HMS Royal Sovereign (pennant number 05) was a Revenge-class (also known as Royal Sovereign and R-class) battleship of the Royal Navy displacing 29,970...
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ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Royal Sovereign, while another was planned but renamed before being launched: HMS Sovereign of the Seas was...
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The Royal Sovereign class was a group of eight pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy in the 1890s. The ships spent their careers in the...
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HMS Revenge (1892) was a Royal Sovereign-class battleship launched in 1892. She was renamed HMS Redoubtable in 1915 and was broken up in 1919. HMS Revenge (06)...
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renamed HMS Victoria in 1887 and launched later that year. HMS Renown was to have been a Royal Sovereign-class battleship but she was renamed HMS Empress...
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Revenge-class battleship (redirect from Royal Sovereign 2 class battleship)
sometimes referred to as the Royal Sovereign class or the R class, consisted of five Dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy in the 1910s. All of...
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dreadnought battleships of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom. In 1907, before the revolution in design brought about by HMS Dreadnought of 1906, the United...
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Royal Sovereign-class battleship in service from 1893 to 1914. HMS Resolution (09), a Revenge-class battleship in service from 1915 to 1944. HMS Resolution (S22)...
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development of most of the pre-dreadnoughts. The first class, the Royal Sovereign class, comprised eight ships and introduced the standard armament layout...
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(including submarines as well as one historic ship, HMS Victory) in the Royal Navy, plus 13 ships of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA). There are also four Point-class...
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HMS Revenge was one of seven Royal Sovereign-class pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy during the 1890s. She spent much of her early career...
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Robert Bamford (category Royal Army Service Corps officers)
joined the Royal Marine Light Infantry and served in HMS Bulwark, HMS Magnificent, HMS Britannia, HMS Chester, HMS Royal Sovereign, and HMS Highflyer....
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HMS Hood was a modified Royal Sovereign-class pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Royal Navy in the early 1890s. She differed from the other ships...
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Timothy Laurence (category Graduates of Britannia Royal Naval College)
the Royal Yacht HMY Britannia, and from 1980 to 1982 he was Navigating Officer of the destroyer HMS Sheffield. He took command of the patrol boat HMS Cygnet...
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HMNB Portsmouth (redirect from HMS Nelson (shore establishment))
27,500-ton battleship Royal Sovereign in 1915. The only other launchings during the war were the submarines J1 and J2 in 1915, and K1, K2 and K5 in 1916...
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1814 on the Great Lakes. On his return (1816) he got the command of HMS Royal Sovereign and was knighted that year. He became Commander-in-Chief, West Indies...
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HMS Resolution (pennant number: 09) was one of five Revenge-class battleships built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. Completed in December...
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1919, for "valuable services in H.M.S. "Royal Sovereign," 1st Battle Squadron." From April to June 1920, Shaw studied at HMS Dryad in Portsmouth as part of...
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Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood (category Royal Navy vice admirals)
separate lines, the one led by Nelson in HMS Victory, and the other by Collingwood in HMS Royal Sovereign. Royal Sovereign was the swifter sailer, mainly because...
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HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was ordered in 1758, laid down in 1759, and launched in 1765. With 246 years...
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HMS Warspite was one of five Queen Elizabeth-class battleships built for the Royal Navy during the early 1910s. Completed during the First World War in...
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Majestic-class battleship (category Ship classes of the Royal Navy)
Fisher, then the Controller of the Royal Navy, issued a request for a new battleship design based on the Royal Sovereign class, but that incorporated a recently...
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Bertram Ramsay (category People educated at Colchester Royal Grammar School)
KBE, MVO (20 January 1883 – 2 January 1945) was a Royal Navy officer. He commanded the destroyer HMS Broke during the First World War. In the Second World...
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HMS Revenge was the lead ship of five Revenge-class super-dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy during the First World War in the mid-1910s...
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others view them as a confused and unsuccessful design. The subsequent Royal Sovereign class of 1889 retained barbettes but were uniformly armed with 13.5-inch...
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2nd Battle Squadron (category Battle squadrons of the Royal Navy)
consisted of: HMS Royal Oak Flagship of Rear Admiral Henry Blagrove; Captain W.G. Benn; HMS Royal Sovereign Captain L. V. Morgan; HMS Ramillies Captain...
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The Naval General Service Medal (1915 NGSM) was instituted in 1915 to recognise service by the Royal Navy and Royal Marines in minor campaigns that would...
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Dudley Pound (category Knights Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order)
the Royal Navy as a cadet in the training ship HMS Britannia in January 1891 and was posted as a midshipman to the battleship HMS Royal Sovereign in the...
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Richard Bell Davies (category Military personnel from the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea)
lieutenant of HMS Lion in 1919–20; in charge of the Air Section of the Naval Staff 1920–24; and executive officer of HMS Royal Sovereign in the Atlantic...
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Ernle Chatfield, 1st Baron Chatfield (category 19th-century Royal Navy personnel)
he joined the battleship HMS Royal Sovereign, flagship of the Channel Fleet in May 1894. He attended the gunnery school HMS Excellent in 1895 and then...
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