![]() ![]() SMS Lützow, a German battlecruiser, was also sunk during the battle. In World War I, the thin armor of British battlecruisers did not serve them well in combat with their better-armored German counterparts and three were lost at the Battle of Jutland in 1916. However, as more and more battlecruisers were built, their opponents became ships of their own type, not slower, weaker vessels. ![]() The original aim of the battlecruiser was to hunt down slower, older armored cruisers and destroy them with heavy gunfire. The first battlecruisers were developed in the United Kingdom in the first decade of the century, as a development of the armored cruiser, at the same time the dreadnought succeeded the pre-dreadnought battleship. They were similar in size and cost to a battleship, and typically carried the same kind of heavy guns, but battlecruisers generally carried less armor and were faster. Sunken battlecruisers are large capital ships built in the first half of the 20th century that were either destroyed in battle, scuttled, or destroyed in a weapon test. * Yellow ( yellow) symbols denote battlecruisers converted into fast battleships and thereafter sunk. ![]() * Green ( green) symbols denote battlecruisers converted into aircraft carriers and thereafter sunk. The location of sunken battlecruisers: * Red ( red) symbols denote sunken battlecruisers. ![]()
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