High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Revenge class battleships (listed as Royal Sovereign Class in Jane`s Fighting Ships, 1931 edition) were five battleships of the Royal Navy, ordered as World War I loomed on the horizon, and launched in 1914–1916. There were originally to have been eight of the class, but two were later redesigned, becoming the Renown class battlecruisers, while the other, which was to have been named HMS Resistance, was cancelled.