HMS Ramillies Royal Sovereign Class Battleship
<body> <p>This page uses frames, but your browser doesn't support them.<br> <font SIZE="2">HMS RAMILLIES 'The Ram' was listed as a Revenge 'R' Class Battleship though this class was more often referred to as the Royal Sovereign Class.<br> She was laid down 12th November 1913, launched 12th September 1916 and completed in September 1916 and commissioned into the Royal Navy. <br> Her sister ships were HMS ROYAL SOVEREIGN, HMS REVENGE, HMS RESOLUTION and the ill-fated HMS ROYAL OAK (Torpedoed and Sunk, Scapa Flow 14th October 1939 with the loss of 800 lives). <br> Three more ships of this class were projected these were to be Resistance, Renown and Repulse, the latter two eventually emerged as battlecruisers.</font></p> <font SIZE="2"><p>Unlike the similar but slightly larger ships of the 'Queen Elizabeth' Class Battleship, Ramillies and the rest of her sisters did not receive any major rebuilding work between the wars. <br> At the outbreak of the Second World War the class was near obsolete due to their rather slow speed and lack of anti-aircraft armaments, <br> however this did not stop the ship from seeing a great deal action. The ‘Ram’ was finally sold for scrapping on 20th March 1948 at the end of the Battleship age.</font></p> <p> </p> </body>