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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Majestic class battleship
		The British Royal Navys pre-dreadnought Admiral-class battleships of the 1880s was a followed the pattern of the Devastation class in having the main armament on centre-line mounts with the superstructure in between.
		HMS Magnificent was one of the nine Majestic-class battleships of the Royal Navy (RN).
		HMS Triumph was a Swiftsure-class pre-Dreadnought battleship of the Royal Navy.
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	Royal Sovereign class battleship - Biocrawler
		The Royal Sovereign class was an eight-ship class of pre-Dreadnought battleships of the British Royal Navy.
		They were much bigger than the Admiral, Victoria, and Trafalagar classes that had preceded them, and when Royal Sovereign herself was completed she was the largest warship in the World.
		Royal Sovereign served in a number of fleets of the Royal Navy.
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	Royal Sovereign Class Battleship - HMS Royal Sovereign, Revenge, Resolution, Ramillies, Royal Oak
		The secondary guns were mounted further back than previous classes in an attempt to reduce interference from the sea.
		Whilst the Queen Elizabeth class were a special class these ships were the follow on to the Iron Duke class as a "bog standard" ship for the battle line.
		The armament was the same as the Queen Elizabeth class although the 6 inch guns were mounted further back.
	www.worldwar1.co.uk /battleship/hms-revenge.html (491 words)

	Battleship (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The typical first-class battleship of the pre-dreadnought era displaced 15,000 to 17,000 tons, had a speed of 16 knots, and an armament of four 12-inch guns in two turrets fore and aft with a mixed-calibre secondary battery in turrets amidships around the superstructure.
		Battleships had little impact on the destroyer and submarine Battle of the Atlantic, and most of the decisive fleet clashes of the Pacific war were determined by aircraft carriers.
		Battleships were the largest and most complex, and hence the most expensive warships of their time; as a result, the value of investment in battleships has always been contested.
	www.tocatch.info /en/Battleship.htm (9666 words)

	Royal Navy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Royal Navy is established under the royal prerogative and the head of the Royal Navy is the Lord High Admiral, the overall head of the Armed Forces is the British Sovereign with the two roles currently vested in the same individual, Queen Elizabeth II.
		During the 19th century the Royal Navy enforced a ban on the slave trade and the suppression of piracy.
		The Royal Navy also participated in the Gulf War, the Kosovo conflict, the Afghanistan Campaign, and the 2003 Iraq War, the last of which saw RN warships bombard positions in support of the Al Faw Peninsula landings by Royal Marines.
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	HMS Hood (1891) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This was seen as a vindication of the barbette/high-freeboard design in the rest of her class, and all subsequent British battleship classes had high freeboard.
		The upper 6 inch gun deck in the other Royal Sovereigns was enclosed in casemates in 1901-1902 replacing the original gun shields, but the stability of the Hood was considered insufficient for this modification.
		The intention had been for her to gradually settle on the seabed with her seacocks open but she took so long to sink that the tide turned and she started to be pulled out of position, and consequently explosives were quickly used to blow a hole in her hull.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Hood_(1891) (659 words)

	MaritimeDigital Archive Encyclopedia - Home > 003d Surface vessels (1905-1919) > Battleships - Super Dreadnoughts > ...
		Though the class is often referred to as the Royal Sovereign class, official documents of 1914–1918 refer to the class as the Revenge class.
		In common with other Revenge class battleships, Ramillies suffered from having her secondary armament, the 6 in (152 mm) guns, located too low, on the main deck, with the result that in heavy weather they were liable to be awash.
		HMS Resolution was a Revenge-class battleship of the Royal Navy.
	www.ibiblio.org /maritime/media/index.php?cat=1069 (4865 words)

	HMS Hood
		The second HMS Hood was a Royal Sovereign class battleship built at Chatham, England and commisioned in 1891.
		She is at a depth of 4-18 metres (depending upon the tide) and keel-upwards - a common position for sunk battleships because the weight of the turrets tends to turn them over as they sink.
		In the inter-war years she was the largest warship in the World at a time when the British public felt a close affinity with the Royal Navy.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/hm/HMS_Hood.html (647 words)

