HMS Renown (72)

HMS Renown (72) History

July/August 1914 The start of the First World War (1914-1918) forced the Royal Navy to reconsider the pressing needs of the future. Designed as an improved Revenge-class ship, the two-man class battlecruisers were completely revamped in just one year - the Renown class, led by HMS Renown and complemented by sister ship HMS Repulse, was born.

HMS Renown became a gambler in the second half of World War I and managed its presence between the two world wars, eventually serving in World War II. Her story ended shortly thereafter as the Cold War between East and West (1947-1991) took root - although she could claim to have survived both world wars, and the instability between them sex, despite her origins in World War I.

During this period in the history of naval warfare, battlecruisers were the main component of the fleet, a product of the armored cruisers that appeared in the 1870s. Classified as capital ships, they have similar armament and dimensions to frontline battleships while being inexpensive to build.

However, in order to make them faster than their battleship brethren, these types complete with reduced armor protection, a compromise that is worth noting - but is considered necessary for the desired speed, as battlecruisers are required to actively track older armored cruisers and Send them powerful weapons under the sea.

HMS Renown (72) Ordered 30 December 1914 and awarded to Gowan Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company. Her keel was laid on 25 January 1915 and launched on 4 March 1916. Her commission took place on September 20, 1916, two years into the war.

The warship fought under the motto "Guardian of the Ancients".

After decommissioning, HMS Renown and HMS Repulse were the last battlecruisers commissioned by the Royal Navy.

At the time of construction, the ship displaces 27,600 tons under normal load and 32,740 tons under full load. Dimensions include a length of 794 feet, a beam of 90 feet and a draft of 27 feet. The installed power is 42 water tube boiler units feeding 2 112,000 hp steam turbines on 2 shafts under the stern.

This arrangement enables the vessel to travel at speeds of up to 32.5 knots and has a range of 4,600 miles.

Her shape was consistent with the ship design of the time, but these lines changed as she rebuilt the ship twice during her maritime career. The forecastle is largely free of obstructions, except that the first two main towers and the third are located aft of the superstructure.

The superstructure aft of the forward gun included bridge sections and various communications and main mast structures. As part of the main superstructure, there are two smoke extraction funnels amidships.

The hull is tapered at the bow and thinner at the stern, while the sides of the hull are raised amidships as an anti-torpedo measure.

The armament is concentrated in the main gun's 6 x 15 in (381 mm) gun, spread over three main two-gun turrets. At the rear are 15 x 4" (102 mm) guns mounted on five three-armed turrets and two other 4" guns.

The warship also carried 2 x 3" (76 mm) guns as an anti-aircraft measure (single gun) and 2 x 21" (533 mm) torpedo tubes.

Armor protection ranges from 6" thick on the belt and 2/5" on the deck to 7" on the turret and 10" on the conning tower. The bulkheads were protected up to 4 inches, and the main turrets had up to 9 inches of plate armor.

The crew numbered 953, but wartime demands brought this total to 1,223 by 1919.

The well-armed and maneuverable battleship HMS Prestige caught people's attention when it appeared in 1916. She and her sister are highly rated for speed and are among the fastest capital ships available to the Navy.

In July-August 1914, while the Renown was still under construction, the First World War broke out. This forced the Admiralty to halt her construction, arguing that she would simply not be ready in time for war. In fact, the weapons and storage equipment had to be thoroughly installed and tested, and the machines went through their paces over the course of several months to ensure reliability and efficiency. All except the necessary training for all ship personnel (gunners, support personnel, etc.).

Following the appointment of Admiral John Fisher as First Sea Lord, construction of the warship resumed quickly and was completed quickly, with a revised design completed within a short period of time.

HMS Renown was actively sailing until the end of 1916, although by then the decisive Battle of Jutland (31 May-1 June 1916) had already taken place off the coast of Denmark and Renown had been released back Get better armor protection around the dock. The Battle of Jutland was the largest naval battle of the war, and the only one involving direct contact between enemy warships.

Both sides were victorious, with more than 200 ships engaged in close combat.

Although the war continued until the armistice in November 1918, HMS Renown saw no direct combat action in the wreckage. She survived major post-war damage, and her armor protection was improved in 1918 and 1923. In the 1930s, as war loomed again on the European horizon, the warship underwent a more in-depth rebuilding effort to maintain a viable combat platform for the foreseeable future.

In 1936, she was redesigned as a fast carrier escort.

A 1939 rebuild simplified her machine to include 8 boiler units and 4 steam turbines driving 4 shafts. Speed ??is reduced to 31 knots, but range is increased to 6,580 miles. Crew size was slightly reduced to 1,200.

The 15" main gun batteries were retained, but secondary firepower was now a 20 x 4.5" Dual Purpose (DP) gun mounted on 10 dual gun mounts. 24 x 2-pounder guns were mounted in three eight-barrel positions for anti-aircraft operations.

Torpedo weapons have been completely removed from Reborn Prestige.

Belt guard increased to 9" and deck to 5". Turrets up to 9 inches, bulkheads up to 4 inches, and conning towers protected by armor up to 10 inches. Unlike her earlier incarnations, HMS Renown is not equipped to handle up to 4 seaplane (retrievable) aircraft for over-the-horizon and artillery reconnaissance work.

A double-headed catapult was added to manage her launches, and a crane worked on her recovery.

When World War II (1939-1945) broke out on September 1, 1939, HMS Renown was immediately deployed to target trade raiders in the South Atlantic. Her first notable job was in the pursuit of the German "pocket battleship" Admiral Graf Spee, which ended her voyage in Uruguayan waters in December 1939. From April to June 1940, the HMS Renown participated in a failed attempt to save Norway from German conquest.

In 1941, she participated in the hunt for the KMS Bismarck, which helped remove one of the Germans' more powerful surface fighters from the war. From there, their goal was to escort and support Malta.

In 1942, she was stationed in home waters as part of the Home Fleet, but also served as a deterrent to the key Arctic convoys trying to supply supplies to the Allies to the east (i.e. the Soviet Union). In November of the same year, she participated in the Allied invasion of North Africa through Operation Torch.

The following year, HMS Renown became the vehicle for senior British officials, including Churchill himself. In early 1944, she was transferred to the Far East in the Indian Ocean (as part of the Eastern Fleet) for operations, with a focus on raids on Japan throughout the region, including Indonesia.

In early 1945, she was recalled to home waters and refitted, but the war reached Europe in May and the Pacific in August, so she was retained.

As her services were no longer needed and the war-weary world suffered another dramatic military retreat, HMS Renown was stripped of its wartime use in Fasland and her hull was scrapped on 19 March 1948.

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