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HMS Ramillies Five ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS "Ramillies" after the Battle of Ramillies (23 May 1706):
HMS Ramillies (07) The "Revenge" class was equipped with eight breech-loading (BL) Mk I guns in four twin gun turrets, in two superfiring pairs fore and aft of the superstructure, designated 'A', 'B', 'X', and 'Y' from front to rear. Twelve of the fourteen BL Mk XII guns were mounted in casemates along the broadside of the vessel amidships; the remaining pair were mounted on the shelter deck and were protected by gun shields. The ship also mounted four 3-pounder () guns. Her anti-aircraft (AA) armament consisted of two quick-firing (QF) 20 cwt Mk I guns. She was fitted with four submerged torpedo tubes, two on each broadside.
HMS Ramillies (07) During the interwar period, "Ramillies" was lightened by having crushing tubes, wood and cement filling removed from her anti-torpedo bulges. By 1928, her anti-aircraft defences had been altered to four-4-inch quick firing Mark IV guns and her two forecastle deck 6-inch guns were removed.
HMS Ramillies (07) The new and modernised Japanese battleships under construction in the 1930s made , while the modernised Italian ships made and the new made . The German "pocket battleships" could achieve , while the battleships/battlecruisers and the made and the and the made . By 1939, "Ramillies" design speed of could no longer be achieved with her old machinery. Often was her top speed, although in an emergency she could sometimes make .
HMS Ramillies (07) But before this she was diverted from escort duties when the Admiralty became aware of the presence of the German "pocket battleship" in the Indian Ocean off Lourenço Marques (current Maputo, Mozambique) on 16 November 1939. "Ramillies" was detached at Aden and formed 'Force J' along with the battleship , and the aircraft carrier . The ships were sent south to intercept the German raider, but "Admiral Graf Spee" sailed back into the South Atlantic where she was brought to action in the Battle of the River Plate off Montevideo by 'Force H', the cruisers and , joined by from 'Force G'.