Queen Mary 1913

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Name:	QUEEN MARY
Type:	Battle Cruiser
Keel:	06/03/1911
Launched:	20/03/1912
Completed:	30/08/1913
Builder:	Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd
Yard:	Jarrow
Yard Number:	818
Dimensions:	26770 - 31650disp, 675.0 x 88.5 x 31.7(draft)ft
Engines:	4 x Steam turbines, Parsons type, DR Geared, 75000shp
Engines by:	John Brown & Co, Clydebank
Propulsion:	4 x Screws, 28.0knots
Construction:	Steel
Armament:	4 x 2 x 13.5ins, 16 x 1 x 4.0ins, 1 x 6pdr AA, 1 x 3ins AA guns;
	2 x 1 x 21ins torpedoes
History:
30/08/1913	British Royal Navy
31/05/1916	Sank

Comments:	Sole member of the QUEEN MARY Class but similar to LION
	31/05/1916: Sunk at the Battle of Jutland with 1266 crew lost
	She was hit by a combined salvo from DERFFLINGER & SEYDLITZ
	She then disintegrated when both forward magazines exploded