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{{DISPLAYTITLE:''Invincible''-class battlecruiser}}
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|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 her torpedo nets were removed.
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|Name=''Invincible''-class battlecruiser
(contracted; show full)is achievement ''Indomitable'' was the slowest of Beatty's ships and gradually fell behind the newer and faster battlecruisers. By 10:48 ''Blücher'' had been heavily damaged by fire from all the other battlecruisers and her speed had dropped to {{convert|17|kn|mph km/h|lk=in}} and her steering gear had been jammed; Beatty ordered ''Indomitable'' to attack her. But due to a combination of a mistake by Beatty's flag lieutenant in signaling
, and heavy damage to Beatty's flagship {{HMS|Lion|1910|2}} which had knocked out her radio and caused enough smoke to obscure her signal [[halyard]]s so that Beatty couldn't communicate with his ships caused, the rest of the battlecruisers to turned away from Hipper's main body and engaged ''Blücher''.<ref>Massie, pp. 385–406</ref> ''Indomitable'' fired 134 shells at ''Blücher'' before she capsized and sank at 12:07 PM.<ref name=c25/> After the end of the battle ''Indomitable'' was ordered to tow ''Lion'' back to port as one of her engines had been knocked out, the other was failing and she'd been hulled a number of times beneath the waterline. It took over a day and a h(contracted; show full){{DEFAULTSORT:Invincible class battlecruiser}}
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[[Category:World War I battlecruisers of the United Kingdom| Invincible class battlecruiser]]
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