HMS Renown (1916)
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HMS Renown was the lead ship of a class of three 26,500-ton battlecruisers of the Royal Navy, the other two being HMS Repulse and the cancelled Resistance.
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Steaming at high speed, circa 1916-17, as seen from the high-angle gun platform of another British warship.
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Photographed during World War I, probably in 1918
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Photographed circa 1918. Note aircraft carried atop her "B" turret.
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In the Pedro Miguel Lock, Panama Canal, 13 September 1920
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Photographed circa the later 1920s, following her 1923-26 refit.
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Leading other Royal Navy capital ships during maneuvers
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HMS Repulse firing her 15-inch guns during maneuvers off Portland, England, circa the later 1920s. The next ship astern is HMS Renown.
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Fremantle Harbour, Western Australia, 20th May 1927, during the visit of the Duke and Duchess of York to Perth.
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Fremantle, Western Australia, 24th May 1927, carrying the Duke and Duchess of York back to England.
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"Force 'H' off Gibraltar"
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Operating with other capital ships of the British Eastern Fleet in the Indian Ocean area, 12 May 1944.