The Battlecruiser Squadron was a Royal Navy squadron of battlecruisers that saw service from 1919 to the early part of the Second World War. Its best-known constituent ship was HMS Hood, "The Mighty Hood", which was lost in the Battle of the Denmark Strait on 24 May 1941. Following the loss of HMS Repulse on 10 December 1941, Battlecruiser Squadron was disbanded. Its last surviving member, HMS Renown, survived World War II and was removed from service and scrapped in 1948.
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Walter Bentinck HMS Lion: (flagship) Capt Alfred Chatfield 1st BattlecruiserSquadron: RAdm Osmond Brock, HMS Princess Royal (flagship): Capt Walter Henry...
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press as a "baby killer". His squadron clashed with the British battlecruisersquadron at the Battle of Dogger Bank in January 1915, where the armored...
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