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HMS Queen Mary was the last battlecruiser built by the Royal Navy before the First World War. The sole member of her class , Queen Mary shared many features with the Lion -class battlecruisers, including her eight 13.5-inch (343 mm) guns.
HMS Queen Mary underway. HMS Queen Mary was similar to the Lion-class battlecruisers, though she was slightly larger and given more powerful engines to achieve the same speed as the earlier ships. Her secondary guns were better protected and some of her belt armour was redistributed.
HMS Queen Mary (sunk 31 May): Capt Cecil Prowse HMS Tiger: Capt Henry Bertram Pelly. 2nd Battlecruiser Squadron: [s] Rear Admiral William Pakenham, HMS New Zealand (flagship): Capt John Green; HMS Indefatigable (sunk 31 May): Capt Charles Fitzgerald Sowerby
HMS Implacable; HMS Irresistible; HMS Formidable; HMS London; HMS Queen; HMS Venerable; Following the loss of HMS Bulwark in 1914, HMS Lord Nelson and Agamemnon were transferred from the 6th Battle Squadron. With the commissioning of the five fast battleships of the Queen Elizabeth class, the remaining pre-dreadnoughts were sent to the ...
Tiger was the sole battlecruiser authorised in the 1911–12 Naval Programme. According to naval historian Siegfried Breyer, a sister ship named Leopard was considered in the 1912–13 Programme and deferred until 1914 as a sixth member of the Queen Elizabeth class, [2] but there is no record of any additional battlecruiser being provided for in any naval estimates before 1914.
The Allied cruiser squadron, supported by the battleship HMS Warspite altered their course northward, and at 15:20, Sydney opened fire on an Italian Zara-class cruiser, 23,000 yards (21,000 m) distant, but both the Allied and Italian cruiser forces were unable to successfully hit their opposing numbers. [64]
At 16:26, HMS Queen Mary sank after a magazine explosion that tore the ship apart; she had been targeted with a hail of heavy-caliber gunfire from Derfflinger and Seydlitz. Two hours later, at 18:30, HMS Invincible suffered a similar fate, though Derfflinger was assisted by her sister Lützow.
Early in the action, Queen Mary was lost and all but a small number of her crew were killed. Two other battlecruisers—Invincible and Indefatigable—were sunk during the battle. The squadron's losses were made up for by the arrival of the new battlecruisers Repulse and Renown in September 1916 and January 1917 respectively. [6]