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Alan Bennett
No. There was an HMS Rodney, a battleship named for a great British Admiral of the 1700s. There was an HMS Romney, but it was a minesweeper, a small auxiliary craft.
is it the HMS Dreadnought
Hood with with the battleship HMS Prince of Wales (later sunk by planes in the Pacific).
HMS Hood
HMS Warrior, a Royal Navy battleship, had a crew complement of around 705 officers and enlisted personnel during the mid-19th century.
Hood was a battlecruiser, not a battleship; about 45,000 tons.
The British battleship and battlecruiser HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse were sunk by land based bombers in the South China Sea on 10 December 1941; three days after Pearl Harbor. HMS Prince of Wales was history's first battleship sunk by aircraft while at sea (while fighting back).
To name a few: 1. HMS Hermes (aircraft carrier) 2. HMS Prince of Wales (battleship) 3. HMS Repulse (battlecruiser) 4. HMS Exeter (heavy cruiser)
Fighting each other; however Hood was not a battleship, she was a battlecruiser.
A new weapon was used. The Aircraft Carrier! The aircraft carrier replaced the battleship as a major weapon, following the sinking of the British Battleship HMS Prince of Wales, and Battlecruiser HMS Repulse, by Japanese aircraft on December 10, 1941. After this date, NO naval officer doubted the power of airplanes over the battleship.
Shore bombardment was provided by the elderly battleships HMS Warspite, HMS Ramillies, and USS Nevada, along with several Allied cruisers. Thousands of ships of other types participated, mostly to transport the invasion force across the English Channel, with destroyers and minesweepers to protect them.