HMS Indomitable (1907)

Illustration of Indomitable in 1908
History
United Kingdom
Name	Indomitable
Ordered	1906 Naval Programme
Builder	Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan
Laid down	1 March 1906
Launched	16 March 1907
Commissioned	25 June 1908
Out of service	February 1919
Stricken	31 March 1920
Fate	Sold for scrap, 1 December 1921
General characteristics
Class and type	Invincible-class battlecruiser
Displacement	17,408 long tons (17,687 t) (normal) 20,722 long tons (21,055 t) (deep load)
Length	567 ft (172.8 m)
Beam	78 ft 7.75 in (23.97 m)
Draught	29 ft 9.5 in (9.08 m) (deep load)
Installed power	31 Babcock & Wilcox boilers 41,000 shp (31,000 kW)
Propulsion	4 shafts, 2 steam turbine sets
Speed	25.5 knots (47.2 km/h; 29.3 mph)
Range	3,090 nmi (5,720 km; 3,560 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement	784 (up to 1000 in wartime)
Armament	4 × twin 12 in (305 mm) guns 16 × single 4 in (102 mm) guns 5 × 18 in (450 mm) torpedo tubes
Armour	Belt: 4–6 in (102–152 mm) Decks: 1.5–2.5 in (38–64 mm) Barbettes: 7 in (178 mm) Turrets: 7 in (178 mm) Conning tower: 6–10 in (152–254 mm) Torpedo bulkheads: 2.5 in (64 mm)

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.