HMS Repulse
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Key facts
- Name
- Repulse
- Ordered
- 30 December 1914
- Builder
- John Brown & Company , Clydebank
- Laid down
- 25 January 1915
- Launched
- 8 January 1916
- Commissioned
- 18 August 1916
- Identification
- Pennant number : 34
- Motto
- Qui Tangit Frangitur Who touches me is broken
- Nickname s
- Repair
- Fate
- Sunk by Japanese bombers, 10 December 1941
- Class type
- Renown -class battlecruiser
- Displacement
- 27,200 long tons (27,636 t ) (normal) 32,220 long tons (32,737 t) ( deep load )
- Length
- 750 ft 2 in (228.7 m) p.p. 794 ft 1.5 in (242 m) ( o.a. )
- Beam
- 90 ft 1.75 in (27.5 m)
- Draught
- 27 ft (8.2 m)
- Installed power
- 42 × water-tube boilers 112,000 shp (84,000 kW )
- Propulsion
- 4 × shafts, 2 × steam turbine sets
- Speed
- 31.5 knots (58.3 km/h; 36.2 mph)
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- Image
- Renown-7.jpg
- Speed
- 31.7
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- service entry
- 1916-08-18
- pennant number
- 34
- name
- HMS Repulse
- native label
- HMS Repulse
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HMS Repulse was one of two Renown-class battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. Originally laid down as an improved version of the Revenge-class battleship, her construction was suspended on the outbreak of war because she would not be ready in time. Admiral Lord Fisher, upon becoming First Sea Lord, gained approval for her to resume construction as a battlecruiser that could be built and enter service quickly. The Director of Naval Construction (DNC), Eustace Tennyson-d'Eyncourt, quickly produced an entirely new design to meet Admiral Lord Fisher's requirements and the builders agreed to deliver the ship in 15 months. They did not quite meet that ambitious goal, but the ship was delivered a few months after the Battle of Jutland in 1916. Repulse and her sister ship Renown were the world's fastest capital ships upon completion.
Repulse participated in the Second Battle of Heligoland Bight in 1917, the only combat she saw during the war. She was reconstructed twice between the wars; a reconstruction in the 1920s increased her armour protection and made lesser improvements, while another in the 1930s was much more thorough. Repulse accompanied the battlecruiser Hood during the Cruise of the Special Service Squadron on a round-the-world cruise in 1923 to 1924 and protected international shipping during the Spanish Civil War in 1936 to 1939.
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