https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/royal_navy.PNG

Ship prefix: HMS

Representing the British Royal Navy; another member of the "Azur Lane" alliance with the Eagle Union. As such their ships are not difficult to get. They are introduced in the prologue (tutorial) as they fight the Ironblood Battleship Bismarck. They would later become the primary protagonist group of the various Ironblood events, in particular "Divergent Chessboard", "Winter's Crown" and "Starry Skies over the Fjord".

Royal Navy ships tend to have good evasion, whether through raw evasion stats or through skills such as Emergency Evasion or some sort of Smokescreen if at the expense of any offensive skills. Their Destroyers favoring torpedoes and Cruisers favoring a mix, leanding towards guns (due to FP boosting skills). The Royal Navy is on the old fashioned side with their Battleship-type preference, though the few carriers they have are very respectable. They are the only faction to field Monitors (light capital ships that forgo speed and protection to mount far heavier guns than their ships of their weight class/oil cost would normally have). With obvious centerpiece battleship units like Queen Elizabeth and King George V who respectively give fleetwide buffs and receives buffs from being in an RN fleet, the RN has perhaps the strongest sense of being intended for use as a single navy, though with higher standalone ability seen in newer ships/refit, they are better able to do inter-faction play pretty well. Curiously enough, the Royal Navy has a large number of buxom ships.

As an aside, a number of these ships were transferred during or after the war to various Dominion navies, with references to this in the game.

Currently, the following Dominions have known equivalents in the English Version:

Canada is the Maple Monarchy, according the English biography of Fortune. Fortune and Foxhound both make references to their transfer. The entire C-Class was also transferred, but no mention seems to be made to this in-game.^{In the other versions...}
New Zealand is, creatively, New Zealand, referenced by Achilles in several of her lines.

open/close all folders

Battlecruisers (CC/BC)

The Admiral-class

Hood (51)

Voiced by: Atsuko Tanaka (Japanese), Terri Doty (English), Diana Galván (Latin American Spanish)

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hood_12.png

ID: No. 129

Rarity: Super Rare

Artist: SA (Launch - 2018(?)) Hao (Present)

"Are you the commander? Greetings and well met. I'm the glory of the Royal Navy: Hood. Wherever I go, victory follows."

