RN Battleships: Revenge Class

[Brian James]

Revenge Class Battleship HMS Resolution pictured at Torbay on August 8th 1939.

[Brian James]

Revenge Class Dreadnought Battleship HMS Ramillies pictured at Gibraltar.

[designeraccd]

RAMILLES before suffering a IJN torpedo hit while part of the force attacking Diego Suarez in 1942....... Also, down by the bow AFTER the midget sub torpedo hit.

"One of the midget submarines scored a hit on Ramillies just forward of her "A" turret on the port side. The explosion tore a large hole in the hull and caused extensive flooding, though damage control teams quickly contained it and prompt counter-flooding prevented her from listing badly. Still down by the bow after offloading most of her ammunition, she was nevertheless able to steam to Durban, South Africa, at a speed of 9 to 10 knots (17 to 19 km/h; 10 to 12 mph). There, she was inspected by the Constructor H. S. Pengelly, who noted that "although the vessel is now 26 years old and felt by most to be of little value owing to reduced size and slow speeds, the Ramillies is in exceptionally good shape, and I should wonder whether or not the capital ships of today with their lighter scantlings would survive a blow as well as this old girl, some 26 years after they were built"

Maybe the old Rs were worth something in WW2 combat? DFO

[designeraccd]

Here is a color board purporting to be the dazzle camo scheme RAMILLES wore during WW 1...........far more colorful than today's car and SUVs!!
DFO

[Pelican]

FASLANE REMEMBERS ROYAL OAK 81 YEARS AFTER TRAGEDY
14 October 2020
Sailors on the Clyde to one of the greatest naval tragedies in Scottish waters – 81 years ago today.

Battleship HMS Royal Oak was torpedoed in the Royal Navy’s wartime base at Scapa Flow by German U-boat U-47, sinking in a matter of minutes.

The disaster rocked the nation and Navy – many of the victims were boys, and Scapa was believed to be a safe haven.

A buoy in the vast natural harbour in Orkney marks the wreck site – the upturned, crumpled hull lies on the seabed just below the surface of the water – and has served as the focal point for acts of remembrance down the years (sadly, all survivors of the sinking have now crossed the bar).

And each autumn, frogmen from the Northern Diving Group based at Faslane descend to the remains of the Royal Oak to check the state of the hull, inspect for any fuel leaking, and replace the Royal Navy’s standard ‘hoisted’ by their predecessors 12 months earlier.

Except this year. Due to Covid, 2020 marks the first time since the ship’s bell was recovered back in 1982 that they’ve been unable to do so.

Petty Officer (Diver) Guy Rudkin, who had started planning this year’s visit to Orkney, was determined that the battleship’s tragic loss should not pass without commemoration and, with Chaplain Mark Noakes, organised a special service in Faslane.

CONTINUES, INCLUDING PHOTOS AT:
https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news-and-l ... remembered

[Brian James]

Revenge Class Battleship HMS Royal Sovereign pictured in the late '30s.

[designeraccd]

June, '44 and the RAMILLES "exercises" her 15" on the Normandy coast!! DFO

[Brian James]

Lead Ship,Dreadnought Battleship HMS Revenge.

[Brian James]

Lead Ship,Dreadnought Battleship HMS Revenge pictured at Monte Carlo c1935.

[Dabtoe46]

Cracking photo Brian, location is actually Villefranche.
Regards, Ken H.