Allied Warships
HMS Revenge (06)
Battleship of the Royal Sovereign class
HMS Revenge during the Second World War.
| Navy | The Royal Navy |
| Type | Battleship |
| Class | Royal Sovereign |
| Pennant | 06 |
| Built by | Vickers (Barrow-in-Furness, U.K.) |
| Ordered | |
| Laid down | 22 Dec 1913 |
| Launched | 29 May 1915 |
| Commissioned | 1 Feb 1916 |
| End service | |
| Loss position | |
| History | Sold in July 1948 to T.W. Ward, arrived at Inverkeithing on 5 September 1948 for scrapping. Commanding Officers: Capt. Llewellyn Vaughan Morgan, CBE, MVO, DSO, RN Capt. Gervase Boswell Middleton, CBE, RN Capt. St. John Cronyn, DSO, RN HMS Revenge is not listed as active unit in the December 1943 Navy List |
Commands listed for HMS Revenge (06)
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| Commander | From | To | |
| 1 | Capt. Ernest Russell Archer, RN | 10 Jul 1939 | Jul 1941 |
| 2 | Capt. Llewellyn Vaughan Morgan, DSC, RN | Jul 1941 | Jan 1943 |
| 3 | Capt. Gervase Boswell Middleton, RN | Jan 1943 | Jul 1943 |
| 4 | Capt. St. John Cronyn, DSO, RN | Jul 1943 | ??? |
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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.