Artistic License – Military: She is able to equip secondary guns. While HMS Hood was initially equipped with twelve single gun turrets as a secondary armament, by 1940 they had all been removed and replaced with additional AA weaponry (4 of her 6 torpedo tubes were also removed). The Azur Lane Hood depicts her as she was in 1940, primarily as she was during the Battle of the Denmark Strait, and her high AA stat reflects this. While she was due to be modernized in 1941, and the plans would have added eight twin gun turrets as a secondary armament ^note, this was never started due to the outbreak of the Second World War. As well, she doesn't have an ability to launch torpedoes, despite a number of other backline ships that had torpedo tubes in real life being able to do so.
Covert Pervert:
- She's responsible for Cygnet's skimpy summer and winter outfits, in 'Slow Ahead' tries to get her into a bunnygirl outfit, and in a number of her own skins, wears clothing far more revealing than what one would expect of a refined lady like her.
- Also implied by her crush quote, where she gets very close to the commander, and remarks that a lady must seize the initiative towards the targets of their affection.
- However, she has limits: She's unamused if you touch her chest, telling the commander that they should understand the consequences of disrespecting a lady. Echo's line for the same situation has her say that Hood told her to never let anyone touch her there. This is averted in her oath skin, in which she tells the Commander to... be patient. ^note
Depending on the Artist: Whether she's flat-chested in her base outfit varies depending on the source. SA's base outfit artwork, Queen's Orders, and some other official artwork in game and on the official Twitter portray her as flat, but the anime, 'Slow Ahead', and her 3D model in Crosswave shows her as having the same bust-size as she does in her swimsuit and wedding dress in-game. Said base outfit is based on Edwardian fashion, so that may explain some of the inconsistency: Women often wore corsets to flatten their busts for fashion, and combined with her heavy coat her very visible bustline that's in her other, modern outfits may simply be hidden.
Drink-Based Characterization: Offers the Commander tea when they log in and when they return to port, and mentions that a great commander must have an in-depth knowledge of tea. Part of Grenville's training under her is learning how to make tea.
English Rose: She's practically the personification of English genteel elegance and grace within the Royal Navy.
Foregone Conclusion: She will inevitably be sunk during the game's tutorial... in a battle against Bismarck.
Hidden Buxom: Her swimsuit and wedding dress reveal a bustline that her default outfit doesn't even hint at in some depictions (including the original game).
Hidden Depths:
- Despite her calm and proper demeanor, her dying thoughts in Scherzo of Iron and Blood imply that she was extremely burdened by being the Pride of the Royal Navy, thinking "May I finally be able to put down this crown of thorns".
- During Iris of Light and Dark, she talks about how the shipgirls, while sentient beings with emotions and freewill, were designed to be weapons that followed orders given by their commanders, and how what they are doing (turning their guns on their former allies) would be so much easier if they were all merely weapons. While she has never been shown to be a shallow or unintelligent person, she's one of the few shown to actually think about how they are treated and viewed by those in charge.
- Going along with the previous two examples is her saying to Bismarck that they used to be allies and wondering why Ironblood would betray them after Bismarck sinks her in the tutorial. It seems that the war really hit her hard.
Historical In-Joke:
- Her failing sight is a reference to mistaking Prinz Eugen for Bismarck in the Battle of Denmark Strait.
- If deployed with Renown, she will tell her to not get distracted, a reference to an incident where Renown accidentally struck one of Hood's propellers.
- The blue badge on her caplet is the ship badge of HMS Hood.
Lady of War: Is extremely elegant, proper, polite, and quite capable of defeating targets in a single volley, if you get a bit lucky with her skill. Even her swimsuit skin does nothing to diminish this.
Ma'am Shock: Judging by the fact that Abercrombie goes running to Wales right afterwards, talking about how intimidating Hood is, she does not appreciate the monitor referring to her as "Auntie Hood". Queen's Orders shows this to be a fact, as her response to Abercrombie calling her "Auntie" there is to tell her to never call her that again. However, it's also shown that the main reason Abercrombie tends to run from her is that Hood is usually responsible for cleaning up whatever mess Abercrombie's latest prank or scheme has caused. She's also annoyed when Abercrombie calls her Granny Hood in the English version.
Major Injury Underreaction: If her HP gets too low, she will remark that even she is slightly angered.
Motherly Side Plait: She has this on the her right side, however, she only has it tied up in her beach skin, letting it simply hang loosely in her other two. Fittingly, she has a somewhat motherly demeanour when it comes to the rest of the Royal Navy, and she dies in the prologue/tutorial, which takes place several months before the main story kicks off^note.
My Greatest Failure: Failing to get the Vichya Fleet at Mers-el-Kebir to join Azur Lane, and having to sink them. While most of her dying thoughts are of her friends and colleagues, she also hopes that Dunkerque will understand why they had to sink her.
Regal Ringlets: Combines this with her Motherly Side Plait. Her side plait is also a loose ringlet, which is even more visible in her Beach and Wedding skins. It fits her upper-class, elegant demeanour.
Rousing Speech: Gives a rather fine one in the middle of Chapter 5 of Operation Siren.
Sacrificial Lion: Considered one of the best battlecruisers in the world at the time^*despite thin armor in certain areas and the Pride of the Royal Navy. To say that her sudden and quick loss to Bismarck was demoralizing was an understatement, although this was also used by Churchill as a catalyst to rally the rest of the fleet in hunting the Bismarck.
Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: Downplayed, but she appears to be this to Abercrombie in Queen's Orders, often appearing to deal with the aftermath of the monitor's antics.
Stone Wall: Especially compared to fellow super-rare battlecruiser Amagi, Hood is badly lacking in the offensive department. She has the fourth-lowest level 120 firepower among all battleships and battlecruisers (only Mikasa, Gangut, and Conte di Cavour are lower, but Mikasa and Gangut have other gimmicks to help them out^note and Conte de Cavour is two rarities lower)... however, Hood has one the highest hitpoint totals in the game by far (a staggering 7677 at level 100 - only Friedrich der Große beats her at level 100 and only Friedrich der Große, Bismarck, and Izumo surpass her hitpoints at level 120 - notably, two of these are research ships, which tend to have a leg up on normal ships) and the best anti-air of any main fleet ship that isn't a post-Standard USN battleship or retrofitted Ise and Hyuuga. That said, if you max out her skill (and her unique augment module) and she gets a bit lucky with the pattern, the additional barrage effect of it can still allow her to dish out some pain (and buff the other backline ships). Otherwise, you'll really notice the difference.
Support Party Member: While her skill will help her damage a good deal (her Firepower score is the fourth-lowest of any BB/BC in the game, discounting monitors), her skill's real claim to fame is the 40% increase in Reload it grants for eight seconds, vastly accelerating your main fleet's attack speed. Pair her with someone like Warspite and watch the enemy melt.
A Taste of Power: She is playable for a short time in the tutorial.
Utility Party Member: Her Glory of the Royal Navy skill lets her fire a special barrage and grants the backline a massive reload buff for 8 seconds, allowing them to fire their guns and activate their skills faster.
The Worf Effect: She gets taken out in with a single hit by Bismarck in the tutorial. Justified, as this actually happened in the historical Battle of Denmark Strait. ^note
Wearing a Flag on Your Head: Wears the Union Jack as a capelet.
Younger Than They Look: Downplayed. While she is fairly old compared to many other kansen, Hood is actually the youngest of the Royal Navy battlecruisers, having been laid down the same year that the Renown-class ships were completed and commissioned, and only being completed in 1920, making her younger than the Queen Elizbeth-class, Hermes, Courageous, the Erebus-class, and a number of cruisers. Despite this, she's portrayed as something of a Team Mom, and is shown as being more mature mentally (and, in most cases, physically) than a fair number of the older Royal Navy ships, and is called Granny by Abercrombie.
You Don't Look Like You: At some point after the release of her swimsuit skin, Hood's original artist seemingly dropped off the face of the Earth. During the third anniversary livestream there there was a piece of artwork of Hood shown where she is now drawn by Hao, artist of the Yorktown, Bismarck, and Cleveland families as well as Akagi and Kaga (who is also getting a skin in the same upcoming collaboration)

The Renown-class

Class-wide Tropes

Crutch Character: The Renown-class ships are actually pretty decent when you first acquire them^note, but easily fall behind once players obtain other battlecruisers such as Hood ^note or actual battleships such as Warspite ^note and the Nelson-class ships^notewith their Big Seven barrage skill. Repulse gets it especially bad, since she's got the second-lowest HP of any non-monitor battleship-type unit and the third-lowest Firepower (with the two below her, Hood and Mikasa, having gimmicks that make their low FP stat not as big a deal) meaning that even with good Counterattack procs, other BBs and BCs quickly begin to outpace her.
Cool Sword: Both of them carry swords with them.
Off Screen Moment Of Awesome: In a mock exercise during Repulse's secretary quest, a fleet spearheaded by the Renown sisters (and trained particularly by Repulse) is reported to absolutely stomp an opposing fleet headed up by the higher rarity sibling duo of Atago & Takao.
Older Than They Look: As is fairly often the case with BBs and BCs, both of them have the look of young women but were fairly old for warships by the time of World War II, as they both entered service in World War I, a few months after Jutland. Especially odd is that they are consistently shown as the younger battlecruisers in comparison to Hood, despite both being completed and commissioned in 1916, the year Hood was laid down(she wasn't completed until 1918, and wasn't commissioned until 1920). It's a bit less pronounced with Renown, at least, who acts like an Officer and a Gentlewoman (if one who's as dense as a rock romantically), but Repulse usually comes across as more like a hyperactive teenager than anything.

Renown (72)

Voiced by: Ai Kayano (-2022), Ayako Kawasumi (2022-)

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/800px_renown.png

ID: No. 127

Rarity: Elite

Artist: SA

"I'm Renown, the Renown-class battlecruiser of the Royal Navy. Give me your orders! Wherever you point your sword is where I will aim my cannons, Commander!"

Braids of Action: She has this in the back, which is barely visible.
Charged Attack: Her Final Glory skill increases the damage of her next volley after firing her main gun.
The Ditz: Downplayed, but it takes a special sort of person to not know what a love letter is, and somehow mistake it for a) someone being in love with a letter (English), b) someone writing a book with a piano (Chinese), or c), someone talking about a variant of an obscure North African woodwind instrument (Japanese). She also takes a moment to remember that she is Renown during one of her secretary lines, after the Commander says she is cute.
Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: The responsible sibling to Repulse, despite being a total Ditz.
Love at First Sight: The commander falls for this with Renown. Getting her affection up is about trying to get Renown to realize you're in love with her, until it finally clicks during her pledge!
Oblivious to Love: In her Crush line, she's confused by the commander lighting a series of candles shaped into a heart on the beach, and drives them to tears by pointing out that the wind would blow them out. She doesn't even get it in her Love line — the commander has to pledge to her before she finally puts two and two together.
- Even before that, she reveals that she has no idea what a love letter is, thinking that it literally refers to someone being in love with a letter.^{In other languages}
Prim and Proper Bun: Contrasts with Repulse's Tomboyish Ponytail.

Repulse (34)

Voiced by: Koharu Nogata

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/repulse.png

ID: No. 128

Rarity: Rare

Artist: SA

"I'm Repulse, the Renown-class battlecruiser. I participated in the pursuit of Bismarck, but could not catch her. From that time on, I was a member of Force Z… I don't want to see a torpedo ever again…"

Artistic License – History: The HMS Repulse was in fact the first among the current AL roster of Royal Navy Battlecruisers to be completed to satisfaction for wartime deployment and was the only one to see combat during the first World War. Thereby, Repulse should technically be considered the oldest. In-game however, she is always regarded as the younger sister to both Renown and Hood.
Counter-Attack: Her Z's Counterattack skill increases her own reload rate whenever she gets hit, allowing her to fire her guns more quickly while being attacked.
Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: The foolish sibling to Renown, though she's generally less of a ditz than her sister.
Genki Girl: She is always excitable and enthusiastic.
I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Repulse's inner thoughts during a late entry in her secretary quest line reveal that she had been attempting to remove herself from a percieved Sibling Triangle with the commander in favor of her sister, Renown. The final entry of the quest line ultimately subverts this when the commander reveals that this perception was incorrect. Repulse's behavior then seemingly shifts toward pushing for...
Polyamory: Her final act in her secretary quest line after cementing her place at the commander's side seems to outright encourage Renown to share the commander with her. The commander notes that Renown being Renown, Repulse's insinuation probably went over her head.
Starter Mon: She is usually the first battlecruiser obtained by the player courtesy of a very early quest reward.
Tomboy: In contrast to most British battleships, she completely lacks elegance, even moreso than Warspite. She also speaks in a rather casual manner.
Tomboyish Ponytail: Hard to see, but she has a ponytail.
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Torpedoes, in reference to her ultimate fate at the Naval Battle of Malaya.

Monitors (BM)

The Erebus-class

Boring, but Practical: They lack the ability to do a three volley normal attack like most battleships and battlecruisers (they can only do two volleys) and lack the extra-high main gun efficiency rating of the few that do share this drawback, the armor of battleships or even battlecruisers and carriers (monitors are the only main fleet combatants with 'light' armor), or the hit point pools of other main fleet units (most battleships and battlecruisers have twice their health). However, they're extremely practical for farming fleets due to their effective barrage and low oil consumption.
Crippling Overspecialization: In this case, wholly intentional in design. They have all of the issues above - volley size, light armor, sub-Heavy Cruiser HP, et cetera - but among ships with a "volley after set time" skill, theirs takes the cake in that it is absolutely, unquestionably, able to clear an even-level wave when it goes off, and is so big it will often continue into the next wave. There is a further limitation, though - the spread pattern is such that the volley needs to be fired from the center of your formation for maximum effectiveness, meaning you need to make these fragile girls your flagship in order to get the most out of them... meaning further that, if they get taken down, it's an automatic defeat.
Glass Cannon: They have most of the firepower of Battleships but they are rather fragile with low hitpoints and are the only main fleet ships (along with the Roberts-class monitors) with 'light' armor. This is to balance their low fuel cost and completely bonkers volley skill.
More Dakka: Their Infinite Darkness skill lets them fire a heavy barrage of bullets within a straight line.
Moveset Clone: Erebus and Terror have almost identical stats, weapon efficiencies, and skills. The one mechanical difference is their Luck Stats — Erebus has an incredibly high 91, while Terror has an incredibly low 19 as part of a Historical In-Joke that one was sunk while the other survived, with their luck stats being exact opposites of each other.
Older Than They Look: Erebus is an Elegant Gothic Lolita and Terror is basically a "lolita Frankenstein", so they both look like little girls. Both ships/girls were commissioned during World War One and are some of the absolute oldest ships on the roster. You have to start discussing things like Langley's early life as a collier to get to ships older than them.

Erebus (I02)

Voiced by: Saya Horigome

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/erebus_4.png

ID: No. 149

Rarity: Elite

Artist: Saru

"It was you, was it not, Commander? I am Erebus… I came to answer your call from a dark world far, far away."

Art Evolution: Her Halloween skin released in 2019 has noticeably toned down eye size and such, surprising those who were used to her base skin which is rather typical of her artist Saru.
Cool Big Sis: She makes it clear that she cares a lot about her little sister.
Elegant Gothic Lolita: She has this outfit by default, and her unique outfit has a black dress with even more frills.
Living Emotional Crutch: Acts as this to her sister, mentioning that she's helpless without her, and that she's been taking care of her since they were born. It's zigzagged, however, in that Erebus also admits that she's become just as dependant on Terror as Terror is on her, saying that's she'd be just as helpless without Terror, and that she's terrified by the idea of becoming used to being alone. Tragically, the real HMS Erebus did end up alone, surviving the war while her sister ship was scuttled after being bombed in 1941.
Psychopomp: Her examination line has her state:

Erebus: I'm not a harbinger of death... I am just... guiding them after their times are up

Shout-Out: Her skill activation line ("'Ippen shindemiru?'") has her channel her inner Ai Enma.

Terror (I03)

Voiced by: Maia

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/terror_0.png

ID: No. 150

Rarity: Elite

Artist: Saru

"I'm the Monitor ship... Terror. Abercrombie won't stand against me and my sister. We spent a lot of time in the Dardanelles strait. If you want naval gunfire support aimed at land... I could do that with my eyes closed..."

Hellish Pupils: Her eyes look like Vampire's.
Historical In-Joke: In her case, it's her Frankenstein-like appearance. Terror was, by WW2, an old vessel and had undergone several extremely radical overhauls and refits, the first from early in her career during WW1. By the time of Operation Compass, barely anything remained of the ship that launched in 1916, and a lot of her parts were falling to bits regardless - her turret infamously wore out its rifling mid-campaign^note, relegating her to purely anti-air duty.
Shrinking Violet: Often stutters and pauses during her lines, mentions being scared, and is nervous every time she goes into a battle.
Horrifying the Horror: Played with. When sortied as flagship, she states that "Even Terror... is getting terrified...".
Third-Person Person: Usually refers to herself as "Terror" rather than "I".

The Roberts-class

Abercrombie (F109)

Voiced by: Juri Nagatsuma

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/abercrombie.png

ID: No. 336

Rarity: Elite

Artist: tsliuyixin

"I'm the monitor Abercrombie, along with my sister we've completed many land support missions in the Mediterranean. Hehe~ As I thought, bombarding stationary targets is a lot more fun~ "

Annoying Younger Sibling: Manages to be one to Roberts despite Roberts not actually being in any version of the game yet. She steals her crisps, gives them to the commander, then calls Roberts over, claiming that the Commander stole them.
Bratty Half-Pint: She puts habanero in Nelson's curry, hides your mail and refuses to give it back unless you give her treats, randomly fires off shots out of boredom, gives you crisps, then reveals she stole them from Roberts by telling Roberts you stole them, and calls Hood "Auntie"(She also calls her Granny in the English version). She also outright hits you with her Mark I in her upset line^noteThe line implies she physically picks it up and wacks you with it, not that she shoots you with it.
- In Queen's Orders, she manages to usurp Queen Elizabeth as secretary by getting other Royal ships to agree to sign a petition, and gets them to do so by promising them things she can't deliver on (mostly dates with the Commander).
Crocodile Tears: Uses these in Queen's Orders to trick Warspite into signing a petition that would have her replace Queen Elizabeth as the secretary ship, lying about wanting to do it so that Queen Elizabeth wouldn't be so overworked.
The Ghost: Not her, but her sister Roberts. While many ships will sometimes reference other ships in their class that haven't been added to the game, Abercrombie is somewhat unique in that some of her lines state Roberts is actually present at the naval base, despite her not having been added to any version of the game as of yet.
Gun Nut: Absolutely loves shooting things with her Mark I, to the point where most of her lines reference it (and most of the other ones are her being a brat), randomly shoots it when she's bored, collects shells as a hobby, and refers to her Mark I as her most prized possession. Her love line even has her wondering why the Commander and the Mark I can't be one.

Characters / Azur Lane Royal Navy

Battlecruisers (CC/BC)

Hood (51)

Voiced by: Atsuko Tanaka (Japanese), Terri Doty (English), Diana Galván (Latin American Spanish)

Class-wide Tropes

Renown (72)

Voiced by: Ai Kayano (-2022), Ayako Kawasumi (2022-)