Name HMS Revenge Commissioned 4 December 1969 Construction started 19 May 1965 Length 130 m | Laid down 19 May 1965 Decommissioned May 1992 Launched 15 March 1968 Draft 9.17 m | |
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Displacement surfaced 7,500 tons; submerged 8,400 tons. Similar HMS Repulse (S23), HMS Renown (S26), HMS Resolution (S22) | ||
HMS Revenge (S27) was the fourth of the Royal Navy's Resolution-class ballistic missile submarines.
Built by Cammell Laird and launched on 15 March 1968, 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, on the northern shore of the Firth of Forth. She is docked down for maintenance and re-preservation approximately every 12 years.
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