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== Description ==
 
== Description ==
 
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The brainchild of First Sea Lord "Jacky" Fisher, the Invincible class were the first battlecruisers ever to be built, pioneering the design which was based around the idea of an enlarged and upgunned armoured cruiser that should have the firepower and protection to devastate enemy cruisers and raiders, yet be fast enough to outrun opposing battleships. Built between 1906 and 1909, the Invincible class formed the foundation of this new type of ship which became a key part of the ongoing Anglo-German naval arms race.
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The '''{{Specs|name}}''' is a rank {{Specs|rank}} British battlecruiser {{Battle-rating}}. It was introduced in [[Update "Hot Tracks"]].
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HMS ''Invincible'' was laid down on 2 April 1906, launched on 13 April 1907, and commissioned on 20 March 1909. At the start of World War I, she took part in the Battle of the Heligoland Bight, then was transferred to the West Indies, where she participated in the Battle of the Falkland Islands, destroying a German squadron consisting of obsolete battleships and light cruiser alongside her sister ship ''Inflexible''. In February 1915, she returned to Britain, becoming the flagship of the Third Battlecruiser Squadron. During the Battle of Jutland on 31 May 1916, ''Invincible'' was sunk after a short duel with SMS ''Derfflinger''.
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Introduced in [[Update "Hot Tracks"]], HMS ''Invincible'' is presented in her 1916 refit. She is a typical representative of the large World War I-era warships in the game, with minimal AA defences and mediocre anti-torpedo protection, and generally weak armour for such a large vessel. However, as a representative of the battlecruiser class, she boasts decent mobility.
  
 
== General info ==
 
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HMS Invincible is a 20,000t vessel with 1,032 crew members, an average crew count for a battlecruiser. The ship has a 150 mm main armour belt which is backed up by 50 mm of turtleback armour and an array of coal bunkers. The main turrets have 177 mm armour on turret faces and barbettes.
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This leaves the ship reasonably resistant to 152 mm and 203 mm shells at long to medium ranges, nevertheless enemy battleships with their much larger cannons will have little trouble cleaving through your protection at any practical range. The armour is ineffective at stopping shells of a calibre larger than 283 mm. The lack of AA guns and rather thin deck armour is insufficient when it comes to fending off strike aircraft.
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Whilst the belt armour does extend far enough below the waterline to give some level of protection from shallow torpedoes, the ship is still vulnerable to torpedoes which hit below the belt armour.
  
 
=== Mobility ===
 
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HMS Invincible is armed with eight BL 12-inch Mk X cannons across four twin turrets. One is placed on the bow, one on the stern, and two amidships on the port and starboard wings. The allows for a full broadside of all eight guns, with the bow and stern turrets allowing for +/- 150 degrees of traverse, while the wing turrets only allow +180/-120 due to the placement of the funnels and the surrounding superstructure, which restrict cross-deck fire significantly. Fire control is on par with the preceding Courageous class [[HMS Glorious]] and other first-world war-era ships. The maximum fire rate is two rounds per minute per barrel with an ace crew.
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The BL 12-inch MK X cannon can fire three types of shell: HE Mk IIa, SAPCBC Mk VIIa, and APC Mk VIa. The HE Mk IIa shell holds an above-average 51.3 kg bursting charge for twelve-inch guns, resulting in the ability to wreak havoc on light vessels such as destroyers and some light cruisers. The SAPCBC Mk VIIa shell balances the penetration of the APC and the large amount of explosive of the HE shell, and thus it is best suited for dealing with medium-armoured opponents such as cruisers, with a bursting charge of 36.3 kg and 240mm of penetration at 2,500 m. However, it is lacking penetration for dealing with heavy battleship amour. The APC Mk VIa trades the high explosive bursting charge of the SAPCBC and HE for amour penetration and thus is the main shell for dealing with heavily armoured opponents such as battleships. It contains a bursting charge of 13.2 kg, which is sub-par for dealing with light to medium opponents.{{:305 mm/45 Mark X (305 mm)/Ammunition|305 mm Mark IIa HE, 305 mm Mark VIa APC, 305 mm Mark VIIa SAPCBC}}
  
