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 nominally designed to support the Baltic Proje
Courageous as a battlecruiser during the First World War
Right elevation and plan view of the Courageous class from Brassey's Naval Annual 1923
Furious had a single 18-inch gun fitted
Furious as originally completed
1st Battlecruiser Squadron
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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 was created in 1909 as the First Cruiser Squadro
HMS Repulse
The squadron in Kronstadt, Russia, in June 1914. HMS Boadicea is in the foreground