HMS Repulse
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Key facts
- Name
- Repulse
- Ordered
- 30 December 1914
- Builder
- John Brown & Company , Clydebank
- Laid down
- 25 January 1915
- Launched
- 8 January 1916
- Commissioned
- 18 August 1916
- Identification
- Pennant number : 34
- Motto
- Qui Tangit Frangitur Who touches me is broken
- Nickname s
- Repair
- Fate
- Sunk by Japanese bombers, 10 December 1941
- Class type
- Renown -class battlecruiser
- Displacement
- 27,200 long tons (27,636 t ) (normal) 32,220 long tons (32,737 t) ( deep load )
- Length
- 750 ft 2 in (228.7 m) p.p. 794 ft 1.5 in (242 m) ( o.a. )
- Beam
- 90 ft 1.75 in (27.5 m)
- Draught
- 27 ft (8.2 m)
- Installed power
- 42 × water-tube boilers 112,000 shp (84,000 kW )
- Propulsion
- 4 × shafts, 2 × steam turbine sets
- Speed
- 31.5 knots (58.3 km/h; 36.2 mph)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- shipwreck
- Operator
- Royal Navy
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Manufacturer
- John Brown & Company
- Conflict
- Battle of the Atlantic
- Image
- Renown-7.jpg
- Speed
- 31.7
- Significant event
- keel laying
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- Commons category
- HMS Repulse (ship, 1916)
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- HMS Repulse (1916)
- service entry
- 1916-08-18
- vessel class
- Renown-class battlecruiser
- pennant number
- 34
- different from
- HMS Repulse
- name
- HMS Repulse
- native label
- HMS Repulse
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