Calling all HMS Repulse & HMS Renown fans

[KevinD]

The last HMS Repulse survivor has crossed the bar. RIP Rear Admiral Guy Griffiths.

As they would say Down Under, at 101 "he had a good inning's".

A couple of articles.

The second from a naval magazine with the Adm telling his life story. Very very interesting!

https://www.smh.com.au/national/excepti ... 5fa5t.html

https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2908084849/view

BTW, the below photo, from one of the articles. When / what time frame is it from?

[81542]

Kevin,

Is "someone" sure that the photograph in question is of HMS REPULSE? It looks suspiciously like a KGV to me. It's possibly HMS DUKE OF YORK. I believe that she was well photographed/filmed while on her trials. The camouflage scheme is somehow familiar too.

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[KevinD]

Kevin,
Is "someone" sure that the photograph in question is of HMS REPULSE? It looks suspiciously like a KGV to me. It's possibly HMS DUKE OF YORK. I believe that she was well photographed/filmed while on her trials. The camouflage scheme is somehow familiar too.
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Opps, my mistake when copying from article.

Corrected that now.

Maybe Anson (if the inset is Anson that is, as the caption I have states)?

[81542]

Kevin,

I would agree; subject to someone else confirming it, that the smaller of the two pictures in your last post in HMS ANSON. There is one feature visible in which she differed from other members of the class that indicates this. However, identification of the ship in the blurred larger picture is a different matter. I don't think now that it is HMS DUKE OF YORK (DoY). It may be HMS HOWE; which I believe had a similar camouflage scheme to ANSON at the time but the whole of the port bow of that ship is darker than that of the small picture showing ANSON. I wouldn't bet my pension on it though!!

That said, many thanks for the information on the late Rear Admiral Griffiths.

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[Joseph R]

Good Evening Ladies and Gents,

For any so inclined I recently finished a new painting depicting our HMS RENOWN engaged off Norway at the Battle of Stromvaer, 9th April 1940. I couldn't find a single picture of the Battle of Stromvaer, so decided to paint one. I hope you will enjoy seeing this..



..aaaand full description at link below:

https://www.josephreindler.com/hms-renown

All the very best.

Yours aye,

Joseph

[PaulC]

Right now I'm trying desperately to scrape my jaw up off the flooor!! It just doesn't seem to want to rejoin my head!! I am speechless!!

THAT IS STUNNINGLY BEAUTIFUL!!

You have truly captured the Renown and brought one of her most famous moments to life!

Joseph you are phenomenal. THANK YOU!!

[Joseph R]

Paul! Thank you, that just made my day. You are indeed too kind.

[El Santo]

Does anybody know the current thinking on which of the numerous anti-fouling paints Renown and Repulse carried? I've got an Airfix Repulse in my stash that's beginning to call to me.

[Swiftsure08]

Hello, long time lurker of this thread.
I have a question regarding the length of the starboard deckhouse of Repulse after her 1939 refit.

As posted by Timmy C back in 2016 and Alan Raven's Ensign 08, the starboard deckhouse was reconstructed and visibly photographed. Notably, JCRay suggested that:

p.s. I should point out that sketch is inaccurate slightly because there is an offset between the rear of the deckhouse and the rear of the starboard gun-house. That offset is visible in the rebuild photos.

Based on what I could observe in the photos, I have some hesitation to this statement. Notably, in the photo Timmy posted, there is a bar just immediately above the venting pipe that connects the bulkhead to the existing superstructure. There is also a guiding rail running below it that seems to be inline with the superstructure.



These two connecting rails become much more visible after some contrasting edits to the photo of Repulse in Ensign 08:


Current photoetch and upgrade kits for the 1/700 kits still suggest that there is an offset. If there indeed isn't an offset and the whole deckhouse is in line with the superstructure, then I would have to scratch build this structure. Could I have been tricked by the constructing photos, or are there any photos that show the offset more clearly?

Thank you.

[81542]

Would it be possible to contact the National Maritime Museum to find out what the "as fitted" drawings of the ship actually indicate?