HMS Indomitable (1907)
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 tried to hunt down the German ships Goeben and Breslau in the Mediterranean when war broke out and bombarded Turkish fortifications protecting the Dardanelles even before the British declared war on Turkey. She helped to sink the German armoured cruiser Blücher during the Battle of Dogger Bank in 1915 and towed the damaged British battlecruiser HMS Lion to safety after the battle. She damaged the German battlecruisers Seydlitz and Derfflinger during the Battle of Jutland in mid-1916 and watched her sister ship HMS Invincible explode. Deemed obsolete after the war, she was sold for scrap in 1921.
Illustration of Indomitable in 1908 | |
| History | |
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| United Kingdom | |
| Name | Indomitable |
| Ordered | 1906 Naval Programme |
| Builder | Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan |
| Laid down | 1 March 1906 |
| Launched | 16 March 1907 |
| Commissioned | 25 June 1908 |
| Out of service | February 1919 |
| Stricken | 31 March 1920 |
| Fate | Sold for scrap, 1 December 1921 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Invincible-class battlecruiser |
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| Length | 567 ft (172.8 m) |
| Beam | 78 ft 7.75 in (23.97 m) |
| Draught | 29 ft 9.5 in (9.08 m) (deep load) |
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| Propulsion | 4 shafts, 2 steam turbine sets |
| Speed | 25.5 knots (47.2 km/h; 29.3 mph) |
| Range | 3,090 nmi (5,720 km; 3,560 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement | 784 (up to 1000 in wartime) |
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