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|Ship image=[[Image:HMS Invincible (1907) British Battleship.jpg|300px|alt=A large grey warship with two tripod masts and three funnels]]
|Ship caption=An early photograph of ''Invincible'', before she lost her torpedo nets.
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|Name=''Invincible''-class battlecruiser
|Builders=[[Armstrong Whitworth]], [[John Brown & Company]], [[Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company|Fairfield]]
(contracted; show full)break and requisitioned by the British for the war.<ref>Livermore, p. 48</ref> Further planned expansion included ''Inflexible'' and ''Indomitable'', but when the secret negotiations to acquire them were leaked to the press, a major uproar erupted in Chile. The most visible dissension came from a block of officers in the navy, who publicly opposed any possible purchase and instead promoted a "New Navy" which would acquire submarines and airplane
s. They argued that these weapons would cost less and give the country, and its lengthy coastline, better protection from external threats. The ships were not bought for reasons of cost, but neither were the airplanes its supporters had been hoping for.<ref>Somervell, pp. 393–394</ref> Both were sold for [[ship breaking|scrap]] on 1 December 1921.<ref name=r22/>

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(contracted; show full)[[fr:Classe Invincible (croiseur)]]
[[it:Classe Invincible (incrociatore)]]
[[ja:インヴィンシブル級巡洋戦艦]]
[[pl:Krążowniki liniowe typu Invincible]]
[[pt:Classe Invincible]]
[[ru:Линейные крейсера типа «Инвинсибл»]]
[[fi:Invincible-luokka (taisteluristeilijä)]]
[[zh:无敌级战列巡洋舰]]