Renown was incorrectly identified as a Royal Sovereign-class ship during the magazine review. Renown and Repulse began from a design context connected with Royal Sovereign-type battleships, but the ships completed as a distinct battlecruiser class. The correction separates design ancestry from the classification and capabilities of the finished vessels. A cancelled or altered starting design is not necessarily the class to which a radically reworked ship ultimately belonged.
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Correcting the Renown-class identification
Renown and Repulse began from a battleship-class design context but were not Royal Sovereign-class ships.