BORN HULL 21/06/1890. SON OF HENRY ALBERT & EMMA BROOM, ABOVE. WIFE SARAH JANE (SEAL) & DAUGHTER, CISSIE (1914-1993), LIVED IN PORTSMOUTH. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HDM 31/05/1917 & 31/05/1918.
HMS INVINCIBLE was a battlecruiser of the Royal Navy, the lead ship of her class of three, and the first battlecruiser to be built by any country in the world. The ship was built at Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co., Ltd on Tyneside. She was laid down on 2 April 1906, and launched at 3 p.m. on 13 April 1907 by Lady Allendale. HMS INVINCIBLE, British, INVINCIBLE class Battle Cruiser was lost in the battle of Jutland. HMS Invicible became became the third of Britain´s battleships to explode after a German shell penetrated a turret at 18.33. After the war, the wreckage was located in 1919 by a minesweeper at 57-02-40 N/ 06-07-15.E in 180 feet (55 m) down. INVINCIBLE was blown in half by the midships explosion, and the pieces of the ship rest on a sandy bottom near each other, the stern right-side up and the bow upside-down. The roof of the aft 12 inch turret is missing, the guns still loaded. She is protected as a War Grave, though her propellers have already been removed by looters. Read more at wrecksite: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?10780
