leader" title="Flotilla leader">Destroyer leaders</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thornycroft_type_destroyer_leader" title="Thornycroft type destroyer leader">Thornycroft type (<i>Shakespeare</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Admiralty_type_flotilla_leader" title="Admiralty type flotilla leader">Admiralty type (<i>Scott</i>)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Destroyer" title="Destroyer">Destroyers</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/R-class_destroyer_(1916)" title="R-class destroyer (1916)">R</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S-class_destroyer_(1917)" title="S-class destroyer (1917)">S</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/V_and_W-class_destroyer" title="V and W-class destroyer">V & W</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Town-class_destroyer" title="Town-class destroyer">Town</a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>A</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Ambuscade_(D38)" title="HMS Ambuscade (D38)"><i>Ambuscade</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Amazon_(D39)" title="HMS Amazon (D39)"><i>Amazon</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A-_and_B-class_destroyer" title="A- and B-class destroyer">A & B</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C_and_D-class_destroyer" title="C and D-class destroyer">C & D</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/E_and_F-class_destroyer" title="E and F-class destroyer">E & F</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/G_and_H-class_destroyer" title="G and H-class destroyer">G & H</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/I-class_destroyer" title="I-class destroyer">I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tribal-class_destroyer_(1936)" title="Tribal-class destroyer (1936)">Tribal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J-,_K-_and_N-class_destroyer" title="J-, K- and N-class destroyer">J, K & N</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hunt-class_destroyer" title="Hunt-class destroyer">Hunt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/L_and_M-class_destroyer" title="L and M-class destroyer">L & M</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/O_and_P-class_destroyer" title="O and P-class destroyer">O & P</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Q_and_R-class_destroyer" title="Q and R-class destroyer">Q & R</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S_and_T-class_destroyer" title="S and T-class destroyer">S & T</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/U_and_V-class_destroyer" title="U and V-class destroyer">U & V</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/W_and_Z-class_destroyer" title="W and Z-class destroyer">W & Z</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C-class_destroyer_(1943)" title="C-class destroyer (1943)">C</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle-class_destroyer" title="Battle-class destroyer">Battle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Weapon-class_destroyer" title="Weapon-class destroyer">Weapon</a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>C</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/G-class_destroyer_(1944)" title="G-class destroyer (1944)">G</a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>X</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daring-class_destroyer_(1949)" title="Daring-class destroyer (1949)"><i>Daring</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>C,P</sup></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Frigate" title="Frigate">Frigates</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/River-class_frigate" title="River-class frigate">River</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Captain-class_frigate" title="Captain-class frigate">Captain</a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>A</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colony-class_frigate" title="Colony-class frigate">Colony</a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>A</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Loch-class_frigate" title="Loch-class frigate">Loch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bay-class_frigate" title="Bay-class frigate">Bay</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Corvette" title="Corvette">Corvettes</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Flower-class_corvette" title="Flower-class corvette">Flower</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Castle-class_corvette" title="Castle-class corvette">Castle</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Sloop-of-war" title="Sloop-of-war">Sloops</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/24-class_sloop" title="24-class sloop">24</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bridgewater-class_sloop" title="Bridgewater-class sloop"><i>Bridgewater</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hastings-class_sloop" title="Hastings-class sloop"><i>Hastings</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Banff-class_sloop" title="Banff-class sloop"><i>Banff</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>A</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shoreham-class_sloop" title="Shoreham-class sloop"><i>Shoreham</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grimsby-class_sloop" title="Grimsby-class sloop"><i>Grimsby</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kingfisher-class_sloop" title="Kingfisher-class sloop"><i>Kingfisher</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bittern-class_sloop" title="Bittern-class sloop"><i>Bittern</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Egret-class_sloop" title="Egret-class sloop"><i>Egret</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Black_Swan-class_sloop" title="Black Swan-class sloop"><i>Black Swan</i></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Minelayer" title="Minelayer">Minelayers</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Adventure_(M23)" title="HMS Adventure (M23)"><i>Adventure</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abdiel-class_minelayer" title="Abdiel-class minelayer"><i>Abdiel</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Plover_(M26)" title="HMS Plover (M26)"><i>Plover</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Linnet-class_minelayer" title="Linnet-class minelayer"><i>Linnet</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M-class_minelayer" title="M-class minelayer">M</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Agamemnon_(M10)" title="HMS Agamemnon (M10)"><i>Agamemnon</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>V</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Menestheus" title="HMS Menestheus"><i>Menestheus</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>V</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Port_Napier" title="HMS Port Napier"><i>Port Napier</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>V</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Port_Quebec" title="HMS Port Quebec"><i>Port Quebec</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>V</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Southern_Prince" title="HMS Southern Prince"><i>Southern Prince</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>V</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Teviot_Bank" title="HMS Teviot Bank"><i>Teviot