🔥 RARE Antique British Navy WWI Trench Art HMS QUEEN MARY Carpenter Box WOW For Sale

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🔥 RARE Antique British Navy WWI Trench Art HMS QUEEN MARY Carpenter Box WOW:
$1350.00

• Nation:Great Britain
• Type:Battlecruiser
• Shipyard:Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company
• Laid Down:March 6, 1911
• Launched:March 20, 1912
• Commissioned:September 4, 1913
• Fate:Sunk at the Battle of Jutland, May 31, 1916

• Displacement:27,200 tons
• Length:703 ft., 6 in.
• Beam:89 ft., 0.5 in.
• Draft:32 ft., 4 in.
• Propulsion:Parsons direct-drive steam turbines, 42 Yarrow boilers, 4 x propellers
• Speed:28 knots
• Range:6,460 miles at 10 knots
• Complement:1,275 men

• 4 × 2: BL 13.5-inch Mk V guns
• 16 × 1: BL 4-inch Mk VII guns
• 2 × 1: 21-inch Mk II submerged torpedo tubes

On October 21, 1904, Admiral John \"Jackie\" Fisher became First Sea Lord at the behest of King Edward VII. Tasked with reducing expenditures and modernizing the Royal Navy, he also began advocating for \"all big gun\" battleships. Moving forward with this initiative, Fisher had the revolutionary HMS Dreadnought built two years later. Featuring ten 12-in. guns,Dreadnoughtinstantly made all existing battleships obsolete.

Fisher next desired to support this class of battleship with a new type of cruiser that sacrificed armor for speed. Dubbed battlecruisers, the first of this new class, HMSInvincible, was laid down in April 1906. It was Fisher\'s vision that battlecruisers would conduct reconnaissance, support the battle fleet, protect commerce, and pursue a defeated enemy. Over the next eight years, several battlecruisers were constructed by both the Royal Navy and the German Kaiserliche Marine.

Ordered as part of the 1910–11 Naval Program along with fourKing George V-class battleships, HMSQueen Marywas to be the sole ship of its class. A follow-on to the earlierLion-class, the new ship featured an altered interior arrangement, a redistribution of its secondary armament, and a longer hull than its predecessors. Armed with eight 13.5 in. guns in four twin turrets, the battlecruiser also carried sixteen 4 in. guns mounted in casemates. The ship\'s armament received direction from an experimental fire-control system designed by Arthur Pollen.

Queen Mary\'s armor scheme varied little from theLions and was thickest amidships. At the waterline, between B and X turrets, the ship was protected by 9\" Krupp cemented armor.This thinned moving towards the bow and stern. An upper belt of reached a thickness of 6\" over the same length. Armor for the turrets consisted of 9\" on the front and sides and varied from 2.5\" to 3.25\" on the roofs. The battlecruiser\'s conning tower was protected by 10\" on the sides and 3\" on the roof. Additionally,Queen Mary\'s armored citadel was closed off by 4\" transverse bulkheads.

Power for the new design came from two paired sets of Parsons direct-drive turbines which turned four propellers. While the outboard propellers were turned by high-pressure turbines, the inner propellers were turned by low-pressure turbines. In a change from other British ships sinceDreadnought, which had positioned the officers\' quarters near their action stations amidships,Queen Marysaw them returned to their traditional location in the stern. As a result, it was it the first British battlecruiser to possess a stern walk.

Laid down on March 6, 1911, at Palmer Shipbuilding and Iron Company in Jarrow, the new battlecruiser was named for King George V\'s wife, Mary of Teck. Work progressed over the next year andQueen Maryslid down the ways on March 20, 1912, with Lady Alexandrina Vane-Tempest serving as the Queen\'s representative. Initial work on the battlecruiser ended in May 1913 and sea trials were conducted through June. ThoughQueen Maryutilized more powerful turbines than earlier battlecruisers, it only barely exceeded its design speed of 28 knots. Returning to the yard for final alterations,Queen Marycame under the command of Captain Reginald Hall. With the completion of the ship, it entered commission on September 4, 1913.

Assigned to Vice Admiral David Beatty\'s1st Battlecruiser Squadron,Queen Marycommenced operations in the North Sea. The following spring saw the battlecruiser make a port call at Brest before a voyage to Russia in June. In August, with Britain\'s entry into World War I,Queen Maryand its consorts prepared for combat. On August 28, 1914, the 1st Battlecruiser Squadron sortied in support of a raid on the German coast by British light cruisers and destroyers.

In the early fighting during the Battle of Heligoland Bight, British forces had difficulty disengaging and the light cruiser HMSArethusawas crippled. Under fire from the light cruisers SMSStrassburgand SMSCöln, it called for aid from Beatty. Steaming to the rescue, his battlecruisers, includingQueen Mary, sankCölnand the light cruiser SMSAriadnebefore covering the British withdrawal.

That December,Queen Marytook part in Beatty\'s attempt to ambush German naval forces as they conducted a raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool, and Whitby. In a confusing series of events, Beatty failed to bring the Germans to battle and they successfully escaped back the Jade Estuary. Withdrawn in December 1915,Queen Maryreceived a new fire control system before entering the yard for a refit the following month. As a result, it was not with Beatty for the Battle of Dogger Bank on January 24. Returning to duty in February,Queen Marycontinued to operate with the 1st Battlecruiser Squadron through 1915 and into 1916. In May, British naval intelligence learned that the German High Seas Fleet had left port.

Steaming in advance of Admiral Sir John Jellicoe\'s Grand Fleet, Beatty\'s battlecruisers, supported by the battleships of the 5th Battle Squadron, collided with Vice Admiral Franz Hipper\'s battlecruisers in the opening phases of the Battle of Jutland. Engaging at 3:48 PM on May 31, the German fire proved accurate from the outset. At 3:50 PM,Queen Maryopened fire on SMSSeydlitzwith its forward turrets.

As Beatty closed the range,Queen Maryscored two hits on its opponent and disabled one ofSeydlitz\'s aft turrets. Around 4:15, HMSLioncame under intense fire from Hipper\'s ships. The smoke from this obscured HMSPrincess Royalforcing SMSDerfflingerto shift its fire toQueen Mary. As this new enemy engaged, the British ship continued to trade hits withSeydlitz.

At 4:26 PM, a shell fromDerfflingerstruckQueen Marydetonating one or both of its forward magazines. The resulting explosion broke the battlecruiser in half near its foremast. A second shell fromDerfflingermay have hit further aft. As the after part of the ship began to roll, it was rocked by a ​large explosion before sinking. OfQueen Mary\'s crew, 1,266 were lost while only twenty were rescued. Though Jutland resulted in a strategic victory for the British, it saw two battlecruisers, HMSIndefatigableandQueen Mary, lost with nearly all hands. An investigation into the losses led to changes in ammunition handling aboard British ships as the report showed that cordite handling practices may have contributed to the loss of the two battlecruisers.

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