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HMS Revenge (1892)
HMS ''Revenge'' was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the ''Royal Sovereign'' class of the British Royal Navy. She was renamed HMS ''Redoubtable'' in 1915. ''Revenge'' notably served as the flagship of the Flying Squadron and bombarding the coast of Flanders during World War I before being refitted as an accommodation ship in 1915. As the last surviving member of her class, she was sold for scrap in December 1919.
==Technical characteristics==
''Revenge'' was laid down by Palmers on 12 February 1891, launched on 3 November 1892, and completed in March 1894. She was 410 feet long and had a maximum cruising speed of 17 knots. Her armament included four 67-ton 13.5-inch (343-mm) guns and several smaller calibre guns.
The ''Royal Sovereign''-class battleships were designed by Sir William White and were the most potent battleships in the world until HMS ''Dreadnought'' rendered them obsolete overnight in 1906. In their day the ''Royal Sovereign''s had also embodied revolutionary improvements in firepower, armour and speed. The main armament of four 13.5-inch (343-mm) guns was housed in two barbettes, rather than turrets, at either end of the ship which allowed a high freeboard, greatly increasing their capacity for fighting in rough weather; however, they tended to develop a heavy roll in some conditions, and after HMS ''Resolution'' rolled badly in heavy seas in 1893, the entire class was nicknamed the "Rolling Ressies," which stuck even though the problem was quickly corrected by the fitting of bilge keels.〔 The secondary armament was designed to provide potent, quick firing support for the main battery. Despite their greatly increased weight, thanks to a main armour belt which ran for two thirds of their length, they were the fastest capital ships in the world in their time.
In 1906, the ''Royal Sovereigns'', like every other battleship in the world, were made obsolete with the launch of the revolutionary HMS ''Dreadnought'', the first all-big-gun battleship. Of the ''Royal Sovereign'' class, only ''Revenge'' survived to see the outbreak of World War I.
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