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HMS Royal Sovereign (pennant number 05) was a Revenge-class (also known as Royal Sovereign and R-class) battleship of the Royal Navy displacing 29,970 long tons (30,451 t) and armed with eight 15-inch (381 mm) guns in four twin-gun turrets.
Soviet battleship Arkhangelsk, formerly HMS Royal Sovereign, transferred to the Soviet Navy in 1944 and returned to the United Kingdom in 1949 Russian submarine Arkhangelsk (K-525) , an Oscar-class nuclear-powered submarine of the Soviet and Russian Navy in service from 1981 to 1993
British Battleships of World War Two: The Development and Technical History of the Royal Navy's Battleship and Battlecruisers from 1911 to 1946. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-0-87021-817-0. Smith, Peter C. (2009). Battleships at War: HMS Royal Sovereign and Her Sister Ships. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Maritime. ISBN 978-1-84415-982-6.
Arkhangelsk in 1944. HMS Royal Sovereign was loaned by the Royal Navy in 1944 in lieu of reparations from Italy. She was assigned to the Northern Fleet with the name of Arkhangelsk and used to escort convoys during the war. Returned to Britain in poor condition in 1949 when the USSR received the Italian battleship Giulio Cesare and sold for scrap.
Arkhangelsk [a] (Russian: Архангельск, pronounced [ɐrˈxanɡʲɪlʲsk]) is a city and the administrative center of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. It lies on both banks of the Northern Dvina near its mouth into the White Sea .
HMS Royal Sovereign (05) was a Revenge-class battleship launched in 1915. She was transferred to the Soviet Navy in 1944 and renamed Arkhangelsk , and in 1949 sent back to Britain and scrapped. MV Royal Sovereign , a cross-channel passenger boat owned by the New Medway Steam Packet Company, was requisitioned for use as a troop transport in 1939 ...
Denmark's government has proposed purchasing two new Arctic inspection vessels and increasing dog sled patrols to boost its military presence in Greenland, as U.S. President-elect Donald Trump ...
Convoy PQ 17 was an Allied Arctic convoy during the Second World War.On 27 June 1942, the ships sailed from Hvalfjörður, Iceland, for the port of Arkhangelsk in the Soviet Union.