 
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HMS Invincible has a secondary armament of twelve 4 Inch/40 QF Mk III cannons placed in eight casemate mounts on the forward superstructure, and four open mounts on the rear superstructure. These have a fire rate of 20 rounds per minute with an ace-crew.
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These guns can fire either HE or SAP, with both types of shells having a small bursting charge owing to their small calibre, resulting in the ability to damage destroyers, but not inflict serous damage on cruisers and battleships.
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HMS invincible only has a single 3 inch 20cwt gun mounted for anti-aircraft purpose. It is placed at the stern of the ship, and can only fire HE, severely limiting its usefulness as an anti-air weapon, as it lacks both ammunition, weight of fire, and good firing arcs.  
  
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HMS invincible is armed with 5 underwater fixed 18 inch torpedo tubes, with one placed forward along the broadside, one placed aft on the broadside, and one on the stern looking backwards. This results in a total torpedo broadside of 2 torpedoes before a reload is needed.
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These fire the R.G.F Mk VI** torpedo traveling 5.49 km at 56 km/h with a 134kg warhead.  
  
 
== Usage in battles ==
 
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=== Pros and cons ===
 
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* Main battery of eight 305 mm guns with access to SAP rounds can make short work of enemy cruisers, and APC can punish larger targets.
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* Main battery of eight 305 mm guns with access to SAP rounds can make short work of enemy cruisers, and APC can punish larger targets
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* Faster than the other 6.0 capital ships, inferior only to [[SMS Von der Tann]] in terms of top speed.
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* Faster than the other capital ships, inferior only to [[SMS Von der Tann]] in terms of top speed
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* Belt armour can shrug off medium calibre gunfire from cruisers and destroyers, and extends below the waterline to give protection against shallow torpedoes.
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* Belt armour can shrug off medium calibre gunfire from cruisers and destroyers, and extends below the waterline to give protection against shallow torpedoes
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* Shell rooms are well below the waterline and hard to hit with gunfire.
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* Numerous secondary battery guns with a high rate of fire that can easily deal with close range attacks from smaller unarmoured vessels.
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* Numerous secondary battery guns with a high rate of fire that can easily deal with close range attacks from smaller unarmoured vessels
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* Has underwater torpedo launchers, which can potentially catch close targets unaware
  
 
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* Vertical armour is very weak against large calibre guns from other capital ships; battleships can often cause crippling damage.
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* Vertical armour is very weak against large calibre guns from other capital ships; battleships can often cause crippling damage
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* Non-existent deck armour and extremely poor anti-aircraft armament makes ''Invincible'' highly vulnerable to bombers.
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* Non-existent deck armour and extremely poor anti-aircraft armament makes the Invincible highly vulnerable to bombers
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* 305 mm guns struggle to penetrate battleship belt armour beyond 10km, and the APC rounds suffer from poor post-penetration damage
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* Underwater torpedoes have low range and a relatively small warhead in comparison to most deck mounted torpedoes aboard cruisers and destroyers
  