Bank</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>V</sup></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Minesweeper" title="Minesweeper">Minesweepers</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hunt-class_minesweeper_(1916)" title="Hunt-class minesweeper (1916)">Hunt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Halcyon-class_minesweeper" title="Halcyon-class minesweeper"><i>Halcyon</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bangor-class_minesweeper" title="Bangor-class minesweeper"><i>Bangor</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/MMS-class_minesweeper" title="MMS-class minesweeper">MMS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Auk-class_minesweeper" title="Auk-class minesweeper"><i>Auk</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>A</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Algerine-class_minesweeper" title="Algerine-class minesweeper"><i>Algerine</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cybele-class_mine_destructor_vessel" title="Cybele-class mine destructor vessel"><i>Cybele</i></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Net_laying_ship" title="Net laying ship">Netlayers</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Guardian_(1932)" title="HMS Guardian (1932)"><i>Guardian</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_White_(trawler)" title="Mary White (trawler)"><i>Mary White</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Protector_(A146)" title="HMS Protector (A146)"><i>Protector</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bar-class_boom_defence_vessel" title="Bar-class boom defence vessel"><i>Bar</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Net-class_boom_defence_vessel" title="Net-class boom defence vessel"><i>Net</i></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Submarine" title="Submarine">Submarines</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/British_H-class_submarine" title="British H-class submarine">H</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_L-class_submarine" title="British L-class submarine">L</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Odin-class_submarine" title="Odin-class submarine"><i>Odin</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parthian-class_submarine" title="Parthian-class submarine"><i>Parthian</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rainbow-class_submarine" title="Rainbow-class submarine"><i>Rainbow</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_S-class_submarine_(1931)" title="British S-class submarine (1931)">S</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River-class_submarine" title="River-class submarine">River</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grampus-class_submarine" title="Grampus-class submarine"><i>Grampus</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_T-class_submarine" title="British T-class submarine">T</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_U-class_submarine" title="British U-class submarine">U</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oru%C3%A7_Reis-class_submarine" title="Oruç Reis-class submarine"><i>P611</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_V-class_submarine" title="British V-class submarine">V</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amphion-class_submarine" title="Amphion-class submarine"><i>Amphion</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/X-class_submarine" title="X-class submarine">X</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/XE-class_submarine" title="XE-class submarine">XE</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Coastal_Forces_of_the_Royal_Navy" title="Coastal Forces of the Royal Navy">Coastal</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/Harbour_defence_motor_launch" title="Harbour defence motor launch">Harbour defence motor launch</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Fairmile_B_motor_launch" title="Fairmile B motor launch">Fairmile B motor launch</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Motor_torpedo_boat" title="Motor torpedo boat">Motor torpedo boat</a></dd> <dd><a 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Royal (1914)"><i>Pegasus</i></a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/HMAS_Albatross_(1928)" title="HMAS Albatross (1928)"><i>Albatross</i></a></dd> <dt><a href="/wiki/Submarine_tender" title="Submarine tender">Submarine depot ship</a></dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/HMS_Adamant_(A164)" title="HMS Adamant (A164)"><i>Adamant</i></a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/HMS_Bonaventure_(F139)" title="HMS Bonaventure (F139)"><i>Bonaventure</i></a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/HMS_Forth_(A187)" title="HMS Forth (A187)"><i>Forth</i></a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/HMS_Maidstone_(1937)" title="HMS Maidstone (1937)"><i>Maidstone</i></a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/HMS_Titania" title="HMS Titania"><i>Titania</i></a></dd> <dd><b><a href="/wiki/Merchant_aircraft_carrier" title="Merchant aircraft carrier">Merchant aircraft carriers</a></b></dd> <dd><b><a href="/wiki/Fighter_catapult_ship" title="Fighter catapult ship">Fighter catapult ships</a></b></dd> <dd><b><a href="/wiki/Armed_merchantman" title="Armed merchantman">Armed merchant cruisers</a></b></dd> <dd><b><a href="/wiki/Ocean_boarding_vessel" title="Ocean boarding vessel">Ocean boarding vessels</a></b></dd></dl> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow hlist" colspan="2" style="background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><div> <dl><dt>A</dt> <dd>American built</dd> <dt>X</dt> <dd>Cancelled</dd> <dt>C</dt> <dd>Completed after the war</dd> <dt>C,P</dt> <dd>Laid down and completed after the war</dd> <dt>V</dt> <dd>Conversions</dd></dl> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Soviet_naval_ship_classes_of_World_War_II" style=";wide;padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:WWII_Soviet_ships" title="Template:WWII Soviet ships"><abbr title="View this template" style="color:inherit">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:WWII_Soviet_ships" title="Template talk:WWII Soviet ships"><abbr title="Discuss this template" style="color:inherit">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:WWII_Soviet_ships" title="Special:EditPage/Template:WWII Soviet ships"><abbr title="Edit this template" style="color:inherit">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Soviet_naval_ship_classes_of_World_War_II" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Soviet_Navy" title="Soviet Navy">Soviet naval ship classes</a> of <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/Battleship" title="Battleship">Battleships</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gangut-class_battleship" title="Gangut-class battleship"><i>Gangut</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Royal_Sovereign_(05)#Service_with_the_Soviet_Navy" title="HMS Royal Sovereign (05)"><i>Revenge</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>UK</sup></span><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>/</sup></span><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>S</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sovetsky_Soyuz-class_battleship" title="Sovetsky Soyuz-class battleship"><i>Sovetsky Soyuz</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>X</sup></span></li></ul> 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href="/wiki/Admiral_Nakhimov-class_cruiser" title="Admiral Nakhimov-class cruiser"><i>Admiral Nakhimov</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Milwaukee_(CL-5)#Soviet_service" title="USS Milwaukee (CL-5)"><i>Omaha</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>US</sup></span><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>/</sup></span><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>S</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/German_cruiser_L%C3%BCtzow_(1939)#Service_history" title="German cruiser Lützow (1939)"><i>Admiral Hipper</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>G</sup></span><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>/</sup></span><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>S</sup></span><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>/</sup></span><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>X</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kirov-class_cruiser" title="Kirov-class cruiser"><i>Kirov</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chapayev-class_cruiser" title="Chapayev-class cruiser"><i>Chapayev</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>C</sup></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/Soviet_World_War_II_destroyers" title="Soviet World War II destroyers">Destroyers</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Soviet_destroyer_Yakov_Sverdlov" class="mw-redirect" title="Soviet destroyer Yakov Sverdlov"><i>Novik</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Derzky-class_destroyer" title="Derzky-class destroyer"><i>Derzky</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orfey-class_destroyer" title="Orfey-class destroyer"><i>Orfey</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Izyaslav-class_destroyer" title="Izyaslav-class destroyer"><i>Izyaslav</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fidonisy-class_destroyer" title="Fidonisy-class destroyer"><i>Fidonisy</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leningrad-class_destroyer" title="Leningrad-class destroyer"><i>Leningrad</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tashkent-class_destroyer" title="Tashkent-class destroyer"><i>Tashkent</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>I</sup></span><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>/</sup></span><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>S</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gnevny-class_destroyer" title="Gnevny-class destroyer"><i>Gnevny</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Storozhevoy-class_destroyer" title="Storozhevoy-class destroyer"><i>Storozhevoy</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Soviet_destroyer_Opytny" title="Soviet destroyer Opytny"><i>Opytny</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>S</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kiev-class_destroyer" title="Kiev-class destroyer"><i>Kiev</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>X</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ognevoy-class_destroyer" title="Ognevoy-class destroyer"><i>Ognevoy</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Town-class_destroyer" title="Town-class destroyer">Town</a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>UK</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M%C4%83r%C4%83%C5%9Fti-class_destroyer" class="mw-redirect" title="Mărăşti-class destroyer"><i>Mărăşti</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>R</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Regele_Ferdinand-class_destroyer" title="Regele Ferdinand-class destroyer"><i>Regele Ferdinand</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>R</sup></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/Guard_ship" title="Guard ship">Guard ships</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/MO-class_small_guard_ship" title="MO-class small guard ship">MO</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uragan-class_guard_ship" title="Uragan-class guard ship"><i>Uragan</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yastreb-class_guard_ship" title="Yastreb-class guard ship"><i>Yastreb</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A-class_torpedo_boat" title="A-class torpedo boat">A</a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>E</sup></span><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>/</sup></span><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>S</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tacoma-class_frigate" title="Tacoma-class frigate"><i>Tacoma</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>US</sup></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/Minelayer" title="Minelayer">Minelayers</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Russian_yacht_Standart" title="Russian yacht Standart"><i>Marti</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>S</sup></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/Minesweeper" title="Minesweeper">Minesweepers</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fugas-class_minesweeper" title="Fugas-class minesweeper"><i>Fugas</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Admirable-class_minesweeper" title="Admirable-class minesweeper"><i>Admirable</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>US</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/MT-class_minesweeper" title="MT-class minesweeper">MT</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/Motor_torpedo_boat" title="Motor torpedo boat">Motor torpedo boats</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sh-4-class_motor_torpedo_boat&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sh-4-class motor torpedo boat (page does not exist)">Sh-4</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/G-5-class_motor_torpedo_boat" title="G-5-class motor torpedo boat">G-5</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D3-class_motor_torpedo_boat" title="D3-class motor torpedo boat">D3</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/PT_boat" title="PT boat">PT boats</a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>US</sup></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/Submarine" title="Submarine">Submarines</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dekabrist-class_submarine" title="Dekabrist-class submarine">D</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leninets-class_submarine" title="Leninets-class submarine">L</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shchuka-class_submarine" title="Shchuka-class submarine">Shch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pravda-class_submarine" title="Pravda-class 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title="NMS Marsuinul">Marsuinul</a></i><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>R</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/CB-class_midget_submarine" title="CB-class midget submarine">CB</a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>R</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Sunfish_(81S)" title="HMS Sunfish (81S)">S</a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>UK</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_U-class_submarine" title="British U-class submarine">U</a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>UK</sup></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2" style="background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><div> <dl><dt>UK</dt> <dd>Loan from <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a></dd> <dt>US</dt> <dd>Loan from <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a></dd> <dt>G</dt> <dd>Bought from <a href="/wiki/Nazi_Germany" title="Nazi Germany">Germany</a></dd> <dt>I</dt> <dd>Bought from <a 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