HMS Renown
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HMS Renown

Shown here is the battle-cruiser HMS Renown being bombed while on convoy escort, with Admiral Somerville's flagship the 'Queen Elizabeth' class battleship Malaya in the foreground. Taken from The Longest Battle: The War at Sea 1939-1945
this is not HMS Renown it is HMS Hood under attack by Italian SM79 bombers in the western Mediterranean on 9 July 1940. the ship in the left foreground is in fact HMS Valiant, and the photo was taken from the aircraftcarrier HMS Ark Royal.
 

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