 
== History ==
 
== History ==
 
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[[File:HMS Invincible (1907) British Battleship.jpg|thumb|600x600px|A photograph of HMS Invincible, the first British Battlecruiser, in 1907.]]
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HMS Invincible was the lead ship of her class of three battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy. She was the first modern battlecruiser ever built, and pioneered the ship type, featuring less armour in exchange for more speed. Her construction led to a "battlecruiser arms race", including ships such as the German [[SMS Von der Tann|Von Der Tann]] and Derflingger classes as well as the Japanese Kongo class. During the First World War, Invincible participated in the Battle of the Heligoland Bight, as well as the Falklands Battle where she and her sister ship Inflexible sank the armoured cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. She ultimately met her demise at the Battle of Jutland, when her magazines detonated following hits from the German force.
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=== Design and development ===
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Invincible, as the first battlecruiser ever built, was the brainchild of First Sea Lord Jackie Fisher, who was responsible for a wide range of innovations including the Dreadnought. The ships were designed to be fast, with a top speed of 25 knots (46 km/h), but also extremely well armed, with a main battery of 12 inch (305 mm) guns. However, this came at the expense of armour, meaning that Invincible had a weaker armour protection compared to the dreadnoughts. The massive 41 000 horsepower engines that powered the Invincible took up a massive amount of space inside the hull, requiring a reduction in armour.
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Invincible, being a larger vessel than her armoured-cruiser predecessors, displaced over 20 000 tons at full load. She had an armament of eight 12 inch (305 mm) guns in four twin turrets, with one fore, one aft, and two on beam positions. The turrets were placed in a position so that all four turrets could fire on a broadside. Invincible carried a secondary armament of twelve 4 inch 40 QF naval guns in single mounts, placed across the fore and rear superstructures. She carried a single 76 mm and 47 mm gun for anti-aircraft defence, as well as four 450 mm torpedoes. Invincible was laid down in April of 1906, and launched a year later in 1907. She was fully commissioned in 1909 and entered service with the 1st Cruiser Squadron of the British Grand Fleet.
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=== Operational History ===
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Invincible entered service with the British Grand Fleet and participated in fleet manoeuvres along with the rest of the fleet. However, it was apparent during her early service that her main turrets were problematic as the faulty electric turret horizontal drives prevented them from turning properly. As a result, the battlecruiser spent much of late 1913 and early 1914 in dock, receiving new, hydraulic turret drives to replace her electric ones. She was also fitted with a new ranging fire director, but this had not been completed by the time of the outbreak of the First World War.
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Following the start of the First World War, Invincible saw her first action at the Battle of Heligoland Bight. There, she fired 18 rounds at the crippled cruiser Cöln, but failed to obtain hits. Later, Invincible participated in a more important action, the Battle of the Falklands. As part of the British West Indies squadron commanded by Rear Admiral Christopher Cradock, she steamed from Port Stanley (in the Falklands) with her sister ship Inflexible to intercept the German squadron led by Admiral Von Spee; Spee's cruiser squadron, led by armoured cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, attempted to attack the British base at Port Stanley hours before. As the battlecruisers had a 5-knot advantage over the German armoured cruisers, they quickly caught up and began straddling the German cruisers with 12 inch shells. After a several hour long battle, both Scharnhorst and Gneisenau were sunk, the former with no survivors. Invincible was hit numerous times, but suffered no significant damage.
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After the Falklands battle, Invincible returned to Port Stanley for repairs, followed by a more lengthy refit at Gibraltar. During this time, her ranging director was completed (it had been left unfinished with the outbreak of war) and her funnel was extended to reduce the amount of smoke entering the bridge and forward superstructure.
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[[File:InvincibleBlowingUpJutland1916.jpg|thumb|500x500px|HMS Invincible blowing up after a German shell detonated her ammunition magazines.]]
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Invincible ultimately met her demise at the Battle of Jutland in 1916, just a year after she sank the cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau at the Falklands. In May of that year, she was assigned to Admiral Beatty's battlecruiser group and ordered to cruise into the north seas to intercept a potential breakout of the German fleet. Soon after, Invincible, along with her sister ships Inflexible and Indomitable, spotted a group of seven enemy ships including two armoured cruisers and promptly fired upon them. They succeeded in crippling the cruiser Wiesbaden with a hit to the engine room, as well as a similar heavy hit to the cruiser Pillau.
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Soon after, Beatty's battlecruisers spotted the German battlecruiser line, and promptly opened fire on the battlecruisers Lutzow and Derfflinger. Invincible hit Lutzow twice beneath the waterline, which would eventually lead to her demise. However, she ended up directly in front of Lutzow and Derfllinger, who fired several salvoes at her. One of these shots hit the ship's midships 12 inch shell magazines, which exploded and blew the ship in half. Almost her entire crew of 1026 were killed, including her commanding officer Rear Admiral Horace Hood; six survivors were rescued by escorting destroyers. Hood's widow would later launch the battlecruiser/fast battleship HMS Hood, the heaviest battleship in the world for 20 years.
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Invincible lies at a depth of 55 metres in the North Sea, cut in half by the massive magazine explosion that doomed her. Her wreck is protected by the Protection of Military Remains act of 1986.
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HMS Invincible was laid down in April 1906 as the lead ship of her class of three new armoured cruisers, intended to replace the preceding Minotaur-class. The ship was launched a year later and completed in March 1909, subsequently being commissioned into service with the Royal Navy. Thereafter, HMS Invincible took part in fleet maneuvers and several reviews before being sent to drydock for refit. In 1911, the warship was officially redesignated into a battlecruiser, thus becoming the first ship of this kind.
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HMS Invincible was laid down in April 1906 as the lead ship of her class of three new armoured cruisers, intended to replace the preceding Minotaur-class. The ship was launched a year later and completed in March 1909, subsequently being commissioned into service with the Royal Navy. Thereafter, HMS Invincible took part in fleet manoeuvres and several reviews before being sent to drydock for refit. In 1911, the warship was officially redesignated into a battlecruiser, thus becoming the first ship of this kind.
  