	Royal Sovereign.C¥\”“.ß‘ã¢EÍ‘D—“TThe Encyclopedia of World ,Modern ...
		Royal Sovereign remained with the Channel Fleet through 1803, and was caught up in the Spithead mutiny of 1797, for which two of her crew were hanged.
		Royal Sovereign lost her mizzen and mainmasts during the engagement and suffered 141 killed and wounded.
		Royal Sovereign returned to duty in the Mediterranean the next year and remained on the blockade of Toulon until 1812, when she transferred to the Channel Fleet.
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	BRITISH NAVY -ROYAL SOVEREIGN CLASS
		All refitted with bulges, which in Ramillies were the first to be fitted to any battleship; they extended almost to level of battery, but have since been replaced.
		Refits: Ramillies and Resolution, 1926-27; Revenge, 1928; Resolution, 1930; Revenge, 1936-37; Resolution, 1937-38; Ramillies, 1938-39; Royal Oak, of this class, sund Oct. 14, 1939.
		Royal Sovereign transferred to Soviet Navy in 1944.
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	Royal Naval History - Royal Navy
		Originally there were to be eight battleships of the class, but two were later redesigned, becoming the "Renown Class" battlecruisers and one more, which was to have been named HMS Resistance, was cancelled.
		Generally as in the "Queen Elizabeth Class" excepting the turrets are 13 inches, the 6 inches armour is distributed more amidships along the upper deck, and the area covered by 13 inches along the water line is greater.
		The loss of life was heavy, of Royal Oak's complement of 1,234 men, 833 were killed that night or died later of their wounds.
	www.royal-navy.org /warships/period-11/index.php?name=3 (476 words)

	HMS Royal Oak
		HMS Royal ble designet som et slagskip i Royal Sovereign klassen og ble påstartet i Devonport i 1914, og sto ferdigstilt i 1916.
		Royal Oak had the dubious honour of becoming the first larger war ship to be sunk in the second world war on the night of 14.
		HMS Royal Oak, with her considerable anti-aircraft firepower was there as local air defence for Netherbutton radar station, shore-based AA not yet having being installed in quantity.
	www.skovheim.org /worldwide/uk-ireland/royaloak/royaloak.htm (1486 words)

	Federation Dreadnought Class Ship Models
		The pylon that holds the third warp nacelle on the Sovereign Class Battleship Variants is moved to the stern of the Royal class and tasked with holding the primary equipment/weapons/utility/mobile module.
		The polygons that served as the Quantum torpedo launcher on the larger battleships is enlarged and enlisted to serve as the primary module.
		The Sovereign is also extremely fast for its size, a breakthrough in propulsion owed to the collaborating Vulcan research delegation that joined the development team solely for the purpose of participating in its conception.
	www.strategyplanet.com /starfleet/shipyard/dreadnoughts_federation.html (1459 words)

	The Leaking Wreck Of H.M.S Royal Oak
		H.M.S Royal Oak was one of five Royal Sovereign Class battleships constructed for the Royal Navy between 1913 and 1917, the other four being Royal Sovereign, Resolution, Ramilies and Revenge.
		Royal Oak was completed with a displacement of 25, 750 tons and measured 580 feet in length with a beam of 88.5 feet and a draught of 27 feet.
		Royal Oak served in the Great War (1914-1918), fighting at the battle of Jutland, and was refitted between 1922 and 1924.
	www.btinternet.com /~warship/Feature/oak.htm (817 words)

	Navy News - News Desk - News - Warship wrecks gain greater protection
		It is believed she dived into mud and became trapped, as divers found her a week later at an bows-up angle of 35 degrees and with 22ft of her stern buried.
		HMS Royal Oak: The 25,750-ton Royal Sovereign-class battleship was sunk at anchor in Scapa Flow by Gunther Prien's U-47 on October 14, 1939, killing 833 officers and men as the ship sank in just half an hour.
		HMS Vanguard: Another Scapa Flow wreck, the 42,500-ton St Vincent-class battleship was destroyed by an internal explosion on July 9, 1917, leaving only three survivors from the 670 who were in her at the time.
	www.navynews.co.uk /articles/2001/0111/0001111201.asp (0 words)

