Fisher's affection for the older HMS Renown is linked to the decision to preserve that name for a later battlecruiser. The 1892 Repulse had also impressed him while serving under his Mediterranean command. In this reading, saving the two later R-class hulls for conversion as Renown-class battlecruisers carried a personal and institutional memory as well as a construction decision. The proposed link connects Repulse's peacetime reputation with the naming of a much more famous generation of capital ships.
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Fisher’s attachment to Renown and Repulse
The later battlecruiser names Renown and Repulse are connected to the two older ships that impressed Jackie Fisher in Mediterranean service.