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In 1913, HMS Invincible was ordered to the dockyard once more to replace her electrically powered turret traverse mechanisms with hydraulic ones in order to fix ongoing problems and make the ship battle-worthy. However, while works were still being undertaken, the declaration of war on Germany in August 1914 signaled the start of WWI and HMS Invincible was quickly recommissioned.
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In 1913, HMS Invincible was ordered to the dockyard once more to replace her electrically powered turret traverse mechanisms with hydraulic ones in order to fix ongoing problems and make the ship battle-worthy. However, while works were still being undertaken, the declaration of war on Germany in August 1914 signalled the start of WWI and HMS Invincible was quickly recommissioned.
  
 
Already at the outbreak of the conflict, HMS Invincible saw herself in the thick of the action, engaging German ships at the Battle of Heligoland Bight in late August 1914. Later that year, in December, HMS Invincible, along with her sister ship HMS Inflexible, took part in the Battle of the Falkland Islands, sinking the two German armoured cruisers, Gneisenau and Scharnhorst, during the engagement.
 
Already at the outbreak of the conflict, HMS Invincible saw herself in the thick of the action, engaging German ships at the Battle of Heligoland Bight in late August 1914. Later that year, in December, HMS Invincible, along with her sister ship HMS Inflexible, took part in the Battle of the Falkland Islands, sinking the two German armoured cruisers, Gneisenau and Scharnhorst, during the engagement.
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== See also ==
 
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* [[wt:en/news/6974-development-heroes-of-jutland-hms-invincible-en|[Devblog] Heroes of Jutland: HMS Invincible]]
  
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* Bowman, C. (2016, July 23). Dive on the wreck of HMS Invincible (Watch). Retrieved January 04, 2021, from <nowiki>https://www.warhistoryonline.com/featured/dive-wreck-hms-invincible.html</nowiki>
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* Naval Encyclopedia. (2020, October 15). Invincible class battlecruisers (1907). Retrieved January 04, 2021, from <nowiki>https://www.naval-encyclopedia.com/ww1/UK/invincible-class-battlecruisers/</nowiki>
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HMS Invincible
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HMS Invincible
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Description

The brainchild of First Sea Lord "Jacky" Fisher, the Invincible class were the first battlecruisers ever to be built, pioneering the design which was based around the idea of an enlarged and upgunned armoured cruiser that should have the firepower and protection to devastate enemy cruisers and raiders, yet be fast enough to outrun opposing battleships. Built between 1906 and 1909, the Invincible class formed the foundation of this new type of ship which became a key part of the ongoing Anglo-German naval arms race.

