HMS Queen Mary
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HMS Queen Mary was the last 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, includin
Queen Mary at sea with torpedo net booms folded against her side
Queen Mary leaving the River Tyne, 1913
Launch of Queen Mary at Palmer's Shipbuilding
Queen Mary explodes during the Battle of Jutland
SMS Derfflinger
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SMS Derfflinger was a battlecruiser of the German Kaiserliche Marine built in the early 1910s during the Anglo-German naval arms race. She was the lead ship of her class of three ships; her sister shi
HMS Queen Mary
…in January, but took part in the largest fleet action of the war, the Battle of Jutland in mid-1916. She was struck twice by the German battlecruiser Derfflinger during the early part of the battle and her magazines exploded shortly afterwards, sinking her with the loss of 1,266 of her 1,286 crew members. Her…
Blücher capsizes.
The German battlecruisers bombard Lowestoft
Derfflinger fires a broadside salvo.
Queen Mary explodes under concentrated salvos from Seydlitz and Derfflinger