Ships Cover for the Royal Sovereign class first class barbette battleships HMS Empress of India [ex-Renown] (1891), HMS Ramillies (1892), HMS Repulse (1892), HMS Resolution (1892), HMS Revenge (1892), HMS Royal Oak (1892) and HMS Royal Sovereign (1892). The documentation includes a very detailed series of papers containing the initial design proposals and justifications for the class. These touch on all aspects of the design of the new ships and particularly the arrangement of armour and protection. There are also statements of dimensions and weights, estimates of costs (both for the initial construction and later for re-activation for wartime service circa 1912/13), schemes of complement (proposed, as commissioned, and as altered), armament arrangement and ammunition allowance, ship equipment and fittings eg. anchors, boats, masts etc, stability calculations, correspondence with various equipment and armour plate contractors, alterations made both prior to completion and during active service, reports of steam trials and vessel performance at sea. The documents commence in September 1888 at the beginning of the design phase and end in December 1915, by which point only Revenge [now named Redoubtable] was still in commission as a bombardment vessel; the rest having been disposed of.