REVENGE

Fleet

Royal Navy

Ship Type

Battleship

Nickname

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Ship Class

Royal Sovereign

Grouping

Ist Battle Squadron

Command

Grand Fleet

Builder's Yard

Barrow-on-Furness

Budget Year

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Construction Notes

Construction cost £2,406,000.

Date Laid Down

22.12.1913

Launch Date

29.05.1915

Completed date

01.02.1916

Commission date

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Year laid down

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Year launched

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Year completed

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Commission Year

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Pennant No

06

Photo Details

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Related stories

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Sister ships

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Eventual Fate

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Jutland result

Managed to hit Derfflinger five times causing explosions within her main gun turrets. She also hit von der Tann once and used her secondar batteries against the destroyer attacks from the German 6th and 9th Destroyer Flotillas. Fired 102 APC shelss and 87 rounds from secondary guns. Launched single torpedo without result and fired on the Zeppelin L.11. Also without result.

Ready for action after dock repairs

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Commander

Captain Edward B. Kiddle

Noteable Officers

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Crew complement

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Officers

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Ratings

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Killed

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Wounded

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Prisoners

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Displacement full Load (tons)

25750

Artefacts Data

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Ship's Model

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Length (ft)

620' 7"

Length (mtrs)

189.2

Beam (ft)

88' 6"

Beam (mtrs)

27

Draught (ft)

33' 7"

Draught (mtrs)

10.2

Max. Speed (knots)

23

Range (miles)

8,060 at 10 kts

Range (kilometres)

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Fuel

Oil fired (reversed previous use of both coal and fuel oil

Propulsion

4 Parsons team turbine engines heating 18 Babcock and Wilcox boilers driving 4 shafts. Rated at 40,000 shp.

Armour Main Belt

13" (330 mm) Krupp cemented armour

Deck Armour

1" - 4" (25 - 102 mm)

Turret Armour IN CM

11" - 13" (279 - 300 mm)

Conning Tower Armour

3" - 11" (76 - 279 mm)

Barbette Armour

6" - 10" 162 - 254 mm)

Weight of armour

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Armour / Displacement Ratio

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Watertight compartments

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General Notes

Designed as smaller version of the Queen Elizabeth class

Fire Control Table

Dreyer Table Mk 1V, Dreyer Turret Control Table

Fire Control - Clock

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Primary Gun calibre

BL 15" Mk 1 (381 mm)

No. Primary Turrets

4

Guns (No.barrels)

8

Primary gun layout

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Rounds per main gun

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Effective broadside guns

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Primary shell Weight (inches or cm)

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Primary Broadside Weight

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Secondary Gun Calibre

BL 6" guns (152 mm)

Guns (No.barrels) 2

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Rounds per secondary

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Other Armament

Two single barrel QF 3" 20 cwt AA guns, Four Single 47 mm (1.9”) 3-pdr guns

Elevation (degrees)

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Gunnery Range (yards)

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Gunnery Range (metres)

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Rate of Fire (rds per minute)

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Shells expended Main

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Mines dropped

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Shells expended Secondary

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Torpedoes fired

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Gunnery Notes

12 of the econdary guns were mounted in casemates along the broadside while 2 were on the Shelter deck. Had two FC Directors and used two 15' (4.6 Mtrs) rangefinders.

Torpedo Type IN

21” ( 533 mm) Whitehead

No. tubes

4

Torpedo Type MM

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No. Mines

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Torpedo Notes

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References & sources

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