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Illustration of HMS Revenge, the sister ship of Royal Oak, as she appeared in 1916. Royal Oakhad a length overallof 620 feet 7 inches (189.2 m), a beamof 88 feet 6 inches (27 m) and a deep draughtof 33 feet 7 inches (10.2 m). She had a designed displacement of 27,790 long tons (28,240 t) and displaced 31,130 long tons (31,630 t) at deep load.
Royal Oak was sunk at her moorings in Scapa Flow in October 1939 by a German U-boat, and two other ships of the class were torpedoed during the war; Resolution, hit by a Vichy French submarine off Dakar in 1940 and Ramillies, attacked by a Japanese submarine in Madagascar in 1943; both survived.
German submarine U-47 was a Type VIIB U-boat of Nazi Germany 's Kriegsmarine during World War II. [1] She was laid down on 25 February 1937 at Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft in Kiel as yard number 582 and went into service on 17 December 1938 under the command of Günther Prien. During U-47 ' s career, she sank a total of 31 enemy vessels ...
HMS Royal Oak (1809) was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1809, on harbour service from 1825, and broken up in 1850. HMS Royal Oak (1862) was an ironclad frigate launched in 1862 and sold in 1885. HMS Royal Oak (1892) was a Royal Sovereign -class battleship launched in 1892 and scrapped in 1914. HMS Royal Oak (08) was a Revenge -class battleship ...
HMS King George V lead ship of class in 1941 and the most advanced British battleships of World War II. Queen Elizabeth -class battleship [ 30 ] Revenge -class battleship [ 31 ] Nelson -class battleship [ 32 ] King George V -class battleship [ 33 ]
Royal Oak Royal Navy: Revenge: super-dreadnought: 29,150 1 May 1916 14 October 1939 ... Jane's Fighting Ships of World War II. London, UK: Random House Ltd. p. 320.
Pages in category "World War II battleships of the United Kingdom". The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. King George V-class battleship (1939) Revenge-class battleship. Nelson-class battleship.
Aircraft carried. 36. The Courageous class, sometimes called the Glorious class, was the first multi-ship class of aircraft carriers to serve with the Royal Navy. The three ships— Furious, Courageous and Glorious —were originally laid down as Courageous -class battlecruisers as part of the Baltic Project during the First World War.