HMS Revenge refit in Durban early 1942

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Fatboy Coxy
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HMS Revenge refit in Durban early 1942

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Hi all

Questions, questions, questions, what is it with the questions…. Well, I dunno, so

HMS Revenge had a refit at Durban, South Africa, arrived 24th February 1942, completed 17th March.

Was refitted with Type 273 surface warning and Type 284 main armament fire control radar.
https://www.naval-history.net/xGM-Chron ... evenge.htm

Also given a pair of Type 285 anti-aircraft gunnery sets and two Type 282 radars for the "pom-poms". Two four-barrel "pom-poms" were added in late 1941 atop 'B' and 'X' turrets as well as ten 20 mm Oerlikon guns that replaced the quadruple .50-caliber mounts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Revenge_(06)

Note, Type 279 Radar to provide aircraft warning was fitted March 1941, somewhere on the Clyde.

Can anyone confirm if this is correct, please
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Re: HMS Revenge refit in Durban early 1942

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Fatboy Coxy wrote: Sun Nov 21, 2021 8:22 pm Hi all

Questions, questions, questions, what is it with the questions…. Well, I dunno, so

HMS Revenge had a refit at Durban, South Africa, arrived 24th February 1942, completed 17th March.

Was refitted with Type 273 surface warning and Type 284 main armament fire control radar.
https://www.naval-history.net/xGM-Chron ... evenge.htm

Also given a pair of Type 285 anti-aircraft gunnery sets and two Type 282 radars for the "pom-poms". Two four-barrel "pom-poms" were added in late 1941 atop 'B' and 'X' turrets as well as ten 20 mm Oerlikon guns that replaced the quadruple .50-caliber mounts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Revenge_(06)

Note, Type 279 Radar to provide aircraft warning was fitted March 1941, somewhere on the Clyde.

Can anyone confirm if this is correct, please
That all seems correct, according to my sources.
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Re: HMS Revenge refit in Durban early 1942

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Thank you Dunmunro, the sources looked good, Wikipedia was from Raven & Roberts, but....

the next line in the Wikipedia entry read
"To save weight and make more room available for the additional crew required to man the new equipment like the radars and Oerlikons, four 6-inch guns were removed in 1943."

I don't understand this, surely the planners knew about the topside weight carried, and these ships were supposed to be a small version of the QE's, with little room to modernise, did they really take two years to work out they were top heavy, of was this a typo?

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Byron Angel
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Re: HMS Revenge refit in Durban early 1942

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Hi Fatboy,
One thought - in the case of any "Revenge" re-fits carried out away from home, it is a possibility that the highly detailed documentation and calculated date regarding topside weights, stability calculations etc were simply not easily available - especially since "Revenge" apparently had a fairly complicated re-fit history

See R A Burt's book, "British Battleships 1919-1945".

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Re: HMS Revenge refit in Durban early 1942

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Thank you Byron, I'll look that up
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