For other ships of the same name, see HMS Renown.
HMS Renown (S26) | |
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Career (UK) | |
Name: | HMS Renown |
Builder: | Cammell Laird, Birkenhead |
Launched: | 25 February 1967 |
Decommissioned: | 1996 |
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General characteristics | |
Class & type: | Resolution-class ballistic missile submarine |
Displacement: | surfaced 7,500 tons; submerged 8,400 tons. |
Length: | 425 ft (130 m) |
Beam: | 33 ft (10 m) |
Draught: | 30 ft 1 in (9.17 m) |
Propulsion: | 1 × Vickers/Rolls-Royce PWR.1 pressurised-water nuclear reactor, 27,500 shp (20,500 kW); Propeller. |
Speed: | surface - 20 kn (37 km/h); submerged - 25 kn (46 km/h) |
Range: | Unlimited except by food supplies |
Complement: | 143 (two crews) |
HMS Renown (S26) was the third of the Royal Navy's Resolution-class ballistic missile submarines.
Built by Cammell Laird and launched on 25 February 1967, she was decommissioned in 1996.
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