3-082-824 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Launch of H.M.S. Renown: broadside view, 1895. Photo by S. J. Allen. 'Another great battle-ship, whose ultimate cost will be £1,000,000, was launched at Pembroke Dock on May 8. This was the first-class battle-ship Renown, a twin-screw sheathed armour-clad of light draught, destined to pass through Suez Canal and for foreign work generally. Her dimensions are: Length between perpendiculars, 380 ft.; and extreme breadth, 72 ft. 4 in. Her load displacement is 12,350 tons, at which there is a mean draught of 26 ft. 9 in. All the vessel is of steel, except the stem, stern-post, and shaft brackets; the latter are of phosphor-bronze. The Renown was designed by the chief constructor, and was christened by Mrs. Balfour, the wife of the Captain-Superintendent'. From "Illustrated London News", 1895.