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Allied Warships

HMS Revenge (06)

Battleship of the Royal Sovereign class


HMS Revenge during the Second World War.

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeBattleship
ClassRoyal Sovereign 
Pennant06 
Built byVickers (Barrow-in-Furness, U.K.) 
Ordered 
Laid down22 Dec, 1913 
Launched29 May, 1915 
Commissioned1 Feb, 1916 
End service 
Loss position
 
HistorySold in July 1948 to T.W. Ward, arrived at Inverkeithing on 5 September 1948 for scrapping.

Commanding Officers:
Capt. Ernest Russell Archer, RN
10 July 1939 – July 1941

Capt. Llewellyn Vaughan Morgan, CBE, MVO, DSO, RN
July 1941 – January 1943

Capt. Gervase Boswell Middleton, CBE, RN
January 1943 – July 1943

Capt. St. John Cronyn, DSO, RN
July 1943 - ???

HMS Revenge is not listed as active unit in the December 1943 Navy List 


Noteable events involving Revenge include:

10 Oct, 1940
The British cruisers HMS Newcastle (Capt. E.A. Aylmer, DSC, RN) and HMS Emerald (Capt. F.C. Flynn, RN), with the British destroyers HMS Broke (Cdr. B.G. Scurfield, RN) and HMS Wanderer (Cdr. J.H. Ruck-Keene, DSC, RN) of the 17th DF and the Polish destroyers Garland (Cdr. K. Namiesniowski, ORP) and Burza (Cdr. A. Doroszkowski, ORP) act as a screen to the British battleship HMS Revenge (Capt. E.R. Archer, RN) during a bombardment of Cherbourg.

11 Oct, 1940
The battleship HMS Revenge sails from Plymouth with the destroyers HMS Javelin, HMS Jupiter, HMS Kelvin, HMS Kipling, HMS Jackal, HMS Jaguar and HMS Kashmir to shell the French port of Cherbourg.


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