HMS Princess Royal (1911)

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Career
Name:	HMS Princess Royal
Builder:	Vickers
Laid down:	2 May 1910
Launched:	24 April 1911
Commissioned:	November 1912
Fate:	Sold for scrap 19 December 1922
General characteristics
Class and type:	Lion class battlecruiser
Displacement:	26,250 LT (26,670 MT) standard 29,680 LT (30,160 MT) maximum
Length:	700 ft (210 m)
Beam:	88 ft 7 in (27.0 m)
Draught:	27 ft 6 in (8.4 m)
Propulsion:	Parsons steam turbines, 4 shafts, 42 boilers, 70,000 hp (52 MW)
Speed:	27.5 kn (50.9 km/h)
Range:	5,610 nmi (10,390 km) at 10 kn (19 km/h)
Complement:	997–1,267
Armament:	8 × 13.5 in (343 mm) guns 16 × 4 in (102 mm) guns 2 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes (submerged)
Armour:	Belt: 9 inches (230 mm) Bulkheads: 4 inches (100 mm) Barbettes: 9 inches (230 mm) Turrets: 9 inches (230 mm) Decks: 2.5 inches (64 mm)

HMS Princess Royal was a Royal Navy battlecruiser of the World War I era.

Princess Royal was the second of the three ships of the Lion class of battlecruisers built for the Navy. She was laid down in May 1910, launched 29 April 1911 and completed in October 1912 at a cost of £2,076,222.

During WWI she was assigned to the 1st Battlecruiser Squadron of the Grand Fleet and on 28 August 1914 fought at the Battle of Heligoland Bight. In November 1914, Princess Royal was sent to assist in the hunt for Admiral Graf Spee's cruiser force, being sent to the Caribbean to guard against the possibility of Graf Spee using the Panama Canal. On 24 January 1915 she took part in the Battle of Dogger Bank.

On 31 May 1916 the Royal fought in the Battle of Jutland. The ship was hit multiple times, with 22 of her crew killed and 81 injured.

Princess Royal was sold for scrap in 1922 and broken up in 1926.

Walter Cowan was her Captain from 1915 to 1917, commanding her at Jutland.

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