HMS Indomitable (1907)

Illustration of Indomitable in 1908
History
RN EnsignUnited Kingdom
NameIndomitable
Ordered1906 Naval Programme
BuilderFairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan
Laid down1 March 1906
Launched16 March 1907
Commissioned25 June 1908
Out of serviceFebruary 1919
Stricken31 March 1920
FateSold for scrap, 1 December 1921
General characteristics
Class and typeInvincible-class battlecruiser
Displacement
Length567 ft (172.8 m)
Beam78 ft 7.75 in (23.97 m)
Draught29 ft 9.5 in (9.08 m) (deep load)
Installed power
Propulsion4 shafts, 2 steam turbine sets
Speed25.5 knots (47.2 km/h; 29.3 mph)
Range3,090 nmi (5,720 km; 3,560 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement784 (up to 1000 in wartime)
Armament
Armour

HMS Indomitable 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 ships Goeben and Breslau in the Mediterranean when war broke out and bombarded Turkish fortifications protecting the Dardanelles even before the British declared war on Turkey. She helped to sink the German armoured cruiser Blücher during the Battle of Dogger Bank in 1915 and towed the damaged British battlecruiser HMS Lion to safety after the battle. She damaged the German battlecruisers Seydlitz and Derfflinger during the Battle of Jutland in mid-1916 and watched her sister ship HMS Invincible explode. Deemed obsolete after the war, she was sold for scrap in 1921.