RN Battlecruisers: Renown Class

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Schoolgirls pictured aboard Battlecruiser HMS Renown at Melbourne in 1920.
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Renown Class Battlecruiser HMS Repulse pictured at Wellington, NZ in 1924.
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Renown Class Battlecruiser HMS Repulse pictured anchored off Villefranche-sur-Mer on the Côte d'Azur c1938.
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Royal family pays a visit to Battlecruiser HMS Renown prior to her departure from Portsmouth for the Tour of the Americas by Prince of Wales (6th left, later Edward VIII). George V and Queen Mary are in the center, Prince Albert (later George VI) is 2nd left....August 5th 1919.
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Ammunitioning ship aboard Renown Class Battlecruiser HMS Repulse c 1917.
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Renown Class Battlecruiser HMS Repulse pictured as completed in 1916.
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Renown Class Battlecruiser HMS Repulse pictured fitting out at John Brown & Company Shipyards at Clydebank in 1916.
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Lead Ship, Battlecruiser HMS Renown pictured as she transits the Suez Canal in 1921.
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Lead Ship, Battlecruiser HMS Renown with Prince of Wales aboard, pictured in Waitemata Harbour, Auckland in April 1920. In early 1944, she was transferred to the Eastern Fleet in the Indian Ocean where she supported numerous attacks on Japanese-occupied facilities in Indonesia and various island groups in the Indian Ocean. She returned to the Home Fleet in early 1945 and was refitted before being placed in reserve after the end of the war. She was sold for scrap in 1948.
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Brian James wrote: Fri Sep 16, 2022 1:31 am Renown Class Battlecruiser HMS Repulse pictured fitting out at John Brown & Company Shipyards at Clydebank in 1916.
HMS Repulse is seen essentially complete at the East Wharf of the fitting out basin of John Brown & Company, Clydebank, on 12th August 1916.
Note the steel decks, the single 4in mounting behind ‘B’ turret and the dark coloured blast bags on the 15in guns. To speed construction, the fitting of teak decks was omitted. The extensive engine and boiler shops can be seen at the head of the fitting-out basin.
Despite the speed of her construction the yard maintained high levels of production on the other urgently required warships in the yard. Principally the cruiser Canterbury, four destroyers and two ‘E’ class submarines on the stocks as well as the battleship Barham and two destroyers fitting-out.
Between January and May 1915, 1,400 men were added to the total payroll at Clydebank which then stood at 10,668 including the Engine Works. Numbers continued to rise slowly thereafter, peaking on 6th October when 1,949 ironworkers were recorded working on Repulse.
The largest number of combined trades on Repulse was on 22nd December 1915, when a total of 2,841 men were employed exclusively on her.
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