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Benutzer:Doppelback/Invincible-class battlecruiser
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{{Infobox ship image
|Ship image=[[File: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.
}}
{{Infobox ship class overview
|Name=''Invincible''-class battlecruiser
|Builders=[[Armstrong Whitworth]], [[John Brown & Company]], [[Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company|Fairfield]]
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The ''Invincible''s were significantly larger than their armoured cruiser predecessors of the {{sclass|Minotaur|cruiser (1906)|4}}. They had an [[length overall|overall]] length of {{convert|567|ft|m|abbr=on}}, a [[beam (nautical)|beam]] of {{convert|78.5|ft|m|abbr=on}}, and a [[draft (ship)|draft]] of {{convert|30|ft|m|1|abbr=on}} at deep load. They displaced {{convert|17250|LT|MT}} at load and {{convert|20420|LT|MT}} at deep load, nearly {{convert|3000|LT|MT|-
21}} more than the earlier ships.<ref>Roberts, pp. 43–44</ref>

===Propulsion===
Early in the design process the "Committee on Designs" had thought to power these ships with the traditional reciprocating vertical [[Marine steam engine#Triple or multiple expansion|triple-expansion steam engines]], but were persuaded to adopt [[Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company|Parsons]] [[steam turbine]]s as they required fewer boilers for the same amount of power, were easier to protect from damage as(contracted; show full)[[ja:インヴィンシブル級巡洋戦艦]]
[[pl:Krążowniki liniowe typu Invincible]]
[[pt:Classe Invincible (cruzador de batalha)]]
[[ru:Линейные крейсера типа «Инвинсибл»]]
[[fi:Invincible-luokka (taisteluristeilijä)]]
[[tr:Invincible sınıfı muharebe kruvazörü]]
[[vi:Invincible (lớp tàu chiến-tuần dương)]]
[[zh:无敌级战列巡洋舰]]