	Royal Navy Pay and Conditions
		Ten years before, the largest battleship was the Inflexible, of 11,500 tons, which was the last of the "ironclads" to be rigged in the manner of the sailing ship.
		There was another quality which distinguished the Royal Sovereigns, and this was their greatly increased speed: they were built to steam 17.1/2 knots, and this was not a mere paper speed, for it was actually achieved by these vessels.
		The Majestics, of 14,900 tons, nine ships in all, came next; their armament was the same as the Royal Sovereigns in position; but they carried 12-inch guns in their turrets instead of 13.5, and two more 6-inch than the earlier ships.
	www.pbenyon.plus.com /RN/Battleship_Development.html (1112 words)

	HMS Royal Oak \| Research of the ship and it's sinking
		She was launched in the November of 1941.After undergoing a long fitting out she was eventually commissioned in the May of 1916.She was one of the five Royal Sovereign Battleships.
		The first Royal Oak was built in 1663, The name Royal Oak was derived from the tree in Boscobel Shropshire where Charles II and King of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland hid after the battle of Worcester in 1651.
		This was a means of fitting a new battleship design, these where tubeless watertight chambers or monstrous bulges to boost her buoyancy, lessen her tendency to excessive roll, minimize damage to her hull.
	www.freewebs.com /hmsroyaloak/theroyaloak.htm (1230 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Royal Navy
		The Royal Navy is the second largest navy in the world in terms of gross tonnage (the US Navy has the world’s largest) and is currently the second largest in western Europe in terms of personnel, after the French Marine Nationale.
		With improved cash flow, the Royal Navy began to develop the strategic ability to counteract the movements of other county's naval forces by the means of blockades, supported by unprecedented naval logistics, the gradual development of superior naval tactics and strategy and consistently high morale.
		The Royal Navy is established under the royal prerogative and the head of the Royal Navy, known as the Lord High Admiral, and overall head of the Armed Forces, is the British Sovereign.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Royal_Navy (4946 words)

	HMS Resolution
		Another Resolution was a Royal Sovereign-class battleship[?] laid down at Palmers November 29, 1913, launched January 14, 1915, and commissioned December 30, 1916.
		She was bombed at Narvik in May 1940, torpedoed at Dakar in September 1940, and served in the Indian Ocean during 1942 and 1943.
		The most recent HMS Resolution was the first of the Royal Navy's Resolution Class Ballistic Missile Submarines.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/hm/HMS_Resolution.html (768 words)

	Royal Sovereign Class Battleships 1890's
		Battleships of the Royal Sovereign Class of the 1890's.
		Photos and histories of the Royal Sovereign Class battleships including HMS Empress of India, HMS Ramillies, HMS Repulse, HMS Resolution, HMS Revenge, HMS Royal Oak and HMS Royal Sovereign.
		HMS Ramillies, of the Royal Sovereign Class Battleship of the Royal Navy.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /royal_sovereign_class1.htm (0 words)

	Victory I-class Star Destroyer - Wookieepedia, the Star Wars Wiki (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Victory I-class Star Destroyer, also known as the Victory I-class Destroyer or Victory I-class heavy frigate, was a warship designed for planetary defense, planetary assault, ground troop support, and ship-to-ship combat.
		It was used by the Galactic Republic during the mid-Clone Wars and later by the Galactic Empire during the Galactic Civil War.
		Victory I-class Star Destroyers were deployed to defend Sector 0 against the Techno Union's fleet of Bulwark-class Mark I battlecruisers, which had escaped the blockade of Foerost.
	starwars.wikia.com /wiki/Victory_I-class_Star_Destroyer (1318 words)

