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    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 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    The 3rd Battlecruiser Squadron was created in 1915, with the return to home waters of two of the three Invincible-class battlecruisersInvincible and Inflexible—following...
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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    (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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  • 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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    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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    conceivably win. Dreadnought was to have been followed by three Invincible-class battlecruisers, their construction delayed to allow lessons from Dreadnought...
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