Royal Navy — Battleship class
Revenge-class battleship
Revenge class
The class in numbers
- 8 Planned
- 5 Completed
- 3 Cancelled
- 1 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Battleship
- Navy
- Royal Navy
- Built
- 1913–1917
- In commission
- 1916–1949
- Preceded by
- Queen Elizabeth-class battleship
- Succeeded by
- N3-class battleship (planned)
- Builders
- Devonport Dockyard
- Palmers
- Portsmouth Dockyard
- Vickers
- William Beardmore
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 29,590 long tons (30,065 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 32,820 long tons (33,347 t)
- Length
- 188.98 m (620 ft)
- Speed
- 21 knots (38.9 km/h, 24.2 mph)
- Main gun
- 381 mm (15 in)
- 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 (533 mm) torpedo tubes
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| HMS Ramillies (07) | 07 | 1917 | Scrapped 1948 |
| HMS Resolution (09) | 09 | 1916 | Scrapped 1948 |
| HMS Revenge (06) | 06 | 1916 | Scrapped 1948 |
| HMS Royal Oak (08) | 08 | 1916 | Sunk 1939 |
| HMS Royal Sovereign (05) | 05 | 1944 | Scrapped 1949 |
| Soviet battleship Arkhangelsk | 1944 | Scrapped 1949 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Revenge-class battleship on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.