HMS Renown (1895)
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| Class overview | |
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| Operators: |
 Royal Navy
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| Preceded by: | Centurion class |
| Succeeded by: | Majestic class |
| Built: | 1893–97 |
| In service: | 1897–1913 |
| Planned: | 1 |
| Completed: | 1 |
| Scrapped: | 1 |
| History | |
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| Name: | HMS Renown |
| Builder: | Pembroke Dockyard |
| Cost: | £751,206 |
| Laid down: | 1 February 1893 |
| Launched: | 8 May 1895 |
| Completed: | January 1897 |
| Decommissioned: | 31 January 1913 |
| Struck: | 31 January 1913 |
| Nickname(s): | "The Battleship Yacht" |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap, 1 April 1914 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Pre-dreadnought battleship |
| Displacement: | 12,865 long tons (13,071 t) (deep load) |
| Length: | 412 ft 3 in (125.7 m) (o.a.) |
| Beam: | 72 ft 4 in (22.0 m) |
| Draught: | 27 ft 3 in (8.3 m) (deep load) |
| Installed power: | 10,000 indicated horsepower (7,500 kW) |
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| Speed: | 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph) |
| Range: | 8,500 nmi (15,700 km; 9,800 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
| Complement: | 651–674 |
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HMS Renown was a second-class predreadnought battleship built for the Royal Navy in the early 1890s. Intended to command cruiser squadrons operating on foreign stations, the ship served as the flagship of the North America and West Indies Station and the Mediterranean Fleet early in her career. Becoming obsolete as cruiser speeds increased, Renown became a royal yacht and had all of her secondary armament removed to make her more suitable for such duties. She became a stoker's training ship in 1909 and was listed for disposal in 1913. The ship was sold for scrap in early 1914.
Production of a new 12-inch gun was behind schedule and the three battleships planned for the 1892 Naval Programme that were intended to use the new gun had to be delayed. In their stead, an improved Centurion-class battleship design was chosen to keep the workers at Pembroke Dockyard fully employed. No formal requirement for a second-class battleship suitable for use as the flagship on foreign stations or to reinforce cruiser squadrons existed at the time, but the decision to build the ship was strongly influenced by the views of the Controller of the Navy, Rear Admiral John A. "Jacky" Fisher and the Director of Naval Intelligence, Captain Cyprian Bridge who favoured smaller ships with a smaller main armament and large secondary armament. They pressed for additional ships of this type as substitutes for the two other battleships originally programmed, but this was rejected by the Admiralty as there was no demand for additional second-class battleships.
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