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HMS Queen Mary

Posted by peter cook on 29/5/2025, 6:46 am

Palmers, Jarrow built HMS Queen Mary leaving the Tyne for the final time 30th August 1913. She lasted less that 3 years being sunk at the Battle of Jutland on 31st May 1916. At 4:26 PM, a shell from the German Battlecruiser Derfflinger struck Queen Mary detonating one or both of its forward magazines and she exploded. The resulting explosion broke the battlecruiser in half near its foremast. A second shell from Derfflinger may have hit further aft. As the after part of the ship began to roll, it was rocked by a large explosion before sinking. Of Queen Mary's crew, 1266 were lost while only 20 were rescued.