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 Inflexible (1907)
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HMS Inflexible 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 battlecruiser SMS
Invincible-class battlecruiser
…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 incurred very…
Inflexible in New York City, 1909
Inflexible in full profile
Inflexible recovering survivors from the Gneisenau