Renown class battlecruisers

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I am reinitiating this GTC as a sub-topic of the larger British battlecruiser topic. It concerns a pair of British battlecruisers built during World War I. Neither saw much combat during the war, but were twice extensively reconstructed before World War II. Both ships were very active during World War II, including participation in the Norwegian Campaign and the search for the Bismarck. Repulse was sunk by the Japanese when they attacked British Malaya, but Renown survived the war while supporting multiple convoys to Russia and Malta, among other duties, and was scrapped in 1948.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 15:24, 16 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]