HMS Princess Royal (1911)
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The HMS Princess Royal was a battlecruiser of the Lion class of the Royal Navy from the era of the First World War . Her sister ships were the HMS Lion and the HMS Queen Mary .
During the First World War, the Princess Royal was assigned to the First Battlecruiser Squadron of the Grand Fleet . On August 28, 1914, she took part in the naval battle near Helgoland . After the devastating defeat of the British cruiser squadron under Admiral Cradock at the sea battle of Coronel , in November 1914, against the will of Admiral Jellicoe , the commander in chief of the British Grand Fleet, she was ordered to hunt the East Asia squadron of Graf Spee in the Caribbean for a possible one Count Spee's passage through the Panama Canal, which was newly opened in August 1914 and which could have been covered with three ships at the same time.
On January 24, 1915, she took part in the battle on the Dogger Bank. In association with other battle cruisers, she shot down the last most modern German armored cruiser Blücher, which had remained behind due to its inferior speed, from close range. On May 31, 1916, she fought in the Battle of the Skagerrak . The ship was hit several times. A total of 22 sailors died and 81 were injured.
She and her two sister ships were called "the splendid cats" by the British because of their aesthetics.
It was sold for scrapping in 1922.
literature
- Robert Gardiner (Ed.): Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906-1921 . Conway Maritime Press Ltd, London 1985, ISBN 0-85177-245-5 , pp. 29 .