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Repulse mounted a pair of QF 3-inch 20 cwt [Note 1] anti-aircraft guns mounted on the shelter deck abreast the rear funnel. [7] She mounted two submerged tubes for 21-inch (533 mm) torpedoes, one on each side forward of 'A' barbette. [8] Repulse ' s waterline belt of Krupp cemented armour measured 6 inches (152 mm) thick amidships. Her gun ...
The Battlecruiser HMS Hood at the Panama Canal Zone in July 1924. Battlecruisers under Rear Admiral Sir Frederick Field. HMS Hood (Captain John K Im Thurn) HMS Repulse (Captain Henry Parker) Light cruisers under Rear Admiral Sir Hubert Brand. HMS Danae (Captain F Austin) HMS Dauntless (Captain C Round-Turner) HMS Delhi (Captain J Murray Pipon)
HMS Repulse was joined by a BBC film crew for a deployment in 1984. The crew documented the effect of the 8 week long deployment on both the crew, and family members on land. The program was broadcast in February 1985, as part of a 6 film series documenting the Royal Navy Submarine Service. [6]
The sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse was a naval engagement in World War II, as part of the war in the Pacific, that took place on 10 December 1941 in the South China Sea off the east coast of the British colonies of Malaya (present-day Malaysia) and the Straits Settlements (present-day Singapore and its coastal towns), 70 miles (61 nautical miles; 110 kilometres) east of Kuantan, Pahang.
Of the first nine battlecruisers, only HMS Tiger survived the Washington Treaty and into the 1930s. The three Courageous-class ships were converted to aircraft carriers during the 1920s and only Repulse, Renown and Hood served in the Second World War as battlecruisers. All three went through substantial refits between the wars.
Tennant subsequently served as captain of the battlecruiser HMS Repulse, when she searched for German capital ships in the Atlantic. He remained in this capacity when the Repulse was sunk by the Japanese along with HMS Prince of Wales in the South China Sea on 10 December 1941, three days after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
HMS Repulse was one of seven Royal Sovereign-class pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy in the 1890s. Assigned to the Channel Fleet, where she often served as a flagship, after commissioning in 1894, the ship participated in a series of annual manoeuvres, and the Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee Fleet Review during the rest of the decade.
HMS Repulse (1803) was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1803 and broken up in 1820. HMS Repulse was a screw-propelled 91-gun second rate launched on 27 February 1855 as HMS Repulse but renamed HMS Victor Emmanuel on 7 December 1855, used as a receiving ship after 1873, and sold in 1899.