Explore: Renown (battle Cruiser)

BCS (less Renown) and, more distantly, the battleships of the 1st Battle Squadron to the operation. The German ships, four light cruisers of II Scouting

The battlecruiser (also written as battle cruiser or battle-cruiser) was a type of capital ship of the first half of the 20th century. These were similar

favour of the British when the battlecruiser HMS Renown closed the distance on the Italian cruisers and straddled Trieste with two salvoes, hitting it

Gibraltar with the aircraft carrier Ark Royal, the battlecruiser Renown and the light cruiser Sheffield on 23 May to take over escort duties from other ships

century, cruiser came to be a classification of the ships intended for cruising distant waters, for commerce raiding, and for scouting for the battle fleet

[1976]. The Battle-Cruiser HMS Renown, 1916–1948. Barnsley, UK: Pen & Sword Maritime. ISBN 978-1-84415-745-7. Stephen, Martin (1988). Sea Battles in Close-Up:

carrier Béarn, the British battlecruiser Renown, and French battleships Dunkerque and Strasbourg, and 16 cruisers were committed to the hunt. Force G, commanded

battlecruiser HMS Renown) by broadcasting a series of signals, on frequencies known to be intercepted by German intelligence. In fact, the two cruisers had been

Battleships HMS Duke of York, HMS Rodney and HMS Nelson Battle cruiser HMS Renown light cruisers HMS Bermuda, HMS Argonaut and HMS Sirius 17 Destroyers

He also ordered Repulse, along with another cruiser and a few destroyers, to head north and join Renown. At 23:00, as Forbes was just learning of the