The 3rd Battlecruiser Squadron was a short-lived Royal Navy squadron of battlecruisers that saw service as part of the Grand Fleet during the First World...
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The First Battlecruiser Squadron was a Royal Navy squadron of battlecruisers that saw service as part of the Grand Fleet during the First World War. It...
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HMS Hood (redirect from Battlecruiser Hood)
killed while commanding the 3rd Battlecruiser Squadron and flying his flag on Invincible—one of the three battlecruisers which blew up at the Battle of...
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The Battlecruiser Squadron was a Royal Navy squadron of battlecruisers that saw service from 1919 to the early part of the Second World War. Its best-known...
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HMS Invincible (1907) (category Invincible-class battlecruisers)
flagship of the 3rd Battlecruiser Squadron during the Battle of Jutland in 1916. The squadron had been detached from Admiral Beatty's Battlecruiser Fleet a few...
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The 2nd Battlecruiser Squadron was a Royal Navy squadron of battlecruisers that saw service as part of the Grand Fleet during the First World War. In August...
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following the 3rd Battlecruiser Squadron as they were steering east-southeast, leading the Grand Fleet, and continuing to engage Hipper's battlecruisers to their...
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Battle of Jutland (section Battlecruiser action)
battleships of the 1st and 4th Battle Squadrons of the Grand Fleet and three battlecruisers of the 3rd Battlecruiser Squadron eastwards out of Scapa Flow at...
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she joined the 3rd BCS. Towards the end of the year, the British battlecruiser force was organised into three squadrons, with the 3rd BCS consisting of...
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ship was sunk. At around the same time, the fresh battlecruisers of the 3rd Battlecruiser Squadron engaged their German opposites. Between 19:26 and 19:34...
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Hood to command of the 3rd Battlecruiser Squadron operating out of Rosyth in Scotland. Hood's command was the three battlecruisers of the Invincible class:...
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Fleet 1st Battlecruiser Squadron-1913 Grand Fleet. 2nd Battlecruiser Squadron-1914 Mediterranean Fleet, 1915 Grand Fleet. 3rd Battlecruiser Squadron-1915 Grand...
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HMS Inflexible (1907) (category Invincible-class battlecruisers)
joined the 3rd Battlecruiser Squadron (BCS) of the Grand Fleet under the command of Rear Admiral H.L.A. Hood. At the end of May 1916, the 3rd BCS was temporarily...
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David Beatty's Battlecruiser Fleet at Rosyth (this was to release the Invincible-class battlecruisers of the 3rd Battlecruiser Squadron for gunnery practice...
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conveyed royalty on their foreign tours and served as flagship of the Battlecruiser Squadron when Hood was refitting. Both ships served during the Second World...
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the North Sea. On 21 May, the 5th Battle Squadron was attached to Beatty while his 3rd Battlecruiser Squadron was detached for gunnery training and arrived...
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opening stages of the Dardanelles Campaign. The ships formed the 3rd Battlecruiser Squadron at Jutland where Invincible was destroyed by the explosion of...
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HMAS Australia (1911) (category World War I battlecruisers of Australia)
an overcautious Admiralty, prevented the battlecruiser from engaging the German squadron before the squadron's destruction. Australia was then assigned...
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SMS Derfflinger (category Derfflinger-class battlecruisers)
Beatty's four battlecruisers, supported by the 3rd Cruiser Squadron and the 1st Light Cruiser Squadron, along with the 2nd Battle Squadron's six dreadnoughts...
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HMS Tiger (1913) (redirect from Tiger class battlecruiser)
was not yet ready for service. The ship was assigned to the 1st Battlecruiser Squadron (1st BCS) for the duration of the war and participated in the Battle...
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HMS Chester. On 31 May 1916, Chester was scouting ahead of the 3rd Battlecruiser Squadron at the Battle of Jutland when the ship turned to investigate gunfire...
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fleet unit was formed, the Australian squadron in 1913. The Indefatigable was ordered as the lone battlecruiser of the 1908–9 programme. Her outline design...
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press as a "baby killer". His squadron clashed with the British battlecruiser squadron at the Battle of Dogger Bank in January 1915, where the armored...
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HMS New Zealand (1911) (category Indefatigable-class battlecruisers)
rendezvous point in the middle of the North Sea, with the 1st and 3rd Battlecruiser Squadrons while the rest of the Grand Fleet made for the south-eastern...
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Battle Squadron (1912-1914) 9th Battle Squadron (1914) 1st Battlecruiser Squadron (1915-1919) 2nd Battlecruiser Squadron (1915-1919) 3rd Battlecruiser Squadron...
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3rd Weather Squadron 3rd Battle Squadron, Royal Navy 3rd Battlecruiser Squadron, Royal Navy 3rd Wing This disambiguation page lists articles about military...
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detached to the Nore, as escort to the 3rd Battle Squadron, which was guarding the Thames Estuary against a battlecruiser raid). Did not sail: SMS König Albert:...
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The Courageous class consisted of three battlecruisers known as "large light cruisers" built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. The class was...
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SMS Lützow (category World War I battlecruisers of Germany)
causing a serious fire. By 19:24, the 3rd Battlecruiser Squadron had formed up with Beatty's remaining battlecruisers ahead of the German line. The leading...
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HMS Indomitable (1907) (category World War I battlecruisers of the United Kingdom)
knots (13–19 km/h; 8.1–11.5 mph). She was transferred to the 3rd Battlecruiser Squadron (BCS) in February 1915 although she was being repaired after an...
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