Normal displacement, 25,000 tons. Full load, 28,800. Length (o. a.), 622-3/4 feet. Beam, 89-1/2 feet. Mean draught, 28-1/2, feet. Max. draught, 32-3/4 feet. Length (p. p.), 580 feet Guns: 5 M. G. 10--13.5 inch (M. V.), Dir. Con. (1 landing) 12--6 inch, 50 cal., Dir. Con. Torpedo tubes (21 inch): 2--3 inch (anti-aircraft) 4 submerged (broadside) 4--3 pdr.] As Beatty dashed across the front of the approaching battle fleet he sighted Hood's Third Battle Cruiser Squadron ahead of him and signaled him to take station ahead. Accordingly Hood countermarched and led Beatty's line in the _Invincible_. Evan-Thomas was by this time so far in the rear of the speedier battle cruisers that he was unable to follow with Beatty, and in order to avoid confusion with the oncoming battle fleet he turned left 90 deg. in order to form astern of the Sixth Battle Division, by this move, however, leaving Beatty's cruisers unsupported. Meanwhile the armored cruisers of Arbuthnot were already under fire from Hipper's squadron and suffering severely. At 6.16 the _Defense_, the flagship of the squadron, blew up; the _Warrior_ was badly disabled, and the _Black Prince_ was so crippled as to be sunk during the night action. As Evan-Thomas made his turn, one of his battleships, the _Warspite_, was struck by a shell that jammed her steering gear in such a way as to send her head on toward the Germans. She served to shield the _Warrior_ from destruction, but suffered thirty hits from heavy projectiles before she was brought under control and taken out of action. [Illustration: BATTLE OF JUTLAND, MAY 31, 1916 2nd and 3rd phases]