Brian James wrote: ↑Wed Feb 09, 2022 11:17 pm
Sailors on Dreadnought Battleship HMS Revenge pictured falling in, in preparation for field exercises in 1940.
Lovely photo, looks like Devonport with the coaling jetty to the right and across the get to St Budeaux to the left.
Jim
HMS Raleigh 1963 , HMS Collingwood 1963 & 67 , HMS Ark Royal 1964-7, HMS Undaunted 1968-71, HMS Victory (Fleet Maintenance Group) 1971-72, HMS Exmouth 1972-74
JEM, EM, OEM, LOEM, POOEL
Then 28 years in the Fire Brigade
Retired since 2002
Revenge Class Dreadnought Battleship HMS Ramillies pictured at Wellington, NZ in 1940. As part of the British Home Fleet, Ramillies arrived in New Zealand on December 31st 1939 and from 6th to 12th February 1940 she escorted Troop Ships carrying the First Echelon of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force to the Middle East.
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Revenge Class Dreadnought Battleship Archangelsk pictured on the Clyde...On May 30th 1944 she was transferred on loan to the Soviet Navy as Arkhangelsk in lieu of war reparations from Italy..She left Britain on August 17th 1944 as part of the escort for Convoy JW 59, which contained thirty-three merchant vessels. Six days later, while still en route, the convoy was attacked by U-boat U-711. The Submarine's captain, Hans-Günther Lange, incorrectly reported hits on Arkhangelsk and a Destroyer, though his torpedoes had exploded prematurely. Under the impression that they had crippled the Battleship, the Germans launched several Submarine attacks on the ship while she was moored in Kola. Anti-torpedo nets ensured that the attacks failed, however. The Germans then planned to use six Biber Midget Submarines to attack the ship, but mechanical difficulties eventually forced the cancellation of the plan. Regardless, Arkhangelsk had already departed Kola to patrol the White Sea by the time the Bibers would have arrived. A Soviet crew commissioned the ship on August 29th 1944 at Polyarny. Arkhangelsk was the largest ship in the Soviet fleet during the war. While in Soviet service, she was the flagship of Admiral Gordey Levchenko and was tasked with meeting Allied convoys in the Arctic Ocean and escorting them into Kola. Arkhangelsk ran aground in the White Sea in late 1947; the extent of damage, if any, is unknown. The Soviet Navy returned the ship to the RN on February 4th 1949 after the former Italian battleship RM Giulio Cesare was transferred to the Soviet Black Sea Fleet. The Soviet Navy had initially sought to avoid sending the ship back, claiming that she was not sufficiently seaworthy to make the voyage back to Britain. After an inspection by a Royal Navy officer, however, the Soviet Navy agreed to return the vessel in January 1949. Upon returning to Rosyth Naval Base, RN personnel thoroughly inspected the ship and found much of her equipment to be unserviceable. It appeared to the inspectors that the main battery turrets had not been rotated while the ship was in Soviet service, and were jammed on the centreline. As a result of her poor condition, she was sold for scrap. The ship arrived at Thos. W. Ward's scrapyard at Inverkeithing, Scotland, on May 18th to be broken up. The elevation mechanisms from her main battery gun turrets were later reused in the 250-foot Mk I radio telescope at Jodrell Bank.
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Pictured from Revenge Class Super Dreadnought Battleship HMS Royal Sovereign, sisters HMS Ramillies, Revenge and Resolution pictured in the Solent on July 17th 1935.
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The demise of Dreadnoughts.....Revenge Class Battleship HMS Royal Sovereign (foreground) pictured with Lead Ship, Battleship HMS Nelson being broken up at Thos. W. Ward scrapyard Docks at Inverkeithing in 1949.
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