1. Key

2. Royal Sovereign class

3. Centurion class

4. HMS Renown

5. Majestic class

6. Canopus class

7. Formidable class

8. London class

9. Duncan class

10. King Edward VII class

11. Swiftsure class

12. Lord Nelson class

13. See also

14. Notes

15. References

This is a list of the pre-dreadnought battleships of the Royal Navy and covers the ships between the monitors and the launching of {{HMS|Dreadnought|1906|6}} in 1906.

Key

Royal Sovereign class

The Royal Sovereign class was built for the Royal Navy in the 1890s. The ships spent their careers in the Mediterranean, Home and Channel Fleets, sometimes as flagships, although several were mobilised for service in 1896 with the Flying Squadron when tensions with the German Empire were high.

By about 1905–07, they were considered obsolete and were reduced to reserve and then used for other uses or scrapped. Only Revenge was still in service at the start of the First World War but was renamed Redoubtable in 1915 and reduced to a hulk as an accommodation ship.

Centurion class

HMS Renown

Majestic class

Canopus class

Formidable class

London class

Duncan class

King Edward VII class

Swiftsure class

Lord Nelson class

See also

• List of ship names of the Royal Navy
• List of early warships of the English navy
• List of battlecruisers of the Royal Navy
• List of dreadnought battleships of the Royal Navy
• Bibliography of 18th-19th century Royal Naval history

Notes

References

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• {{cite book|last=Archibald|first=E.H.H|title=The Metal Fighting Ship in the Royal Navy 1860–1970|location=London|publisher=Blandford Press|year=1971|isbn=0-7137-0551-5}}
• {{cite book|last=Brown|first=David|year=1972|title=Carrier Air Groups: HMS Eagle:Volume 1|location=Windsor, UK|publisher=Hylton Lacy|isbn=0850641039}}
• {{cite book|last=Burt|first=R. A.|title=British Battleships 1889–1904|location=Annapolis, Maryland:|publisher=Naval Institute Press|year=1988|isbn=0-87021-061-0}}
• {{cite book|last=Friedman|first=Norman|year=1985|title=U.S. Battleships|publisher=Naval Institute Press|location=Annapolis, Maryland|isbn=0-87021-715-1}}
• {{cite book|last1=Gardiner|first1=Robert|last2=Randal|first2=Gray|last3=Przemyslaw|first3=Budzbon|title=Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships, 1906–1921, Conway's Naval History after 1850 Series|publisher=Naval Institute Press|location=Annapolis, Maryland|isbn=0-85177-245-5}}
• {{cite book|last=Gardiner|first=Robert|year=1979|title=Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships, 1860–1905|publisher=Naval Institute Press|location=Annapolis, Maryland|isbn=0-87021-912-X}}
• {{cite book |last1=Gardiner|first1=Robert|last2=Lambert|first2=Andrew|title=Steam, Steel and Shellfire: The Steam Warship 1815–1905-Conway's History of the Ship|publisher=Book Sales|location=Edison, New Jersey|year=2001|isbn=978-0-7858-1413-9}}
• {{cite book|last1=Ireland|first1=Bernard|year=1997|title=Jane's War at Sea, 1897–1997|publisher=Harper Collins|location=London|isbn=0-00-472065-2}}
• {{cite book|last=Keegan|first=John|title=The First World War|publisher=Pimlico|year=1999|isbn=0-7126-6645-1|location=London}}
• {{cite book |last=Kennedy |first=Paul M. |title=The Rise and Fall of British Naval Mastery|publisher=Penguin|location=London |year=1983 |isbn=0-333-35094-4}}
• {{cite book|last=Maiolo|first=Joseph A|title=The Royal Navy and Nazi Germany, 1933–39: a Study in Appeasement and the Origins of the Second World War|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|location=Basingstoke, Hampshire|year=1998|isbn=0-312-21456-1}}
• {{cite book|last=Parkinson|first=Roger|year=2008|title=The late Victorian Navy: the Pre-Dreadnought Era and the Origins of the First World War|publisher=Boydell Press|location=Woodbridge, Suffolk|isbn=1-84383-372-7}}
• {{cite book|title=Purnell's Illustrated Encyclopedia of Modern Weapons and Warfare (Part work 1978–1979)|location=London|publisher=Phoebus}}
• {{cite book|last=Roberts|first=John|title=Warship, Volume 3|publisher=Naval Institute Press|year=1989|location=Annapolis, Maryland|isbn=0-85177-204-8}}
• {{cite book|last=Sandler|first=Stanley|year=2004|title=Battleships: an Illustrated History of their Impact|publisher=ABC-CLIO|location=Santa Barbara, CA|isbn=1-85109-410-5}}
• {{cite book|last=Sondhaus|first=Lawrence|year=2001|title=Naval warfare, 1815–1914, Volume 2000, Warfare and History|publisher=Routledge|isbn=0-415-21478-5|location=New York}}
• {{cite book|last=Sumrall|first=Robert|title=The Battleship and Battlecruiser|publisher=Conway Maritime|location=London|isbn=0-85177-607-8|year=1973}}
• {{cite book|last2=Wright|first2=Paul|last1=Konstam|first1=Angus|year=2009|title=British Battleships 1939–45 1: Queen Elizabeth and Royal Sovereign Classes, Volume 154 of New Vanguard|publisher=Osprey Publishing|location=Oxford|isbn=1-84603-388-8}}

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