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 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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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sister ships were engaged by the battlecruisers of the 3rd Battlecruiser Squadron. Posen was the only ship of I Battle Squadron to be able to make out a target...
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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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Westfalen and her sister ships began to be engaged by the battlecruisers of the 3rd Battlecruiser Squadron; several large shells straddled (fell to either side...
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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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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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