HMS "Royal Oak" was one of how many, "Revenge"-class battleships, built for the Royal Navy during the First World War?
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HMS Royal Oak (08) HMS "Royal Oak" was one of five "Revenge"-class battleship s built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. Launched in 1914 and completed in 1916, "Royal Oak" first saw combat at the Battle of Jutland as part of the Grand Fleet. In peacetime, she served in the Atlantic, Home and Mediterranean fleets, more than once coming under accidental attack. The ship drew worldwide attention in 1928 when her senior officers were controversially court-martialled. Attempts to modernise "Royal Oak" throughout her 25-year career could not fix her fundamental lack of speed and by the start of the Second World War, she was no longer suited to front-line duty.
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Revenge-class battleship The Revenge"-class battleships (listed as Royal Sovereign" class in several editions of "Jane's Fighting Ships", as with the 1919 and 1931 editions, and sometimes also known as the "R" class) were five battleships of the Royal Navy, ordered as the First World War loomed, and launched in 1914–16. There were originally to have been eight of the class, but two were later redesigned, becoming the "Renown"-class battlecruiser s, while the other, which was to have been named HMS "Resistance", was cancelled.
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Centurion-class battleship The "Centurion"-class battleships were second-class pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy in the 1890s. They were designed for service on distant stations.
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HMS Aboukir (1900) HMS "Aboukir" was a "Cressy"-class armoured cruiser built for the Royal Navy around 1900. Upon completion she was assigned to the Mediterranean Fleet and spent most of her career there. Upon returning home in 1912, she was placed in reserve. Recommissioned at the start of the First World War, she played a minor role in the Battle of Heligoland Bight a few weeks after the beginning of the war. "Aboukir" was sunk by the German submarine "U-9", together with two of her sister ships, on 22 September 1914; 527 men of her complement died.
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HMS R12 HMS "R12" was one of 10 R-class submarine built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. The boat was not completed before the end of the war and was sold for scrap in 1923.
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Kaiser-class battleship The "Kaiser" class was a class of five battleships that were built in Germany prior to World War I and served in the Imperial German Navy during the war. They were the third class of German dreadnoughts, and the first to feature turbine engines and superfiring turrets. The five ships were "Kaiser" , "Friedrich der Grosse" , "Kaiserin" , "Prinzregent Luitpold" , and "König Albert" . As was usual for German battleships of the period, the "Kaiser" class mounted main guns that were smaller than those of their British rivals: 30.5 cm , compared to the 34.3 cm guns of the British "Orion" class .
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HMS Ulysses (1917) HMS "Ulysses" was a Royal Navy modified R-class destroyer constructed and then operational in the First World War.
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HMS Earl of Peterborough (1915) HMS "Earl of Peterborough" was a First World War Royal Navy "Lord Clive"-class monitor , named after Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of Peterborough, a British general of the War of the Spanish Succession who fought in Spain. The ship's original 12" main battery was stripped from an obsolete "Majestic"-class battleship , the HMS "Mars" .
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King George V-class battleship (1911) The "King George V"-class battleships were a group of four dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy (RN) in the early 1910s that were sometimes termed super-dreadnoughts. The sister ships spent most of their careers assigned to the 2nd Battle Squadron of the Home and Grand Fleets, sometimes serving as flagships. In October 1914, "Audacious" struck a mine and sank. Aside from participating in the failed attempt to intercept the German ships that had bombarded Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby in late 1914, the Battle of Jutland in May 1916 and the inconclusive Action of 19 August, the surviving ships' service during the First World War generally consisted of routine patrols and training in the North Sea.
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HMS Thunderer (1872) HMS "Thunderer" was one of two "Devastation"-class ironclad turret ships built for the Royal Navy in the 1870s. She suffered two serious accidents before the decade was out and gained a reputation as an unlucky ship for several years afterward. The ship was assigned to the Mediterranean Fleet in 1878 and was reduced to reserve in 1881 before being recommissioned in 1885. "Thunderer" returned home in 1887 and was again placed in reserve. She rejoined the Mediterranean Fleet in 1891, but was forced to return to the UK by boiler problems the following year. The ship became a coast guard ship in Wales in 1895 and was again placed in reserve in 1900. "Thunderer" was taken out of service in 1907 and sold for scrap in 1909.
