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Pages in category "World War I naval ships of the United Kingdom" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
It became clear that the Royal Navy would not have been able to win the war without the support of the United States. [30] [31] The Royal Navy's losses during the war totalled around 40,000, including 34,600 killed and 5,100 wounded. In addition, there were 1,250 prisoners of war. [32] In 1914, the Royal Navy consisted of three fleets.
The 2nd Battle Squadron of the Grand Fleet in 1914. From left to right the ships are: King George V, Thunderer, Monarch and Conqueror. Not all the Grand Fleet was available for use at any one time, because ships required maintenance and repairs. At the time of the Battle of Jutland in May 1916, it had 32 dreadnought and super-dreadnought ...
Decommissioned 21 April 1948; museum ship: Thunderer Royal Navy: Orion: super-dreadnought: 22,274 15 June 1912 31 August 1926 Sold for scrap 6 November 1926 Thüringen Imperial German Navy: Helgoland: dreadnought: 22,808 1 July 1911 16 December 1918 Ceded to France 29 April 1920, scrapped 1923–1933 Triumph Royal Navy: Swiftsure: pre ...
The P class, nominally described as "patrol boats", was in effect a class of British coastal sloops.Twenty-four ships to this design were ordered in May 1915 (numbered P.11 to P.34) and another thirty between February and June 1916 (numbered P.35 to P.64) under the Emergency War Programme [2] for the Royal Navy in the First World War, although ten of the latter group were in December 1916 ...
This is a list of ships of the line of the Royal Navy of England, and later (from 1707) of Great Britain, and the United Kingdom.The list starts from 1660, the year in which the Royal Navy came into being after the restoration of the monarchy under Charles II, up until the emergence of the battleship around 1880, as defined by the Admiralty.
The C class was a group of twenty-eight light cruisers of the Royal Navy, and were built in seven groups known as the Caroline class (six ships), the Calliope class (two ships), the Cambrian class (four ships), the Centaur class (two ships), the Caledon class (four ships), the Ceres class (five ships) and the Carlisle class (five ships).
HMS Renown was the lead ship of her class of battlecruisers of the Royal Navy built during the First World War. She was originally laid down as an improved version of the Revenge-class battleships. Her construction was suspended on the outbreak of war on the grounds she would not be ready in time.