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Name: REVENGE
Type: Battleship
Keel: 12/02/1891
Launched: 03/11/1892
Completed: 22/03/1894
Builder: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd
Yard: Jarrow
Yard Number: 656
Dimensions: 14150disp - 15580disp, 380.0 x 75.0 x 27.5(draft)ft
Engines: 2 x T3cyl (40, 59 & 88 x 51ins), 9000ihp
Engines by: Humphreys, Tennant & Co, Deptford, London
Propulsion: 2 x Screws, 17.5knots
Construction: Steel
Armament: 2 x 2 x 13.5ins, 10 x 1 x 6.0ins QF, 16 x 1 x 6pdr, 12 x 1 x 3pdr guns;
7 x 1 x 18.0ins torpedoes
History:
22/03/1894 British Royal Navy
08/1915 Renamed REDOUBTABLE
06/11/1919 Broken up
Comments: Member of the pre-Dreadnought Royal Sovereign Class of Battleships
08/1915: Renamed to free up her name for a new dreadnought battleship
06/11/1919: Sold for breaking up to TW Ward
06/11/1919: Broken up at Swansea and Briton Ferry


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