HMS Repulse (1916)

Type:
Battlecruiser
Class:
Builder:
John Brown & Company
Clydebank, Scotland
Pennant Number:
34
Ordered:
December 29, 1914
Launched:
January 8, 1916
Keel Laid:
January 25, 1915
Commissioned:


August 18, 1916
Fate:
Sunk Dec. 10, 1941 by Japanese land based aircraft (bombed and torpedoed).

Location: South China Sea, 67 miles east of Pekan, Malaysia.
(03.37N - 104.21E )

513 crewmen were killed, 796 survivors were picked up by HMS Electra H-27 and
HMAS Vampire D-68.


Builder's Data
Page published Feb. 20, 2008