HMS Lion (1910)
Quick Facts
- Ship Name
- HMS Lion
- Type
- Battlecruiser
- Class
- Lion-class battlecruiser
- Built at
- Devonport Dockyard
- Commissioned
- 1910
- Armament
- 8 × 13.5-inch guns
- Propulsion
- Steam turbines
- Role
- Battlecruiser
- Notable for
- Beatty’s flagship
- Fate
- Scrapped in 1924
- Status
- Decommissioned
HMS Lion was one of the most powerful British battlecruisers of the First World War and served as Admiral Beatty’s flagship.