Renown class battlecruiser
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| Class overview | |
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| Name: | Renown |
| Preceded by: | Tiger class |
| Succeeded by: | Admiral class |
| Completed: | 2 |
| Cancelled: | 1 |
| Lost: | 1 |
| General characteristics (as built) | |
| Class and type: | Battlecruiser |
| Displacement: |
26,500 tons (design) |
| Length: | 794 ft, 2.5 in (240 m) o/a |
| Beam: | 89 ft, 11.5 in (30 m) |
| Draught: | 29 ft, 8 in (8.94 m) |
| Propulsion: | 42 Babcock & Wilcox type boilers Brown-Curtis steam turbines 4 shafts 120,000 shp |
| Speed: |
30.25 knots (service) |
| Armament: |
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| Armour: | Belt
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| Aircraft carried: | flying-off platforms on 'B' and 'X' turrets |
The Renown class was a class of two battlecruisers of the Royal Navy built during the First World War.
They were originally going to be the last ships of the Revenge-class of battleships. The initial expectation of a short war led to their construction being suspended on the grounds they would not be ready in time. Admiral Fisher, upon becoming First Sea Lord, restarted the building as battlecruisers that could be built and enter service quickly. Eustace Tennyson-D'Eyncourt as Director of Naval Construction had designed the Revenges, and the Renowns were produced by lengthening the hull, reducing the number of turrets from four to three, and providing thinner armour. As a result build time was reduced and they were delivered not long after the battle of Jutland in 1916.
The two ships were HMS Renown, and HMS Repulse. A third ship, Resistance, was cancelled before construction started. They were the world's largest capital ships upon completion, until the commissioning of HMS Hood. The ships were notorious maintenance hogs and widely derided as "HMS Refit" and "HMS Repair".
Both ships served in World War I and World War II. Repulse was sunk on 10 December 1941 in the South China Sea off Kuantan, Pahang by Japanese aircraft. Renown survived the war, to be scrapped in 1948.
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[edit] Building Programme
The following table shows the cost of the Renown class. Standard British practice at that time was for these costs to exclude armament and stores.
| Name | Builder | Engine-builder | Laid down | Launched | Completed | Cost according to | |
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| Renown | Fairfield, Govan | Fairfield Brown-Curtis Turbine |
25 Jan 1915 | 4 Mar 1916 | 20 Sep 1916 | £3,111,284 | not stated |
| Repulse | John Brown, Clydebank | John Brown Brown-Curtis Turbine |
25 Jan 1915 | 8 Jan 1916 | 18 Aug 1916 | £2,760,062 | not stated |
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[edit] References
- Gardiner, Robert and Gray, Randal (ed) Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906 - 1921, Conway Maritime Press, London, 1982. ISBN 0-85177-245-5.
- Parkes, Oscar British Battleships, first published Seeley Service & Co, 1957, published United States Naval Institute Press, 1990. ISBN 1-55750-075-4
- Richardson, Sir Alexander and Hurd, Archibald (ed) Brassey's Naval and Shipping Annual 1924
[edit] Notes
- ^ Brassey's Naval and Shipping Annual 1924, p422-424.
- ^ Parkes, Oscar, British Battleships, p608-617.
[edit] See also
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