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HMS ''Repulse'' was a ''Royal Sovereign''-class pre-dreadnought battleship of the Royal Navy. She was the tenth ship to bear the name HMS ''Repulse''. Laid down in 1890, ''Repulse'' was completed in 1894, becoming one of the world's top fighting ships at launch. ''Repulse'' 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. Attached to the Channel Squadron, she completed a series of annual manueovres, and the Fleet review during Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, before redeploying in 1902 to the Mediterranean Fleet. She served there until December 1904, when she returned to Plymouth for an extensive refit. From then until sold for scrap in 1911, ''Repulse'' formed part of the Royal Navy Reserve, having been made obsolete almost overnight by the launch of HMS ''Dreadnought'' in 1906. ==Technical Characteristics== HMS ''Repulse'' was ordered under the Naval Defence Act Program of 1889. Laid down at Pembroke on 1 January 1890 and launched on 27 February 1892, she was completed in April 1894. ''Repulse'' 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 when they were commissioned, and they were front-line ships until HMS ''Dreadnought'' rendered them obsolete overnight in 1906. In their day, the ''Royal Sovereign''s 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 roll heavily in certain conditions, and after ''Resolution'' rolled badly in heavy seas in 1893, the ''Royal Sovereign'' class was nicknamed the "Rolling Ressies." While fitting out, ''Repulse'' was fitted experimentally with bilge keels, which solved the rolling problem; bilge keels were installed on the other ships of the class, but the nickname stuck.〔 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 Sovereign''s, like every other battleship in the world, were made obsolete with the launch of the revolutionary HMS ''Dreadnought'', the first all-big-gun battleship. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「HMS Repulse (1892)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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