HISTORY

The HMS Indestructible is a dreadnought battleship laid down in 1908, launched in 1910, and commissioned in 1911 as the leadship of her class of three ships, the HMS Indestructible, the HMS Industrial, and the HMS Crown. Her design inspired the Royal Navy to later design the Orion class battleships, while fixing many of the Indestructible's problems and figuring out the quirks of the new ship.

As a dreadnought type battleship, she would see her first service responding to the raid on Scarborough, even though she would arrive a few days too late to reinforce the British fleet, so she and her crew stuck around to render aid to the wounded.

Her first real battle would happen in 1916 in the Battle of Jutland. Where she would score a few hits on German dreadnoughts before a lucky hit by a German battlecruiser blew her Q turret and disabling the turret for the remainder of the battle, and for the remainder of WW1 as steel was instead reserved for repairs for super dreadnoughts.

Her Q turret would instead be removed and scrapped and in its place would be 2 catapult, one on each side to launch small seaplanes. This would save her from the scrapyards unlike her sisters, HMS Industrial and HMS Crown being sold for scrap in 1929 and 1934 respectively just to save the British from the economic collapse.

Instead, the HMS Indestructible would start her career in WW2 as a convoy escort, carrying many depth charges that would be flown by her seaplane and of course, in a rush, a passive sonar is also fitted in. In May 1941, a call was made for every available ships to chase down and sink the battleship the KMS Bismarck. Her crews were enraged and the HMS Indestructible would detach from her England bound convoy, on a fateful journey.

Few days after her detachment with no escort, she would be an easy picking for U Boat, and to be specific, the U Boat U-72, U-331, and U-83. Under the darkness, 4 torpedos slammed home into her port side. Resulting in the sinking of the battleship within 2 hours and thanks to her exceptional crew, a distress call could be sent. However only 40% of her crew would escape from the sinking ship, and rescued by British ships in the dawn.

CONTROLS

AG1 - AG5 : Main Turret Control
AG6 : Search Lights

Throttle : Forward
Brake : Reverse
Roll : Turn
VTOL : Turret Turn
Trim : Gun Elevation

GALLERY

HMS Indestructible underway

HMS Indestructible during gunnery excercise

We are being reinforced with a dreadnought

HMS Indestructible in gunnery exercise taken by a sailor

RANT

Hello guys, i'm back, after a short hiatus. I'm focusing on other stuff as of late, but i come around crawling back to building ships. I got inspired to rebuild the HMS Indestructible because of the Battlefield 1 cutscene when you got reinforced by a Dreadnought. Which was cool tbh. I also tried a few new innovations when i made this ship, like the flared fuselage for torpedo bulge, fire extinguisher, vents, different turret rotation and gun elevation speed, and other stuff.

I'm currently on holiday but might get super busy on later months so i rushed this build out and yeah. It actually came out much better than i expected. Also at the time my mother got sick so i had to rush back to Jakarta and just threw what stuff i need that was lying there at the time ahaha, but now i had to learn how to cook, like actually cook, and the foods i made is nice i guess, but maybe all those are for another time i guess. I thank you for checking out, downloading, and trying out my newest build, and as always, have a good night, or day, i'll see you later, goodbye.