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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.
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 ...
Soviet battleship Arkhangelsk; M. ... Sovetsky Soyuz-class battleship This page was last edited on 15 February 2024, at 15:57 (UTC). ...
11 October 1941: Convoy PQ 1 escorted by HMS Suffolk arrived in Arkhangelsk. [37] 17 October 1941: Soviet submarine Shch-402 sank the 682-ton Vesteraalen in Soroysundet. [38] 18 October 1941: U-132 sank the 3487-ton Argun at the entrance to the White Sea. [37] 30 October 1941: Convoy PQ 2 arrived in Arkhangelsk. Return convoy QP 2 departed on 2 ...
Additionally, the threat of these Soviet cruisers led the Royal Navy to keep its last battleship, HMS Vanguard, in commission until 1960, with the four King George V-class battleships kept in reserve until 1956 for similar reasons, as these five battleships were considered a surefire stopgap that would neutralise the threat of Soviet cruisers ...