HMS Princess Royal was the second of two Lion-class battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy before the First World War. Designed in response to the Moltke-class battlecruisers of the Imperial German N
Princess Royal
A 3-inch 20 cwt AA gun on the quarterdeck of HMAS Australia
Princess Royal and the Russian cruiser Admiral Makarov at Kronstadt, June 1914
The Battle of Jutland was a naval battle between Britain's Royal Navy Grand Fleet, under Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, and the Imperial German Navy's High Seas Fleet, under Vice-Admiral Reinhard Scheer,
Reinhard Scheer, German fleet commander
John Jellicoe, British fleet commander
David Beatty, commander of the British battlecruiser fleet
HMS Warspite and Malaya, seen from HMS Valiant at around 14:00 hrs