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HMS Renown was the lead ship of her class of battlecruisers of the Royal Navy built during the First World War. She was originally laid down as an improved version of the Revenge -class battleships. Her construction was suspended on the outbreak of war on the grounds she would not be ready in time.
HMS Renown (1857) was a 91-gun second rate launched in 1857 and sold to Prussia in 1870. HMS Renown was to have been a Victoria-class battleship, but she was renamed HMS Victoria in 1887 and launched later that year. HMS Renown was to have been a Royal Sovereign-class battleship but she was renamed HMS Empress of India in 1890 and launched in 1891.
HMS Renown was a second-class predreadnought battleship built for the Royal Navy in the early 1890s. Intended to command cruiser squadrons operating on foreign stations, the ship served as the flagship of the North America and West Indies Station and the Mediterranean Fleet early in her career.
He wanted a long, high, flared bow, like that on the pre-dreadnought HMS Renown, but higher, four 15-inch guns in two twin turrets, an anti-torpedo boat armament of twenty 4-inch (102 mm) guns mounted high up and protected by gun shields only, speed of 32 knots using oil fuel, and armour on the scale of the battlecruiser Indefatigable. Within a ...
British and German naval movements off Norway between 7 and 9 April 1940. Whitworth's force consisted of the battlecruiser Renown and the nine remaining destroyers.HMS Hotspur, Hardy, Havock, and Hunter were H-class destroyers, HMS Esk was an E-class destroyer and HMS Ivanhoe, Icarus and Impulsive were of the I class.
In early 1944 Renown was transferred to the Eastern Fleet in the Indian Ocean, where she supported numerous attacks on Japanese-occupied facilities in Indonesia and various island groups in the Indian Ocean. The ship returned to the Home Fleet in early 1945 and was placed in reserve after the end of the war. Renown was sold for scrap in 1948. [30]
Its best-known constituent ship was HMS Hood, "The Mighty Hood", which was lost in the Battle of the Denmark Strait on 24 May 1941. Following the loss of HMS Repulse on 10 December 1941, Battlecruiser Squadron was disbanded. Its last surviving member, HMS Renown, survived World War II and was removed from service and scrapped in 1948.
HMS Renown was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. [2] She was to have been named HMS Royal Oak, but the name was changed to Renown on 15 February 1796. [citation needed] She was launched at Deptford Wharf on 2 May 1798 [2] and served in 1800-1801 as the flagship of Sir John Borlase Warren, initially in the English Channel.