Editing Invincible-class battlecruiser (section)

====Dardanelles Campaign====
{{Main|Naval operations in the Dardanelles Campaign}}
After the Battle of the Falklands ''Invincible'' and ''Inflexible'' were repaired and refitted at [[Gibraltar]]. ''Invincible'' sailed to England and joined the 3rd Battlecruiser Squadron while ''Inflexible'' arrived at the Dardanelles on 24 January 1915 where she replaced ''Indefatigable'' as the flagship of the Mediterranean Fleet. She bombarded Turkish fortifications on 19 February, the start of the [[Battle of Gallipoli]], to little effect, and again on 15 March, with the same results. She was part of the first line of British ships on 18 March as they attempted to suppress the Turkish guns so the minefields could be swept.<ref name=r22/> She was moderately damaged by Turkish gunfire, but was seriously damaged by a mine, probably about {{convert|100|kg|abbr=on}} in size, that blew a large hole in her starboard bow and flooded the forward torpedo flat, drowning 39 men. She had to be beached at the island of [[Bozcaada]] ([[Tenedos]]) to prevent her sinking, as she'd taken in some {{convert|1600|LT}} of water, but she was temporarily repaired with a [[cofferdam]] over the {{convert|30|x|26|ft|m|adj=on}} hole. She sailed to Malta, escorted by the battleship {{HMS|Canopus|1897|2}} and cruiser {{HMS|Talbot|1895|2}} on 6 April. She nearly foundered when her cofferdam worked loose in heavy weather en route and had to be towed stern-first by ''Canopus'' for six hours while the cofferdam was repaired. She was under repair at Malta until early June before she sailed for home.<ref>Burt, pp. 56–57.</ref> She reached the UK on 19 June where she joined the 3rd BCS.<ref name=r22/>

Towards the end of the year, the British battlecruiser force was organised into three [[Squadron (naval)|squadrons]], with the 3rd BCS consisting of the three ''Invincible''-class ships under the command of Rear Admiral [[Horace Hood]] in ''Invincible''. The 1st and 3rd BCS had sortied in response to the German [[bombardment of Yarmouth and Lowestoft]] on 24–25 April 1916, but failed to locate the German ships in heavy weather. During the return home, ''Invincible'' was rammed by the patrol yacht ''Goissa''. ''Goissa''{{'}}s bow was embedded in ''Invincible''{{'}}s side which partially stoved-in. ''Invincible''{{'}}s speed was reduced to {{convert|12|kn}} through flooding and she was forced to haul out of line and proceed independently to [[Rosyth]] for repairs which lasted until 22 May.<ref>Tarrant, pp. 95–96.</ref>