HMS Royal Oak (1892) well as the Cruiser Squadron. In April 1904, while operating with the Home Fleet off the Scilly Isles, "Royal Oak" and her sister ship "Revenge" had their bottoms lightly damaged when they struck a sunken wreck. On 9 May 1904, "Royal Oak" became flagship of the Home Fleet's second-in-command, relieving her sister "Empress of India", and took part in annual maneuvers in July and August. On 7 March 1905, "Royal Oak" paid off at Portsmouth into the Chatham Reserve, and her crew transferred to the battleship "Caesar". The following day the ship recommissioned with a skeleton crew for service with
Royal Oak Middle School Royal Oak Middle School Royal Oak Middle School is the only middle school in the Charter Oak Unified School District and is located in the City of Covina, California, in the San Gabriel Valley east of Los Angeles. Royal Oak was a 1996 California Distinguished School Royal Oak Middle School opened in 1985 on the site of the former Royal Oak High School, which opened in 1965. Originally, the middle school served students in sixth through eighth grades. In 2007, the mission of the school changed to serve only seventh- and eighth-grade students. Enrollment in the 2016-2017 school year is