RN Battlecruisers: Renown Class

[Brian James]

Renown Class Battlecruiser HMS Repulse pictured departing HMNB Portsmouth in 1936.

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Renown Class Battlecruiser HMS Repulse pictured at Haifa in 1938.

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HMS Repulse and HMS Canterbury fitting out at John Brown&co, 1916

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Lead Ship, Battlecruiser HMS Renown pictured at Lyttleton Harbour in 1920.

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Renown Class Battlecruiser HMS Repulse pictured berthing at Honolulu on June 6th 1924.

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Part of the ships company on Battlecruiser HMS Renown at Lyttleton and the Prince Of Wales stepping ashore at Auckland during the Royal Visit on April 24th 1920.

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Lead Ship, Battlecruiser HMS Renown pictured in Waitematā Harbour in 1927.

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Lead Ship, Battlecruiser HMS Renown pictured in Waitematā Harbour, 1920.

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Lead Ship, Battlecruiser HMS Renown pictured at Port Melbourne in 1920.

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Renown Class Battlecruiser HMS Repulse pictured mooring to a buoy at Scapa Flow in 1939..*Note her starboard anchor has been 'catted', a long since forgotten seamanship exercise where the anchor was attached to the 'catting clumphead' (by what was known as a 'catting necklace'), in a position known as 'a cock-bill'. this enabled it's dis-connected anchor cable end to be used to attach to a buoy. Using a buoy 'jumper', ferried to the buoy in a whaler,( I have done this), to connect the mooring shackle to the buoy..