HMS Invincible was laid down on 2 April 1906, launched on 13 April 1907, and commissioned on 20 March 1909. At the start of World War I, she took part in the Battle of the Heligoland Bight, then was transferred to the West Indies, where she participated in the Battle of the Falkland Islands, destroying a German squadron consisting of obsolete battleships and light cruiser alongside her sister ship Inflexible. In February 1915, she returned to Britain, becoming the flagship of the Third Battlecruiser Squadron. During the Battle of Jutland on 31 May 1916, Invincible was sunk after a short duel with SMS Derfflinger.

Introduced in Update "Hot Tracks", HMS Invincible is presented in her 1916 refit. She is a typical representative of the large World War I-era warships in the game, with minimal AA defences and mediocre anti-torpedo protection, and generally weak armour for such a large vessel. However, as a representative of the battlecruiser class, she boasts decent mobility.

General info

Survivability and armour

Armourfront / side / back
Citadel178 / 152 / 38 mm
Main fire tower178 / 178 / 178 mm
Hull25 mm (steel)
Superstructure16 mm (steel)
Number of section10
Displacement20 135 t
Crew1 032 people

HMS Invincible is a 20,000t vessel with 1,032 crew members, an average crew count for a battlecruiser. The ship has a 150 mm main armour belt which is backed up by 50 mm of turtleback armour and an array of coal bunkers. The main turrets have 177 mm armour on turret faces and barbettes.

This leaves the ship reasonably resistant to 152 mm and 203 mm shells at long to medium ranges, nevertheless enemy battleships with their much larger cannons will have little trouble cleaving through your protection at any practical range. The armour is ineffective at stopping shells of a calibre larger than 283 mm. The lack of AA guns and rather thin deck armour is insufficient when it comes to fending off strike aircraft.

Whilst the belt armour does extend far enough below the waterline to give some level of protection from shallow torpedoes, the ship is still vulnerable to torpedoes which hit below the belt armour.

Mobility

Speedforward / back
AB58 / 28 km/h
RB49 / 24 km/h

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Mobility Characteristics
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Forward Reverse
AB Stock ___ ___
Upgraded 58 28
RB/SB Stock ___ ___
Upgraded 49 24

Modifications and economy

Repair costBasic → Reference
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RB28 736 → 36 092 Sl icon.png
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Talisman cost2 000 Ge icon.png
Crew training140 000 Sl icon.png
Experts490 000 Sl icon.png
Aces1 500 Ge icon.png
Research Aces670 000 Rp icon.png
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Armament

Primary armament

4 х Turret2 x 305 mm/45 Mark X cannon
Ammunition220 rounds
Vertical guidance-3° / 13°
Main article: 305 mm/45 Mark X (305 mm)

HMS Invincible is armed with eight BL 12-inch Mk X cannons across four twin turrets. One is placed on the bow, one on the stern, and two amidships on the port and starboard wings. The allows for a full broadside of all eight guns, with the bow and stern turrets allowing for +/- 150 degrees of traverse, while the wing turrets only allow +180/-120 due to the placement of the funnels and the surrounding superstructure, which restrict cross-deck fire significantly. Fire control is on par with the preceding Courageous class HMS Glorious and other first-world war-era ships. The maximum fire rate is two rounds per minute per barrel with an ace crew.

The BL 12-inch MK X cannon can fire three types of shell: HE Mk IIa, SAPCBC Mk VIIa, and APC Mk VIa. The HE Mk IIa shell holds an above-average 51.3 kg bursting charge for twelve-inch guns, resulting in the ability to wreak havoc on light vessels such as destroyers and some light cruisers. The SAPCBC Mk VIIa shell balances the penetration of the APC and the large amount of explosive of the HE shell, and thus it is best suited for dealing with medium-armoured opponents such as cruisers, with a bursting charge of 36.3 kg and 240mm of penetration at 2,500 m. However, it is lacking penetration for dealing with heavy battleship amour. The APC Mk VIa trades the high explosive bursting charge of the SAPCBC and HE for amour penetration and thus is the main shell for dealing with heavily armoured opponents such as battleships. It contains a bursting charge of 13.2 kg, which is sub-par for dealing with light to medium opponents.

