INVINCIBLE battlecruiser 1907

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INVINCIBLE battlecruiser 1907

Post by shipstamps » Thu Oct 02, 2008 3:10 pm

Built as a battlecruiser under yard No 785 by W.G.Armstrong, Whitworth & Co., Ltd, Elswick, Clydebank for the Royal Navy.
01 April 1906 keel laid down.
13 April 1907 at 15.00 launched under the name HMS INVINCIBLE, launched by Lady Allendale, one of the Invincible class, two sisters the INFLEXIBLE and INDOMITABLE.
Displacement: 17.482 ton, dim. 172.8 x 23.9 x 7.9m. (draught)
Powered by Parsons turbines, 41.000 shp., four shafts, speed 25 knots.
Bunker capacity 2.928 tons coal and 748 tons oil. Average consumption by full speed 500 tons coal and 125 tons of oil.
Range 6.330 miles by 10 knots.
Armament: 8 – 12 inch, 16 – 4 inch QF guns, 7 – Maxim M.G. 5 – 18 inch torpedo tubes, four broadside one stern all submerged.
Complement 784 in peace.
15 March 1909 she made her final trials. Trial speed by 46.500shp= 26.64 knots.
18 March she sailed from the Tyne to Portsmouth
20 March 1909 commissioned at Portsmouth. Building cost about £1.725.000.

28 December 1908 during fitting out the collier ODEN collided with her, and damaged some beams and frames in the hull and five bottom plates dented.
During her delivery voyage to Portsmouth, she collided with the brigantine MARY ANN, without much damage.

During April and June 1909 she took part in fleet maneuvers, and the Spithead Review on 12 June 1909, and the Fleet Review on 02 July 1909 off Southend.
Thereafter in the 1st Cruiser Squadron until 1913, then in the 1st Batllecruiser Squadron in the Mediterranean service.
17 March 1913 in collision with the British submarine C34.
By outbreak of World War I was she the flagship of the 1st Battlecruiser Squadron
28 August 1914 took part in the Battle of Helgoland Bight, the first naval battle during World War I.
Then reassigned to the Grand Fleet’s Second Battle Cruiser Squadron, and after the Battle of Coronel she became the flagship of Admiral Sir Frederick Doveton Sturdee and he got orders to proceed together with the INFLEXBLE to a position 30 miles off the Brazilian coast, where they met the cruisers CARNARVON, KENT, CORNWALL, BRISTOL and GLASGOW.
The squadron sailed then full speed to the Falkland Islands to intercept von Spee’s squadron.
The squadron arrived at Port Stanley on 07 December 1914, and at once commenced coaling. Still coaling the German squadron arrived the next morning off the Falklands.
In the battle what followed the INVINCIBLE was hit twenty-two times, two times under the waterline, one crew member was killed in the battle.

March 1915 she returned to the Second Battle Squadron in the Grand Fleet, and in May 1915 she became flagship of Admiral Hood’s Third Battle Cruiser Squadron.

Took part in the Battle of Jutland on 31 May 1916 and together with INDOMITABLE and INFLEXIBLE steamed ahead of Admiral Sir John Jellicoe’s Grand Fleet.
The INVINCIBLE came under heavy fire from the German ships DERFFLINGER, LÜTZOW and KÖNING, and received a number of salvos in quick succession and after a hit at 18.33 on Q turret. The antiflash devices between turret and magazines was inadequate and she was blown in two parts and sank in position 75 02N 06 07E taken with her 1.021men under which Rear Admiral Hood and the Flag Captain A.L.Cay, of her crew only 2 officers and four ratings were rescued by the destroyer BADGER.

On Falkland Islands 1964 2½d sg 217, 1974 20p sg 305, 1983 20p sg 444, 1989 10p sg 593.
Turks and Caicos Islands 1983 65c sg a778.

Sources: Jane’s 1914. Ships of the World by Paine. Dictionary of Disasters at Sea during the age of steam.
Ships of the Royal navy by J J Colledge. Warships for Export by P. Brook. British Battleships 1892-1957 by R. Pears. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_INVINCIBLE_(1907)
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AndyS
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Re: INVINCIBLE battlecruiser 1909

Post by AndyS » Sun Oct 31, 2010 7:47 am

I may be reading this wrong (head office address v yard address?) but I am sure that Invincible was not built on the Clyde, as quoted, "Built as a battlecruiser under yard No 785 by W.G.Armstrong, Whitworth & Co., Ltd, Elswick, Clydebank for the Royal Navy." She was actually built on Tyneside (see other entry) by Armstorng & Co.


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Re: INVINCIBLE battlecruiser 1909

Post by aukepalmhof » Sun Oct 31, 2010 9:35 am

You are correct it was Tyneside.
Delandre labels.
Falkland Islands 2014 75p sg?, scott? 1983 20p sg 444, scott?

On the 20p stamp, the HMS INVINCIBLE is shown approaching the German fleet at a speed of 25 knots, during the first Battle of the Falkland Islands in 1914.
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Re: INVINCIBLE battlecruiser 1907

Post by D. v. Nieuwenhuijzen » Fri Dec 22, 2017 7:51 pm

The ships in view are (Left to Right) H.M.S. Carnarvon, H.M.S. Invincible, H.M.S. Inflexible
Falkland Islands 2017, £1.01, StG.?
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