	Modern Naval Craft (Site not responding. Last check: )
		First built under the 1912 estimates as a unit of the Queen Elizabeth class of five ships, the Warspite was completed at Devonport on March 1915, and was in action at Jutland.
		Five ships of this class were projected under the 1913-14 estimates, and were all completed and commissioned during the Great War, at an average cost of £2,500,000.
		This class, numbering two ships, is a modification of the three-funnelled Dorsetshire type which preceded it, being 1,585 tons lighter.
	www.sensato.com /1921/13cards.htm (447 words)

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		As such, the class was meant to be part of the line of battle, which was the traditional mission of all battleships of the Royal Navy.
		He insisted that the battleships be given entirely oil fired machinery rather than the original mixed coal and oil fired propulsion system.
		The resulting battleships, with their single funnel and tripod foremast, had a most impressive appearance and came to characterize the British battleline between the wars.
	steelnavy.com /WSWRoyalOak.htm (2929 words)

	St Magnus Cathedral
		HMS Royal Oak was a Royal Sovereign Class battleship that was sunk in Scapa Flow on the 13th of October 1939.
		There is a memorial to the men who lost their lives on the Royal Oak in the north choir aisle of St Magnus Cathedral.
		The memorial incorporates a plaque, a book which records the names of all the men lost, and the bell of HMS Royal Oak which was recovered from the wreck.
	sites.scran.ac.uk /stmagnus/smc036.htm (116 words)

	The Battleship Kongo
		Battleships had always required masts for spotting, range finding, and fire control, but the need for height increased as possible ranges of targets increased and eyeballing was replaced by heavy optical equipment.
		The Royal Navy was the first to go simply for a solid superstructure, a "Queen Anne's castle." The Japanese tripods evolved into the equivalent, and the United States followed suit with the battleships built in the 1930's.
		The class of 1910, when the Kongô and Hiei were planned, survives today in the battleship Texas, as strange to modern eyes as a dinosaur, on public view at the San Jacinto Battlefield, outside Houston, Texas.
	www.friesian.com /kongo.htm (6807 words)

	HMS Royal Sovereign 1892 : Ships : History : Royal Navy
		The seven Royal Sovereign first-class battleships, which became the template for capital ships until the revolutionary HMS Dreadnought in 1906, embodied this new policy.
		During her career Royal Sovereign served in the Channel Squadron and the Mediterranean Fleet.
		Since a large number of the class were built, the Royal Sovereigns operated in uniform squadrons greatly increasing their effectiveness.
	www.royal-navy.mod.uk /server?show=nav.3908&outputFormat=print (697 words)

	History : HMS Vengeance : Ballistic Submarines (SSBN) : Submarine Service : Operations and Support : Royal Navy
		The first ironclad HMS Vengeance was the Canopus class battleship built by Vickers in Barrow and commissioned July 25th, 1899.
		Battleship to carrier, the last ship a Colossus class light Fleet carrier, was built in 1944 at Swan Hunter and entered service shortly before the end of WW II.
		Transferred to the Royal Australian Navy between 1952 and 1955, she was eventually sold to the Brazilian Navy in 1956, re-commissioning in 1960 as Minas Gerais.
	www.royal-navy.mod.uk /server/show/nav.2424 (525 words)

	Royal Navy Losses In World War Two quiz -- free game
		I was a veteran Royal Sovereign class battleship.
		I was a King George V class Battleship.
		I was an Erebus class Monitor and on February 22, 1941 I was in Benghazi harbour.
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	Battleships - British "Royal Sovereign " Class 1915
		The Revenge class battleships (Royal Sovereign, Royal Oak, Ramilles, Revenge, Resolution) were a smaller issue of the previous Queen Elisabeth class.
		To avoid the dependence of imported oil - coal and oil fired boilers were used for propulsion and therefore the ships suffered from their reduced endurance and top speed.
		Royal Oak - 1914-01-15: laid down; 1914-11-17: launched at Dockyard Deveport; 1916-05: commissioned and allocated to the IV.
	homepages.fh-giessen.de /~hg6339/data/uk/battleships/1915_cbb-revenge-class.htm (259 words)

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