Renown-class battlecruiser

The Renown class was a pair of battlecruisers, Renown and Repulse, built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. They were first laid down as improved Revenge-class battleships, then restarted as battlecruisers on the insistence of Admiral Lord Fisher, who wanted fast ships built quickly, and they were delivered a few months after the Battle of Jutland in 1916. They were the fastest capital ships in the world when commissioned. HMS Renown was awarded to the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company and built at Govan, while Repulse was built by John Brown at Clydebank, so the yard stands behind one of the two hulls of the class.