Royal Navy — Battlecruiser class
Renown-class battlecruiser
Renown class
The class in numbers
- 2 Planned
- 2 Completed
- 1 Lost
- 1 Scrapped
Design and service
- Type
- Battlecruiser
- Navy
- Royal Navy
- Built
- 1915–1916
- Preceded by
- HMS Tiger (1913)
- Succeeded by
- Courageous-class battlecruiser
- Builders
- Fairfields
- John Brown
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
Repulse as built
- Displacement, standard
- 27,200 long tons (27,636 t)
- Length
- 242.01 m (794 ft)
- Speed
- 32 knots (59.3 km/h, 36.8 mph)
- Main gun
- 381 mm (15 in)
- Armament
- 3 × twin 15 in guns
- 5 × triple, 2 × single 4 in guns
- 2 × single 3 in AA guns
- 2 × 21 in torpedo tubes
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| HMS Renown (1916) | 1916 | 1916 | Scrapped 1948 |
| HMS Repulse (1916) | 1916 | 1916 | Sunk 1941 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Renown-class battlecruiser on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.