#invincible class

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Star Wars: Han Solo and the Corporate Sector Sourcebook - Invincible Class Dreadnought by Tim Eldred

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HMS Inflexible, one of the first battlecruisers, pulling out of Malta on 27 March 1913.

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One of three sisters forming the Invincible-class, HMS Inflexible was the second of the world's first battlecruisers commissioned. With the order placed alongside the more famous Dreadnought as part of the 1905–06 Naval Programme, the trade off was armour for speed, while retaining the monstrous guns. Tactically, the concept would provide a heavily armoured scouting fleet, versatile in the opening hours of a major fleet vs. fleet action. They could bait their opponents toward the tempest of their navy’s own main battle line or run down their enemy in retreat.

The adoption of the concept by the Imperial German Navy meant ships with battleship guns but without battleship armour would clash - leading to catastrophic magazine detonations at the Battle of Jutland in 1916 - where Inflexible saw her sister Invincible cease to exist. Here she is in happier days however, in New York City, ca. 1909. It would seem she drew a substantial crowd.