Penetration statistics
Ammunition Type of
warhead 		Penetration @ 0° Angle of Attack (mm)
1,000 m 2,500 m 5,000 m 7,500 m 10,000 m 15,000 m
Mark IIa HE HE 72 72 72 72 72 72
Mark VIa APC APC 501 453 394 352 321 280
Mark VIIa SAPCBC SAPCBC 266 240 209 186 170 148
Shell details
Ammunition Type of
warhead 		Velocity
(m/s) 		Projectile
mass (kg) 		Fuse delay
(s) 		Fuse sensitivity
(mm) 		Explosive mass
(TNT equivalent) (kg) 		Ricochet
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Mark IIa HE HE 831 386 0 0.1 53.13 79° 80° 81°
Mark VIa APC APC 831 389.8 0.025 17 13.2 48° 63° 71°
Mark VIIa SAPCBC SAPCBC 831 386 0.035 17 36.3 48° 63° 71°

Secondary armament

12 х Turret4 inch/40 QF mark III cannon
Ammunition100 rounds
Main article: 4 inch/40 QF mark III (102 mm)

HMS Invincible has a secondary armament of twelve 4 Inch/40 QF Mk III cannons placed in eight casemate mounts on the forward superstructure, and four open mounts on the rear superstructure. These have a fire rate of 20 rounds per minute with an ace-crew.

These guns can fire either HE or SAP, with both types of shells having a small bursting charge owing to their small calibre, resulting in the ability to damage destroyers, but not inflict serous damage on cruisers and battleships.

Penetration statistics
Ammunition Type of
warhead 		Penetration @ 0° Angle of Attack (mm)
1,000 m 2,500 m 5,000 m 7,500 m 10,000 m 15,000 m
4 inch HE HE 11 11 11 11 11 11
4 inch SAP SAP 74 59 42 31 25 23
Shell details
Ammunition Type of
warhead 		Velocity
(m/s) 		Projectile
mass (kg) 		Fuse delay
(s) 		Fuse sensitivity
(mm) 		Explosive mass
(TNT equivalent) (g) 		Ricochet
0% 50% 100%
4 inch HE HE 701 14.06 0 0.1 721 79° 80° 81°
4 inch SAP SAP 701 15.2 0.015 5 520 47° 60° 65°

Anti-aircraft armament

Turret76 mm/45 QF 3in 20cwt HA Mark I cannon
Ammunition150 rounds
Turret3 pdr QF Hotchkiss cannon
Ammunition300 rounds
Main articles: 76 mm/45 QF 3in 20cwt HA Mark I (76 mm), 3 pdr QF Hotchkiss (47 mm)

HMS invincible only has a single 3 inch 20cwt gun mounted for anti-aircraft purpose. It is placed at the stern of the ship, and can only fire HE, severely limiting its usefulness as an anti-air weapon, as it lacks both ammunition, weight of fire, and good firing arcs.

Additional armament

Setup 128 x 450 mm R.G.F. Mark VI** torpedo
Main article: R.G.F. Mark VI** (450 mm)

HMS invincible is armed with 5 underwater fixed 18 inch torpedo tubes, with one placed forward along the broadside, one placed aft on the broadside, and one on the stern looking backwards. This results in a total torpedo broadside of 2 torpedoes before a reload is needed.

These fire the R.G.F Mk VI** torpedo traveling 5.49 km at 56 km/h with a 134kg warhead.

