Of the seven battlecruisers to enter World War II, only one (HMS Renown) survived the conflict. The Battlecruiser Mistake for the U.S. Navy? The USN prioritized slow, well-armored battleships that ...

The battleship HMS Warspite was protected by an armor belt between the deck and waterline that was up to thirteen inches thick. Meanwhile, the battlecruiser HMS Renown had a maximum of just six ...

HMS Renown, being one such ... H.M.S. Renown, Bermuda”. The new battleship HMS Renown had just arrived in Bermuda on November 12 as the flagship for Admiral “Jackie” Fisher ...

In September 1943, returning to Britain from the Quebec Conference aboard the battleship HMS Renown, Winston Churchill called for a box of matches to be brought to the admiral’s cabin after ...

Chinese ship detained for hoarding British WWII ... The battlecruiser HMS Repulse leading other Royal Navy capital ships during maneuvers, circa the late 1920s. The next ship astern is HMS Renown.

I said the Royal Oak and Renown were lost. It should of course have been the sister ship to Renown, HMS Repulse. She was sunk by the Japanese in 1941. Thanks to all who corrected me.

With the Eastern Fleet in HMS Renown, 1944 ... the French joined us in the battleship Richelieu, and the fleet is getting together for an attack against the Japs, ...

With the Eastern Fleet in HMS Renown, 1944 Transcribed from a video recording From there on it gets more exciting, or more interesting, because it’s in the Tropics now.