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Hms Ramillies (1916) | olspan="2" align="center"| | | tyle="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|Career | style="background:navy;align:right;"|RN Ensign | | aid down: | | | aunched: | | | ommissioned: | | | ate: | Scrapped | | olspan="2" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|General Characteristics | | isplacement: | 28,000 tons standard 31,200 tons max | | ength: | 624 ft (190 m) | | eam: | 88 ft (27 m), later expanded to 102 ft (31.1 m) | | raught: | 28 ft (8.5 m) | | rmament: | Eight 15 inch (380 mm) guns in twin turrets
Fourteen 6 inch (200 mm) guns in single casemates
Two 3 inch (80 mm) guns in single mountings
Four 47 mm guns in single mountings
Four 21 inch (530 mm) submerged torpedo tubes | | ropulsion: | Steam turbines, eighteen boilers, four shafts, 40,000 hp (30 MW) | | peed: | 23 knots (43 km/h) | | omplement: | 997 | HMS ''Ramillies was a Revenge''-class battleship of the Royal Navy, named after the battle of Ramillies. The Ramillies was launched too late to see service at Jutland in World War One. She had no extensive modernization between the wars and so was semi-obsolete when the Second World War broke out. At times she could make little more than 18 knots. Nonetheless, Ramillies gave sterling service, doing everything from convoy escort to shore bombardment.The presence of this old battlewagon was sufficient to deter German battlecruisers from a convoy on one occasion. Ramillies was on convoy duty when the new German battleship Bismarck broke out into the North Atlantic after sinking HMS Hood, Britain's largest warship. Ramillies was southwest of Bismarck, and if she had elected to continue with her raid, Ramillies was all that the Royal Navy had to stop her from ravaging the sealanes off North America. See HMS Ramillies for other ships of this name. Ramillies
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