Usage in battles

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Pros and cons

Pros:

  • Main battery of eight 305 mm guns with access to SAP rounds can make short work of enemy cruisers, and APC can punish larger targets
  • Faster than the other capital ships, inferior only to SMS Von der Tann in terms of top speed
  • Belt armour can shrug off medium calibre gunfire from cruisers and destroyers, and extends below the waterline to give protection against shallow torpedoes
  • Shell rooms are well below the waterline and hard to hit with gunfire
  • Numerous secondary battery guns with a high rate of fire that can easily deal with close range attacks from smaller unarmoured vessels
  • Has underwater torpedo launchers, which can potentially catch close targets unaware

Cons:

  • Vertical armour is very weak against large calibre guns from other capital ships; battleships can often cause crippling damage
  • Non-existent deck armour and extremely poor anti-aircraft armament makes the Invincible highly vulnerable to bombers
  • 305 mm guns struggle to penetrate battleship belt armour beyond 10km, and the APC rounds suffer from poor post-penetration damage
  • Can only fire a full broadside while parallel to an opponent - Angling the ship will only allow a broadside of 6 guns
  • Secondary battery SAP shells have low penetration; the guns will struggle to damage even most light cruisers
  • Main battery turret armour is thin on the roof, often resulting in disabled turrets or damage gun breeches
  • Vulnerable to deep running torpedoes
  • Underwater torpedoes have low range and a relatively small warhead in comparison to most deck mounted torpedoes aboard cruisers and destroyers

History

A photograph of HMS Invincible, the first British Battlecruiser, in 1907.

HMS Invincible was the lead ship of her class of three battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy. She was the first modern battlecruiser ever built, and pioneered the ship type, featuring less armour in exchange for more speed. Her construction led to a "battlecruiser arms race", including ships such as the German Von Der Tann and Derflingger classes as well as the Japanese Kongo class. During the First World War, Invincible participated in the Battle of the Heligoland Bight, as well as the Falklands Battle where she and her sister ship Inflexible sank the armoured cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. She ultimately met her demise at the Battle of Jutland, when her magazines detonated following hits from the German force.

Design and development

Invincible, as the first battlecruiser ever built, was the brainchild of First Sea Lord Jackie Fisher, who was responsible for a wide range of innovations including the Dreadnought. The ships were designed to be fast, with a top speed of 25 knots (46 km/h), but also extremely well armed, with a main battery of 12 inch (305 mm) guns. However, this came at the expense of armour, meaning that Invincible had a weaker armour protection compared to the dreadnoughts. The massive 41 000 horsepower engines that powered the Invincible took up a massive amount of space inside the hull, requiring a reduction in armour.

Invincible, being a larger vessel than her armoured-cruiser predecessors, displaced over 20 000 tons at full load. She had an armament of eight 12 inch (305 mm) guns in four twin turrets, with one fore, one aft, and two on beam positions. The turrets were placed in a position so that all four turrets could fire on a broadside. Invincible carried a secondary armament of twelve 4 inch 40 QF naval guns in single mounts, placed across the fore and rear superstructures. She carried a single 76 mm and 47 mm gun for anti-aircraft defence, as well as four 450 mm torpedoes. Invincible was laid down in April of 1906, and launched a year later in 1907. She was fully commissioned in 1909 and entered service with the 1st Cruiser Squadron of the British Grand Fleet.

Operational History

Invincible entered service with the British Grand Fleet and participated in fleet manoeuvres along with the rest of the fleet. However, it was apparent during her early service that her main turrets were problematic as the faulty electric turret horizontal drives prevented them from turning properly. As a result, the battlecruiser spent much of late 1913 and early 1914 in dock, receiving new, hydraulic turret drives to replace her electric ones. She was also fitted with a new ranging fire director, but this had not been completed by the time of the outbreak of the First World War.

Heligoland Bight and the Falklands

Following the start of the First World War, Invincible saw her first action at the Battle of Heligoland Bight. There, she fired 18 rounds at the crippled cruiser Cöln, but failed to obtain hits. Later, Invincible participated in a more important action, the Battle of the Falklands. As part of the British West Indies squadron commanded by Rear Admiral Christopher Cradock, she steamed from Port Stanley (in the Falklands) with her sister ship Inflexible to intercept the German squadron led by Admiral Von Spee; Spee's cruiser squadron, led by armoured cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, attempted to attack the British base at Port Stanley hours before. As the battlecruisers had a 5-knot advantage over the German armoured cruisers, they quickly caught up and began straddling the German cruisers with 12 inch shells. After a several hour long battle, both Scharnhorst and Gneisenau were sunk, the former with no survivors. Invincible was hit numerous times, but suffered no significant damage.

