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Royal Sovereign-class battleship
The ''Royal Sovereign'' class was a class of pre-dreadnought battleships of the British Royal Navy. The class comprised seven ships built to the same design: , , , , , , and , and a half-sister built to a modified design: . They were launched from 1889 to 1894. The class displaced nearly 2,000 long tons more than the preceding s. Only one of the ships, ''Revenge'', saw active service in World War I, participating in shore bombardments of the Belgian coastline. ''Hood'' also lived on to the First World War, but was quickly sunk as a blockship. ''Revenge'' was scrapped in 1919, while her sisters were scrapped between 1913 and 1914.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Royal Sovereign Class Battleship )〕
In their day, the ''Royal Sovereign''s embodied revolutionary improvements in firepower, armour, and speed, and began the steady evolution of the pre-dreadnought battleship to its apex in the
==Background==
The ships of the ''Royal Sovereign'' class were built under the Naval Defence Act 1889, which provided £21 million for a vast expansion programme. The Act was inspired by rumours of a possible Franco-Russian alliance and by perceived shortcomings in naval forces revealed during manoeuvres the year before. In total, ten battleships, forty-two cruisers, and eighteen other vessels were built—an enormous increase. The Act marks the adoption of the two-power standard, whereby the Royal Navy sought to be as large as the next two major naval powers combined.〔Hore, p. 75〕
At the centre of the expansion programme were the ''Royal Sovereign''s, the largest and fastest capital ships of their time. The class would be the template of British battleship design for 15 years, until , being improved upon by the ships launched just a few years later. The ''Royal Sovereign''s are considered the first of the type of battleship which would become known after the commissioning of ''Dreadnought'' in 1906 as pre-dreadnoughts.
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