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    The Renown class consisted of two battlecruisers built during the First World War for the Royal Navy. They were originally laid down as improved versions...
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    HMS Renown was the lead ship of her class of battlecruisers of the Royal Navy built during the First World War. She was originally laid down as an improved...
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    originally to have been eight of the class, but two were later redesigned, becoming the Renown-class battlecruisers, and another, which was to have been...
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  • ordered as additions to the Mackensen class, but developments abroad, particularly the British Renown-class battlecruisers, led to the navy re-designing the...
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  • Renown-class battlecruisers as emergency builds during the war. The only new capital ships laid down in the war were the Admiral-class battlecruisers...
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  • sailing cargo ship Renown-class battlecruiser, two Royal Navy ships of World War I HMS Renown, several ships of the Royal Navy AEC Renown, three different...
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  • HMS Renown (1916) was a Renown-class battlecruiser launched in 1916 and sold in 1948. HMS Renown (S26) was a Resolution-class submarine launched in 1967. She...
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    The Lexington-class battlecruisers were officially the only class of battlecruiser to ever be ordered by the United States Navy. While these six vessels...
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    HMS Repulse (1916) (category Renown-class battlecruisers)
    two Renown-class battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. Originally laid down as an improved version of the Revenge-class battleship...
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  • The Admiral-class battlecruisers were to have been a class of four British Royal Navy battlecruisers built near the end of World War I. Their design began...
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    HMS Hood (redirect from Battlecruiser Hood)
    (pennant number 51) was a battlecruiser of the Royal Navy (RN). Hood was the first of the planned four Admiral-class battlecruisers to be built during the...
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     Royal Navy last battlecruiser, HMS Renown was decommissioned in 1945, following World War II.  United States Navy two Alaska-class large cruisers were...
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    Courageous class consisted of three battlecruisers known as "large light cruisers" built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. The class was nominally...
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    Norway. On 5 April a large force of warships, escorted by the battlecruiser HMS Renown and the cruiser HMS Birmingham, comprising elements of Operation...
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  • the two Renown-class battlecruisers by the Royal Navy during the war. The only new capital ships laid down during the war were the Admiral-class battlecruisers...
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  • was a Royal Sovereign-class battleship launched in 1892 and sold in 1911. HMS Repulse (1916) was a Renown-class battlecruiser launched in 1916 and sunk...
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    The Scharnhorst class was a class of German battleships (or battlecruisers) built immediately prior to World War II. The first capital ships of Nazi Germany's...
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    HMS Incomparable (category Battlecruisers of the Royal Navy)
    were standard on the Queen Elizabeth and Revenge-class battleships, and the two Renown-class battlecruisers; at the same time her deck and belt armour was...
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  • Queen Elizabeth-class battleship Revenge-class battleship Nelson-class battleship King George V-class battleship Renown-class battlecruiser HMS Hood Heavy...
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    Queen Elizabeth-class battleships HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Valiant Reconstructed Renown-class battlecruiser HMS Renown Illustrious-class aircraft carrier...
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    sailed southwards. Wasp and its destroyers were met by the British battlecruiser HMS Renown (Captain Charles Daniel, commander Force W) and the destroyers...
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  • J3 class battlecruiser was a design study conducted during the Royal Navy's 1921 Fleet modernization programme. As a follow-on to the Admiral-class battlecruiser...
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    allocated the Prince of Wales, the veteran Renown-class battlecruiser HMS Repulse, and the Illustrious-class aircraft carrier HMS Indomitable for air cover...
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  • under construction. In 1915, the British Renown-class battlecruisers and in 1917 the American Tennessee-class battleships introduced anti-torpedo bulges...
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    place; including shipborne trials aboard the Renown-class battlecruiser HMS Repulse and the Queen Elizabeth-class battleship HMS Valiant carried out on behalf...
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    war in the Pacific, and Renown survived the war to be scrapped in 1948. The Invincible-class ships were the first battlecruisers in the world. The design...
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    on the Renown-class battlecruisers and Glorious-class "large light cruisers", but which served most notably as the main armament on Flower-class corvettes...
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    with bulges from 1914, beginning with the Revenge-class battleships and Renown-class battlecruisers. It also had its large monitors fitted with enormous...
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    build battlecruisers: large capital ships with greater speed but less armor than dreadnought battleships. The first battlecruisers, the Invincible class, were...
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    HMS Furious (47) (category World War I battlecruisers of the United Kingdom)
    HMS Furious was a modified Courageous-class battlecruiser built for the Royal Navy (RN) during the First World War. Designed to support the Baltic Project...
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