HMS Revenge (1892)

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Career

Builder:	Palmers
Laid down:
Launched:	3 November 1892
Renamed:	HMS Redoubtable 1915
Status:	Sold 6 November 1919 and scrapped
General Characteristics
Displacement:	14,150 tons standard; 15,580 tons full load
Length:	410 ft 6 in (125.12 m)
Beam:	Beam: 75 ft 0 in (22.86 m)
Draught:	27 ft 6 in (8.38 m)
Propulsion:	two Humphreys vertical triple expansion, eight cylindrical boilers, two shafts
Speed:	17.5 knots
Complement:	712
Armament:	four 13.5 inch (343 mm), ten 6 inch (152 mm), sixteen 6 pounder, twelve 3 pounder guns, seven 18 inch (460 mm) torpedo tubes (five above water, two underwater)
Armour:	Partial 18 inch compound armour belt 8 feet 6 inches deep, with complete 4 inch steel belt above.

HMS Revenge was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the Royal Sovereign class of the British Royal Navy.

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. Only Revenge and her sister ship HMS Hood survived to see the outbreak of World War I.

HMS Revenge was flagship during the blockade of Crete in 1898. Laid up awaiting disposal at the outbreak of the War, she was refitted as a bombardment ship, and her guns relined to 12in. Based at Dover, Revenge bombarded the Belgian coast between 1914 and 1915.

In August 1915, she was renamed HMS Redoubtable to free her name for the Revenge class battleship HMS Revenge. From October 1915, she was laid up at Portsmouth, until sold to Messrs Ward and scrapped in 1919.