HMS Repulse (1892)

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HMS Repulse moored at a dock.
Career RN Ensign
Laid down: 1 January 1890
Launched: 27 Feburary 1892
Commissioned: 21 April 1894
Fate: Sold for scrapping 1911

[edit] Launching

HMS Repulse was a Royal Sovereign class battleship. She was commissioned in 1890 and launched on 27 February 1892. Built at Pembroke she was 410 feet long and had a maximum crusing speed of 17 knots. Her armaments included 4 x 67 ton 13.5" guns and several smaller calibre guns. She was the tenth ship to bear the name HMS Repulse.

[edit] Fate

HMS Repulse was decommissioned in 1910 and sold for scrap in 1911.