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Formidable-class battleship The Royal Navy's Formidable"-class battleships were an eight-ship class of pre-dreadnoughts designed by Sir William White and built in the late 1890s. The class is often further divided into a separate London" class, and the "London" class sometimes is divided further into a separate "Queen" class. Alongside the King Edward VII class, they were the largest class of battleships built, with eight complete vessels.
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HMS Neptune (1909) HMS "Neptune" was a dreadnought battleship built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century, the sole ship of her class. The ship was the first British battleship to be built with superfiring guns. Shortly after her completion in 1911, she carried out trials of an experimental fire-control director and then became the flagship of the Home Fleet. "Neptune" became a private ship in early 1914 and was assigned to the 1st Battle Squadron (BS).
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HMS Neptune (1874) HMS "Neptune" was an ironclad turret ship originally designed and built in Britain for Brazil, but acquired for the Royal Navy in 1878. Modifications to suit the Royal Navy took three years to complete and the ship did not begin her first commission until 1883 with the Channel Fleet. She was transferred to the Mediterranean Fleet in 1885, but refitted in Portsmouth in 1886–87. "Neptune" then became the coastguard ship for the 1st Class Reserve at Holyhead until 1893 when she was placed in in Portsmouth. While she was being towed to the breakers in 1903, "Neptune" unintentionally rammed HMS "Victory" , then serving as a training hulk for the Naval Signal School, collided with HMS "Hero" , and narrowly missed several other ships. She was scrapped in Germany in 1904.
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HMS Ossory (1915) HMS "Ossory" was an Admiralty M-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. She took part in the Battle of Jutland in 1918 and was sold for scrap in 1921.
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List of dreadnought battleships of the Royal Navy This is a list of dreadnought battleships of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom.
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HMS R10 HMS "R10" was one of 10 R-class submarine built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. The boat was not completed before the end of the war and was sold for scrap in 1929.
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Beagle-class destroyer The "Beagle" class (officially redesignated as the G class in 1913) was a class of sixteen destroyers of the Royal Navy, all ordered under the 1908-1909 programme and launched in 1909 and 1910. The "Beagles" served during World War I, particularly during the Dardanelles Campaign of 1915.
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Minotaur-class cruiser (1906) The "Minotaur" class was a three-ship class of armoured cruisers built in the first decade of the twentieth century for the Royal Navy. They initially served with the Home Fleet, generally as the flagships of cruiser squadrons. "Minotaur" became flagship of the China Station in 1910 and "Defence" served as flagship of the 1st Cruiser Squadron in the Mediterranean from 1912; "Shannon" remained at home as flagship of several different squadrons.
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Nembo-class destroyer The "Nembo" class was a class of destroyer of the Italian "Regia Marina" (Royal Navy). Six destroyers were built by the Pattison shipyard of Naples between 1899 and 1905, to a design based on the contemporary destroyers of the British shipyard Thornycroft. They were active in the Italo-Turkish War and in the First World War, where three were lost.
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HMS Essex (1901) HMS "Essex" was one of 10 "Monmouth"-class armoured cruisers built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. Upon completion in 1904 she was assigned to the 2nd Cruiser Squadron of the Channel Fleet. The ship was placed in reserve in March 1906 and recommissioned in 1909 for service with the 4th Cruiser Squadron on the North America and West Indies Station. In 1912, "Essex" returned home and was assigned to the Training Squadron of the Home Fleet. After a refit the following year, she rejoined the 4th Cruiser Squadron in early 1914.
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HMS R11 HMS "R11" was one of 10 R-class submarine built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. The boat was not completed before the end of the war and was sold for scrap in 1923.
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HMS Revenge (1892) HMS "Revenge" was one of seven "Royal Sovereign"-class pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy during the 1890s. She spent much of her early career as a flagship for the Flying Squadron and in the Mediterranean, Home and Channel Fleets. "Revenge" was assigned to the International Squadron blockading Crete during the revolt there against the Ottoman Empire. She was placed in reserve upon her return home in 1900, and was then briefly assigned as a coast guard ship before she joined the Home Fleet in 1902. The ship became a gunnery training ship in 1906 until she was paid off in 1913.