FAMEPedia:Today's featured article/July 6, 2021

The two Lion-class battlecruisers were built for the Royal Navy before World War I. HMS Lion (1910) served as the flagship of the British Grand Fleet's battlecruisers throughout the war, and HMS Princess Royal (1911) became the flagship of the 1st Battlecruiser Squadron in 1915. The two ships were a significant improvement over their predecessors in terms of speed, armament and armour. They both participated in the Battle of Heligoland Bight in 1914, where Lion sank the German light cruiser SMS Cöln (1909). In the Battle of Dogger Bank in 1915, Lion was badly damaged and HMS Princess Royal (1911) scored several hits, one crippling the German armoured cruiser SMS Blücher, which allowed the enemy vessel to be caught and sunk. At the Battle of Jutland in 1916, Lion suffered a serious cordite fire that could have destroyed the ship, and Princess Royal was moderately damaged. In 1920 they were both put into reserve, and were sold a few years later for scrap.