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 brainchild of Admiral Sir John Fisher, the man wh
An early photograph of Invincible, before her torpedo nets were removed
The guns of 'P' and 'Q' turrets trained across the deck
4-inch guns seen mounted on roof of Inflexible's Q turret, 1909
Invincible during the pursuit of the German cruiser squadron
HMS Invincible (1907)
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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 first battlecruiser to be built by any country i
Invincible-class battlecruiser
…able to use their speed to run down smaller and weaker ships. The classic example was during World War I at the Battle of the Falkland Islands, where Invincible and Inflexible sank the German armoured cruisers SMS Scharnhorst and SMS Gneisenau; despite numerous hits by the German ships, Inflexible and Invincible…
Invincible anchored at Spithead in June–July 1909
Invincible exploding at Jutland, taken from a destroyer nearby.
The two shattered halves of Invincible temporarily standing on the seabed