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Indomitable, 1907
Type: Battle Cruiser ; Armament 8 x 12" ; 16 x 4"
Launched : 16 Mar 1907 ; Disposal date or year : 1922
Displacement: 17250 tons
Complement: 837
Machinery notes: Designed H.P. 41,000 = 25 kts. Trials 43,780 = 25.3
Notes:

10 Feb 1914 Recommissioned at Sheerness

24 Jul 1914 arrived at Malta, from Beirut, for refit - see p. 461 www.naval-review.org/issues/1915-3.pdf.

2 Aug 1914 departed Malta for the NE - search for Goeben - see p. 110-> www.naval-review.org/issues/1919-1.pdf.

3 Aug 1914 0615. Altered course to north-westerly, for Straits of Messina - see p. 514 www.naval-review.org/issues/1919-4.pdf.

24 Jan 1915 in action off Dogger Bank - see p. 151 www.naval-review.org/issues/1917.pdf.

30 May 1916 Left Pentland Firth - see p. 127 www.naval-review.org/issues/1919-1.pdf.

18 Aug 1916 at Rosyth (?) - see p. 74 www.naval-review.org/issues/1920-1.pdf.

To be sold 1919

Gunnery Notes: Amidship turrets are very cramped together, and broadside of 8 - 12 inch can only be rarely fired. Armour Notes: Internal magazine screens not continuous between end barbettes. Torpedo Notes: Stern tube removed during war. General Notes: Begun under 1905-6 Estimates. Average cost of each, about £1,752,000 = £101.6 per ton. These ships at full speed burn about 500 tons of coal a day, plus about 125 tons of oil. They are not very steady gun platforms Average cost of machinery, about £472,000. Invincible of this class lost in Battle of Jutland . Inflexible severely damaged by a mine in the bombardment of the Dardanelles, March 18th, 1915. Placed in Reserve. 1919.