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Powerful Class Cruisers Class Overview |
Dimensions, machinery and performance |
Length: |
500' |
Engines: |
2 four cylinder vertically inverted triple expansion |
Beam: |
71' |
Boilers: |
48 Bellville type (coal fired) |
Draft: |
27' (depth) |
Shafts: |
2 |
Displacement: |
14,200 std. |
SHP: |
25,000 |
Speed: |
22 knots |
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Crew: |
894 |
Range: |
7,000 NM @ 14 knots |
Armament |
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Number Carried
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Type
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Arrangement |
Maximum Range / Ceiling |
2 |
9.2"/40 (234mm) Mk VIII |
Single mounts |
12,846 yards @ 15° (7.2 miles) with a 380 lb. shell |
12 |
6"/40 (152mm) QF |
Single mounts |
10,000 yards @ 15° with a 100 lb. HE shell |
16 |
3"/50 (76mm) 18 CWT QF Mk I |
Single mounts |
9,300 yards @ 20° with a 12.5 lb. HE shell |
12 |
1.85"/40 (47mm) QF |
Single mounts |
7,900 yards @ 45° AA ceiling 3,600' (max effective) |
4 |
18" (450mm) Torpedo tubes |
Submerged |
800 yards @ 26.5 knots 118 lb. wet gun-cotton warhead |
Note: It is unlikely that all these guns were mounted at the same time, the armament on this class was reconfigured during refit. |
Name |
Builder |
Launched |
Commissioned |
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J & G Thompson Ltd. Clydebank, Scotland |
May 27, 1895 |
Mar. 24, 1898 |
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Fate |
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Scrapped in 1932.
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Name |
Builder |
Launched |
Commissioned |
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Naval Construction & Armaments Co. Barrow-in-Furness, England |
July 24, 1895 |
June 8, 1897 |
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Fate |
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Scrapped in 1929.
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Page published Jan. 9, 2007 |