The three Invincible-class battlecruisers were built for the Royal Navy and entered service in 1908 as the world's first battlecruisers. They were the...
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HMS Invincible was the lead ship of her class of three battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy during the first decade of the twentieth century and the...
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The Indefatigable class were the second class built of British battlecruisers which served in the Royal Navy and the Royal Australian Navy during World...
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The Lexington-class battlecruisers were officially the only class of battlecruiser to ever be ordered by the United States Navy. While these six vessels...
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Invincible class may refer to: Invincible-class battlecruiser, British Royal Navy class in service from 1908 to 1921 Invincible-class aircraft carrier...
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The Kongō-class battlecruiser (金剛型巡洋戦艦, Kongō-gata jun'yōsenkan) was a class of four battlecruisers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) immediately...
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HMS Inflexible (1907) (category Invincible-class battlecruisers)
HMS Inflexible was one of three Invincible-class battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy before World War I and had an active career during the war. She...
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role in the losses. Of the battlecruisers built before the First World War, the Invincible class and Indefatigable class all had 6 inches (152 mm) of...
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British Royal Navy proposal Invincible-class battlecruiser, a British Royal Navy class in service from 1908 to 1921 The Invincible (video game), a 2023 video...
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same time, the Invincible class themselves were referred to as "cruiser-battleships", "dreadnought cruisers"; the term "battlecruiser" was first used...
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HMS Indomitable (1907) (category Invincible-class battlecruisers)
HMS Indomitable was one of three Invincible-class battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy before World War I and had an active career during the war....
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The Derfflinger class was a class of three battlecruisers (German: Schlachtkreuzer) of the Imperial German Navy. The ships were ordered for the 1912–13...
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the Lexington-class battlecruiser design had a nearly identical armor percentage of 28.5%. In fact, older battlecruisers, such as Invincible (19.9%), had...
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armored cruisers had been rendered obsolete by the Royal Navy's Invincible-class battlecruisers. Construction of these ships was abandoned under the terms...
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than the first British battlecruisers of the Invincible class. Lion served as the flagship of the Grand Fleet's battlecruisers throughout World War I...
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launched in 1876 and sold in 1903. HMS Inflexible (1907) was an Invincible-class battlecruiser launched in 1907 and sold for scrapping in 1921. Ships named...
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The 3rd Battlecruiser Squadron was created in 1915, with the return to home waters of two of the three Invincible-class battlecruisers—Invincible and Inflexible—following...
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was the first German battlecruiser, ordered in 1907. She was designed in response to the British Invincible-class battlecruisers, construction on which...
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SMS Von der Tann (redirect from Von der Tann class battlecruiser)
SMS Von der Tann was the first battlecruiser built for the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy), as well as Germany's first major turbine-powered...
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incorrectly believed to be the specifications of the British Invincible-class battlecruisers. Blücher was larger than preceding armored cruisers and carried...
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HMS Hood (redirect from Battlecruiser Hood)
(pennant number 51) was a battlecruiser of the Royal Navy (RN). Hood was the first of the planned four Admiral-class battlecruisers to be built during the...
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end of the war it became the sole Battlecruiser Squadron. The first two British battlecruisers of the Invincible class—Inflexible and Indomitable—were commissioned...
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Invincible-class battlecruisers, with their greater speed and firepower, ensured their obsolescence as fighting units. All four ships in this class were...
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Fisgard II in 1906, before foundering in a storm in 1914. HMS Invincible (1907) was a battlecruiser of the First World War attached to the 1st Cruiser Squadron...
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(大日本帝国海軍) built four battlecruisers, with plans for an additional four, during the first decades of the 20th century. The battlecruiser was an outgrowth of...
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Scharnhorst class, though she remained inferior to the new Invincible-class battlecruisers then being built by the British Royal Navy. German armored...
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HMS Indefatigable (1909) (category Indefatigable-class battlecruisers)
survived. No battlecruisers were ordered after the three Invincible class ships in 1905 until Indefatigable became the lone battlecruiser of the 1908–1909...
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Nelson-class battleships, laid down 1905, completed 1908 Battleship HMS Dreadnought, laid down 1905, completed 1906 Invincible-class battlecruisers, laid...
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with the battlecruisers HMS New Zealand and Invincible 40 mi (35 nmi; 64 km) to the north-west and Cruiser Force C comprising the Cressy-class armoured...
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build battlecruisers: large capital ships with greater speed but less armor than dreadnought battleships. The first battlecruisers, the Invincible class, were...
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