HMS Royal Sovereign (05)
Service
- as Royal Sovereign? — 30 May 19441,731 days of the war
- 30 May 1944 — January 1949462 days of the war
- January 1949 — 18 May 1949
- Name
- HMS Royal Sovereign
- Pennant / hull number
- 05
- Builder
- HM Dockyard, Portsmouth
- Laid down
- 15 January 1914
- Launched
- 29 April 1915
- Commissioned
- 30 May 1944
- Fate
- Scrapped, 18 May 1949 (1949)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 29,970 long tons (30,451 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 31,130 long tons (31,630 t)
- Length
- 188.98 m (620 ft)
- Beam
- 26.82 m (88 ft)
- Draught
- 10.06 m (33 ft)
- Speed
- 23 knots (42.6 km/h, 26.5 mph)
- Range
- 7,000 nmi (12,964 km)
- Main gun
- 381 mm (15 in)
HMS Royal Sovereign was a Revenge-class battleship in service with the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number 05. HM Dockyard, Portsmouth laid her keel on 15 January 1914. She entered service on 30 May 1944, having been launched on 29 April 1915.
Her class ran to six ships. The class followed the Queen Elizabeth-class battleship and was succeeded by the N3-class battleship.
She displaced 29,970 long tons standard and 31,130 long tons at full load. She measured 189.0 m (620 ft) long with a beam of 26.8 m (88 ft). Her designed speed was 23 knots.
Her main battery was eight 381 mm (15 in) guns in four twin mountings. 40,000 shp drove four shafts.
She served with the Royal Navy as Royal Sovereign until 30 May 1944. She then passed to the Soviet Navy from 30 May 1944. She then passed to the Royal Navy from January 1949. She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap on 18 May 1949.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 4 shafts; 4 steam turbines
- Power
- 40000 shp
- 18 Babcock & Wilcox boilers
- Armament
- 4 × twin 15 in guns
- 14 × single 6 in guns
- 2 × single 3 in AA guns
- 4 × single 47 mm 3-pdr guns
- 4 × 21 in torpedo tubes
- Armour
- Waterline belt: 13 in
- Deck: 1 - 4 in
- Barbettes: 6 - 10 in
- Gun turrets: 11 - 13 in
- Conning tower: 3 - 11 in
- Bulkheads: 6 in
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Royal Sovereign (05) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//7/media-7402/large.jpg This photograph FL 18403 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons