The Renown class was a two ship class of battlecruisers of the Royal Navy, and were a battlecruiser design derived from, and originally intended to be members of, the Revenge-class battleships. The class consisted of two ships: HMS Renown, and HMS Repulse. A third ship, Resistance, was cancelled prior to construction. 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. Renown was scrapped in 1948; Repulse was sunk on 10 December1941 in the South China Sea off of Kuantan. File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... HMS Hood (left) and HMS Barham (right), in Malta, 1937. ... The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the senior service of the armed services, being the oldest of its three branches. ... HMS Royal Sovereign The Revenge-class battleships were five battleships of the Royal Navy, ordered as World War I loomed on the horizon, and launched in 1914–1916. ... HMS Renown was the lead ship of a class of two 26,500-ton battlecruisers of the Royal Navy. ... HMS Repulse was a Renown-class battlecruiser, the second to last battlecruiser built for the Royal Navy. ... WWI redirects here. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km (over 11 miles) into the air, August 9, 1945 after the Allied atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. ... 1948 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... December 10 is the 344th day (345th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1941 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The South China Sea, showing surrounding countries and neighbouring seas and oceans The South China Sea is a marginal sea, part of the Pacific Ocean, encompassing an area from Singapore to the Strait of Taiwan of around 3,500,000 km². It is the largest sea body after the five...
The Renownclass was a class of 2 battlecruisers of the Royal Navy built during the First World War.
Eustace Tennyson-D'Eyncourt as Director of Naval Construction had designed the Revenges and the Renowns were produced by reducing the number of turrets from four to three and providing thinner armour.
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