HMS Revenge (S27)

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HMS Revenge transits the Rhu Narrows as she departs the Gareloch in May 1982
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HMS Revenge (S27) was the fourth of the Royal Navy's Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". ballistic missile submarines.

Construction

The four Resolution-class submarines were ordered on 8 May 1963, with Revenge,[lower-alpha 1] the fourth of the class, laid down at Cammell Laird's Birkenhead shipyard on 19 May 1965.[2] Construction of the two submarines being built at Lairds (Revenge and Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".) was much slower than planned, with poor performance by Cammell Laird and in particular its workers to blame. At one stage the Ministry of Defence considered towing the unfinished submarines to Barrow-in-Furness for completion by Vickers-Armstrongs.[3][lower-alpha 2] Revenge was launched on 15 March 1968.[2] She was formally commissioned on 4 December 1969.[4][5]

Design

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Polaris missile launch from HMS Revenge in 1983

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Sixteen tubes for Polaris A3 Submarine-launched ballistic missiles were carried, in two rows of eight.[4] The missiles had a range of Script error: No such module "convert".,[7][8] and each missile could carry three Script error: No such module "convert". nuclear warheads.[9] Defensive armament consisted of six Script error: No such module "convert". torpedo tubes.[4] The ship had a complement of 143 (13 officers and 130 other ranks), with two separate crews in order to maximise time at sea.[5]

Service

Following commissioning, Revenge underwent extensive sea trials and work-up, before sailing to the United States to carry out a test firing of a Polaris missile at the Eastern Test Range off Florida in June 1970.[10]

She was marked for disposal in 1992. She is currently being stored pending the identification of a disposal solution for all of the UK's decommissioned nuclear submarines, at Rosyth Dockyard,[11][12] on the northern shore of the Firth of Forth. She is docked down for maintenance and re-preservation approximately every 12 years.

Notes

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  1. ↑ At first it was planned to name the first of the class Revenge, but this name was seen by politicians, including Lord Jellicoe, First Lord of the Admiralty, as controversial, with Revenge suggesting "that deterrence would have failed". The name was re-allocated to the fourth of class, it being hoped that the controversy associated with the Polaris programme would have reduced by the time the submarine was launched.[1]
  2. ↑ The two submarines were known as "Gravy boats" by the workforce as they were seen as "easy money".[3]

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