HMS Revenge was a Royal Sovereign-class pre-dreadnought battleship constructed for the Royal Navy in the early 1890s. Laid down on 12 February 1891 by Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company at Jarrow, she was launched on 3 November 1892 and completed on 22 March 1894 at a cost of approximately £954,825. The ship measured about 410 feet 6 inches in overall length, with a beam of 75 feet and a draught of 27 feet 6 inches. Displacing around 14,150 long tons at normal load, Revenge was powered by twin three-cylinder vertical triple-expansion steam engines, producing 11,000 indicated horsepower for a top speed of 17.5 knots, fueled by eight cylindrical boilers with forced draught. Her range was roughly 4,720 nautical miles at 10 knots. Revenge’s main armament consisted of four 13.5-inch (343 mm) breech-loading guns, mounted in twin barbettes fore and aft, supported by ten 6-inch (152 mm) quick-firing guns for secondary firepower. For close defense, she carried smaller quick-firing guns and torpedo tubes, originally mounting seven 14-inch torpedo tubes, though four were removed in 1902. Her armor scheme featured a waterline belt of compound armor 14 to 18 inches thick, complemented by transverse bulkheads, with the deck armor ranging from 2.5 to 3 inches, and heavily protected conning towers. Throughout her service, Revenge served various roles, including flagship of the Flying Squadron, and participated in the International Squadron during the Cretan uprising of 1897–1898, where she played a significant part in enforcing international intervention. She also served as a gunnery training ship from 1906 until 1913, and briefly as a coast guard ship. Recommissioned at the outbreak of World War I, she took part in coastal bombardments along Flanders, including the attack on German positions at Nieuwpoort, where she was hit twice but remained operational. In early 1915, Revenge was fitted with anti-torpedo bulges—being the first ship to do so operationally—and was renamed Redoubtable later that year. She continued active service bombarding German positions until she was relegated to an accommodation ship in 1916, remaining in that role until after the war. Ultimately, she was sold for scrap in November 1919 and dismantled by 1921. As the last surviving vessel of her class, HMS Revenge represented a significant step in pre-dreadnought design and naval tactics during her era.

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