HMS Renown, being one such vessel was launched in 1895 and ready for service in early 1897. One name associated with that ship and Bermuda was the Admiral of the Fleet John “Jackie” Fisher ...

In September 1943, returning to Britain from the Quebec Conference aboard the battleship HMS Renown, Winston Churchill called for a box of matches to be brought to the admiral’s cabin after dinner.

Buying a car would become near impossible for the average man in the street.” Roberts served on HMS Renown in the North ...

because we had 15” guns on Renown, that’s not 15” long,, its 15” diameter, the shells weighed three quarters of a ton for a start, so we were bombarding from about twelve miles ...

years after a #200m refit. Renown has not been back to sea since 1994, when serious problems developed with her nuclear reactor. No procedures have yet been agreed by the Ministry of Defence for ...

The battleship HMS Warspite, cruiser HMS Sheffield, and battlecruisers HMS Renown and Repulse have received experience boosters ahead of the event. Deploying them at specific event boss battles ...

We were on the way back from Canada in HMS Renown, it was October 43, Mary Churchill, now Lady Soames, as most people will know, she was a couple of years older than me, bless her, she had her ...

Meanwhile, the battlecruiser HMS Renown had a maximum of just six inches of armor. The consequences became evident at Jutland when three of seven British battlecruisers blew up, the victims of ...

It should of course have been the sister ship to Renown, HMS Repulse. She was sunk by the Japanese in 1941. Thanks to all who corrected me. On another note, as to ships that were once friends ...

because we had 15” guns on Renown, that’s not 15” long,, its 15” diameter, the shells weighed three quarters of a ton for a start, so we were bombarding from about twelve miles ...