| Name: | INVINCIBLE |
| Type: | Battlecruiser |
| Keel: | 01/04/1906 |
| Launched: | 13/04/1907 |
| Completed: | 15/03/1909 |
| Builder: | Armstrong, Whitworth & Co |
| Yard: | Elswick |
| Yard Number: | 785 |
| Dimensions: | 17482disp - 20420disp, 530.0 x 78.4 x 26.0(draft)ft |
| Engines: | 4 x Steam turbines, Parsons type, 46500shp |
| Engines by: | Humphrys, Tennant & Co, Deptford |
| Propulsion: | 4 x Screws, 26.6knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Armament: | 4 x 2 x 12.0ins and 16 x 1 x 4.0ins QF guns; |
| 5 x 18.0ins torpedoes (1 x aft, 2 x 2 x broadside) | |
| History: | |
| 15/03/1909 | British Royal Navy |
| 31/05/1916 | Sank |
| Comments: | The turbines were actually subcontracted to John Brown & Co Ltd, Glasgow |
| 31/05/1916: Hit by 11.0ins shells from LUTZOW & DERFFINGER at the Battle of Jutland | |
| Shell penetrated the front of Q turret, blew off roof & detonated the midships magazines | |
| She immediately broke in two & sank. 1026 crew died |
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