The Lion class were a pair of battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy before World War I. Nicknamed the "Splendid Cats", the ships were a significant improvement...
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to the Royal Navy's two new Lion-class battlecruisers that had been launched a few years earlier. The preceding Moltke class and the incrementally improved...
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Zealand agreed to fund one battlecruiser. A modified Indefatigable design was chosen rather than the Lion-class battlecruiser then building for the Royal...
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HMS Lion was a battlecruiser built for the Royal Navy in the 1910s. She was the lead ship of her class, which were nicknamed the "Splendid Cats". They...
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HMS Queen Mary (redirect from Queen Mary class battlecruiser)
battlecruiser built by the Royal Navy before the First World War. The sole member of her class, Queen Mary shared many features with the Lion-class battlecruisers...
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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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The Renown class consisted of two battlecruisers built during the First World War for the Royal Navy. They were originally laid down as improved versions...
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battlecruiser and chose a modified Indefatigable design rather than the Lion-class battlecruiser then being built for the Royal Navy. They spent most of the war...
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three Invincible-class battlecruisers were built for the Royal Navy and entered service in 1908 as the world's first battlecruisers. They were the brainchild...
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in 1905. HMS Lion (1910) was a Lion-class battlecruiser launched in 1910 and sold in 1924. HMS Lion (1939) was to have been a Lion-class battleship. She...
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HMS Princess Royal (1911) (category Lion-class battlecruisers)
of two Lion-class battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy before the First World War. Designed in response to the Moltke-class battlecruisers of the Imperial...
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to be battlecruisers, but was unable to have his way; he had to settle for six battleships and two battlecruisers of the Lion class. The Lions carried...
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launched in 1853 and sold in 1872. HMS Princess Royal (1911) was a Lion-class battlecruiser launched in 1911 and sold in 1922. Ships named Princess Royal have...
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The Lion class was a class of six fast battleships designed for the Royal Navy (RN) in the late 1930s. They were a larger, improved version of the preceding...
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Orion-class battleships and the Lion-class battlecruisers. The latter ships prompted Gille to decide the French Navy ought to build battlecruisers as well...
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SMS Seydlitz (redirect from Seydlitz class battlecruiser)
Battle of Dogger Bank, a 13.5 in (34.3 cm) shell from the British battlecruiser Lion struck Seydlitz's rearmost turret and nearly caused a magazine explosion...
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HMS Tiger (1913) (redirect from Tiger class battlecruiser)
HMS Tiger was a battlecruiser built for the Royal Navy during the 1910s. The ship was the most heavily armoured British battlecruiser at the start of...
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battleship, something that he sometimes called a "super-Lion", referring to the battlecruiser HMS Lion. Friedman believes that the Director of Naval Construction...
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of the German Empire, built a series of battlecruisers in the first half of the 20th century. The battlecruiser type was an outgrowth of older armored...
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SMS Derfflinger (category Derfflinger-class battlecruisers)
was the lead ship of her class of three ships; her sister ships were Lützow and Hindenburg. The Derfflinger-class battlecruisers were larger and featured...
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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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Lion class—Queen Mary—joined on 4 September. The First Battlecruiser Squadron at the outbreak of war was composed of the four newest battlecruisers in...
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Japanese battleship Hiei (redirect from Japanese battlecruiser Hiei)
architect George Thurston, she was the second launched of four Kongō-class battlecruisers, among the most heavily armed ships in any navy when built. Laid...
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The battlecruisers comprised the 1st Battlecruiser Squadron (Beatty) with Lion (flagship), Tiger and Princess Royal. The new 2nd Battlecruiser Squadron...
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Fast battleship (section Queen Elizabeth class)
Admiral David Beatty's Battlecruiser Fleet at Rosyth (this was to release the Invincible-class battlecruisers of the 3rd Battlecruiser Squadron for gunnery...
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SMS Lützow (category Derfflinger-class battlecruisers)
SMS Lützow was the second Derfflinger-class battlecruiser built by the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy) before World War I. Ordered as a replacement...
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HMS Indefatigable (1909) (category Indefatigable-class battlecruisers)
HMS Indefatigable was the lead ship of her class of three battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy during the first decade of the 20th Century. When the...
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Battle of Jutland (section Battlecruiser action)
German battlecruisers made an estimated total of forty-two 28 and 30.5 cm (11.0 and 12.0 in) hits on the British battlecruisers (nine on Lion, six on...
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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. She...
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SMS Moltke (category Moltke-class battlecruisers)
SMS Moltke was the lead ship of the Moltke-class battlecruisers of the German Imperial Navy, named after the 19th-century German Field Marshal Helmuth...
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