HMS Revenge (06)
Service
- as Revenge1 February 1916 — 5 September 19482,193 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Revenge
- Pennant / hull number
- 06
- Builder
- Vickers Limited, Barrow-in-Furness
- Laid down
- 22 December 1913
- Launched
- 29 May 1915
- Commissioned
- 1 February 1916
- Fate
- Scrapped, 5 September 1948 (1948)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- 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)
- Beam
- 26.82 m (88 ft)
- Draught
- 10.06 m (33 ft)
- Speed
- 21.9 knots (40.6 km/h, 25.2 mph)
- Range
- 7,000 nmi (12,964 km)
- Main gun
- 381 mm (15 in)
HMS Revenge was a Revenge-class battleship of the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number 06. Vickers Limited, Barrow-in-Furness laid her keel on 22 December 1913. Launched on 29 May 1915, she entered service on 1 February 1916.
Six ships of the class were built. The class followed the Queen Elizabeth-class battleship and was succeeded by the N3-class battleship.
Displacement was 29,590 long tons standard and 32,820 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 21.9 knots.
Her main battery was eight 381 mm (15 in) guns in four twin mountings. Her machinery developed 40,000 shp through four shafts.
She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap on 5 September 1948.
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; 2 sets 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 (533 mm) 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: 4 to 6 in
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Revenge (06) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Stanley Devon — This photograph CH 823 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons