 "Revenge" was the ninth ship of her name to serve in the Royal Navy and was ordered under the Naval Defence Act Programme of 1889.The ship was laid down by Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company at their shipyard in Jarrow in Tyne and Wear, England, on 12 February 1891.She was floated out of the drydock on 3 November 1892, and completed on 22 March 1894 at a cost of £954,825.