The Renown class consisted of two battlecruisers built during the First World War for the Royal Navy. They were originally laid down as improved versions...
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HMS Renown was the lead ship of her class of battlecruisers of the Royal Navy built during the First World War. She was originally laid down as an improved...
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HMS Renown (1916) was a Renown-class battlecruiser launched in 1916 and sold in 1948. HMS Renown (S26) was a Resolution-class submarine launched in 1967. She...
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Renown-class battlecruisers as emergency builds during the war. The only new capital ships laid down in the war were the Admiral-class battlecruisers...
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sailing cargo ship Renown-class battlecruiser, two Royal Navy ships of World War I HMS Renown, several ships of the Royal Navy AEC Renown, three different...
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Courageous class consisted of three battlecruisers known as "large light cruisers" built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. The class was nominally...
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ordered as additions to the Mackensen class, but developments abroad, particularly the British Renown-class battlecruisers, led to the navy re-designing the...
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The Lexington-class battlecruisers were officially the only class of battlecruiser to ever be ordered by the United States Navy. While these six vessels...
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The Admiral-class battlecruisers were to have been a class of four British Royal Navy battlecruisers built near the end of World War I. Their design began...
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originally to have been eight of the class, but two were later redesigned, becoming the Renown-class battlecruisers, while the other, which was to have...
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HMS Repulse (1916) (category Renown-class battlecruisers)
two Renown-class battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. Originally laid down as an improved version of the Revenge-class battleship...
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war in the Pacific, and Renown survived the war to be scrapped in 1948. The Invincible-class ships were the first battlecruisers in the world. The design...
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battlecruisers. Royal Navy last battlecruiser, HMS Renown was decommissioned in 1945, following World War II. United States Navy two Alaska-class battlecruisers...
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The Scharnhorst class was a class of German battleships (or battlecruisers) built immediately prior to World War II. The first capital ships of Nazi Germany's...
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was a Royal Sovereign-class battleship launched in 1892 and sold in 1911. HMS Repulse (1916) was a Renown-class battlecruiser launched in 1916 and sunk...
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Queen Elizabeth-class battleship Revenge-class battleship Nelson-class battleship King George V-class battleship Renown-class battlecruiser HMS Hood Heavy...
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Norway. On 5 April a large force of warships, escorted by the battlecruiser HMS Renown and the cruiser HMS Birmingham, comprising elements of Operation...
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J3 class battlecruiser was a design study conducted during the Royal Navy's 1921 Fleet modernization programme. As a follow-on to the Admiral-class battlecruiser...
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HMS Hood (redirect from Battlecruiser Hood)
(pennant number 51) was a battlecruiser of the Royal Navy (RN). Hood was the first of the planned four Admiral-class battlecruisers to be built during the...
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the two Renown-class battlecruisers by the Royal Navy during the war. The only new capital ships laid down during the war were the Admiral-class battlecruisers...
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place; including shipborne trials aboard the Renown-class battlecruiser HMS Repulse and the Queen Elizabeth-class battleship HMS Valiant carried out on behalf...
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Queen Elizabeth-class battleships HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Valiant Reconstructed Renown-class battlecruiser HMS Renown Illustrious-class aircraft carrier...
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on the Renown-class battlecruisers and Glorious-class "large light cruisers", but which served most notably as the main armament on Flower-class corvettes...
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HMS Tiger (1913) (redirect from Tiger class battlecruiser)
HMS Tiger was a battlecruiser built for the Royal Navy during the 1910s. The ship was the most heavily armoured British battlecruiser at the start of...
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Revenge-class battleship Renown-class battlecruiser HMS Hood battlecruiser Several very large capital ship designs, both battleships and battlecruisers, rendered...
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German battleship Gneisenau (redirect from German battlecruiser gneisenau)
alternatively described as a battleship and battlecruiser, in Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine. She was the second vessel of her class, which included her sister ship...
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HMS Incomparable (category Battlecruisers of the Royal Navy)
were standard on the Queen Elizabeth and Revenge-class battleships, and the two Renown-class battlecruisers; at the same time her deck and belt armour was...
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build battlecruisers: large capital ships with greater speed but less armor than dreadnought battleships. The first battlecruisers, the Invincible class, were...
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end of the war it became the sole Battlecruiser Squadron. The first two British battlecruisers of the Invincible class—Inflexible and Indomitable—were commissioned...
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allocated the Prince of Wales, the veteran Renown-class battlecruiser HMS Repulse, and the Illustrious-class aircraft carrier HMS Indomitable for air cover...
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