 "Revenge" was recommissioned the following year, after the start of World War I, to bombard the coast of Flanders as part of the Dover Patrol, during which she was hit four times, but was not seriously damaged.She had anti-torpedo bulges fitted in early 1915, the first ship to be fitted with them operationally.The ship was renamed Redoubtable later that year and was refitted as an accommodation ship by the end of the year.