After the Falklands battle, Invincible returned to Port Stanley for repairs, followed by a more lengthy refit at Gibraltar. During this time, her ranging director was completed (it had been left unfinished with the outbreak of war) and her funnel was extended to reduce the amount of smoke entering the bridge and forward superstructure.

Battle of Jutland and sinking

HMS Invincible blowing up after a German shell detonated her ammunition magazines.

Invincible ultimately met her demise at the Battle of Jutland in 1916, just a year after she sank the cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau at the Falklands. In May of that year, she was assigned to Admiral Beatty's battlecruiser group and ordered to cruise into the north seas to intercept a potential breakout of the German fleet. Soon after, Invincible, along with her sister ships Inflexible and Indomitable, spotted a group of seven enemy ships including two armoured cruisers and promptly fired upon them. They succeeded in crippling the cruiser Wiesbaden with a hit to the engine room, as well as a similar heavy hit to the cruiser Pillau.

Soon after, Beatty's battlecruisers spotted the German battlecruiser line, and promptly opened fire on the battlecruisers Lutzow and Derfflinger. Invincible hit Lutzow twice beneath the waterline, which would eventually lead to her demise. However, she ended up directly in front of Lutzow and Derfllinger, who fired several salvoes at her. One of these shots hit the ship's midships 12 inch shell magazines, which exploded and blew the ship in half. Almost her entire crew of 1026 were killed, including her commanding officer Rear Admiral Horace Hood; six survivors were rescued by escorting destroyers. Hood's widow would later launch the battlecruiser/fast battleship HMS Hood, the heaviest battleship in the world for 20 years.

Invincible lies at a depth of 55 metres in the North Sea, cut in half by the massive magazine explosion that doomed her. Her wreck is protected by the Protection of Military Remains act of 1986.

Devblog

HMS Invincible was laid down in April 1906 as the lead ship of her class of three new armoured cruisers, intended to replace the preceding Minotaur-class. The ship was launched a year later and completed in March 1909, subsequently being commissioned into service with the Royal Navy. Thereafter, HMS Invincible took part in fleet manoeuvres and several reviews before being sent to drydock for refit. In 1911, the warship was officially redesignated into a battlecruiser, thus becoming the first ship of this kind.

In 1913, HMS Invincible was ordered to the dockyard once more to replace her electrically powered turret traverse mechanisms with hydraulic ones in order to fix ongoing problems and make the ship battle-worthy. However, while works were still being undertaken, the declaration of war on Germany in August 1914 signalled the start of WWI and HMS Invincible was quickly recommissioned.

Already at the outbreak of the conflict, HMS Invincible saw herself in the thick of the action, engaging German ships at the Battle of Heligoland Bight in late August 1914. Later that year, in December, HMS Invincible, along with her sister ship HMS Inflexible, took part in the Battle of the Falkland Islands, sinking the two German armoured cruisers, Gneisenau and Scharnhorst, during the engagement.

HMS Invincible also took part in what would become her last engagement - the well-known Battle of Jutland in May 1916. During the battle, HMS Invincible was struck by fire coming from the German battlecruisers Lützow and Derfflinger, detonating her midships magazine and causing the warship to break in half.

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See also

Other WW1-era battlecruisers

External links

References

  • Bowman, C. (2016, July 23). Dive on the wreck of HMS Invincible (Watch). Retrieved January 04, 2021, from https://www.warhistoryonline.com/featured/dive-wreck-hms-invincible.html
  • Naval Encyclopedia. (2020, October 15). Invincible class battlecruisers (1907). Retrieved January 04, 2021, from https://www.naval-encyclopedia.com/ww1/UK/invincible-class-battlecruisers/


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