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HMS Sapphire (1904)
HMS ''Sapphire'' was a protected cruiser built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. She saw active service in World War I and was sold for scrap in 1921. Design and description Rated as third-class cruisers, the ''Topaze''-class ships had a length between perpendiculars of , a beam of and a draught of . They displaced and their crew consisted of 313 officers and other ranks.Friedman 2012, p. 335 Sapphire was fitted with a pair of four-cylinder vertical triple-expansion steam engines, each driving one shaft, using steam provided by 10 water-tube boilers. The engines were designed to produce a total of which was intended to give a maximum speed of .Chesneau & Kolesnik, p. 84 They carried a maximum of of coal which gave them a range of at and at . The main armament of the ''Topaze'' class consisted of a dozen quick-firing (QF) guns.Friedman 2011, p. 101 One gun each was mounted on the forecastle and the quarterdeck. The remaining ten gu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sister Ship
A sister ship is a ship of the same class or of virtually identical design to another ship. Such vessels share a nearly identical hull and superstructure layout, similar size, and roughly comparable features and equipment. They often share a common naming theme, either being named after the same type of thing or person (places, constellations, heads of state) or with some kind of alliteration. Typically the ship class is named for the first ship of that class. Often, sisters become more differentiated during their service as their equipment (in the case of naval vessels, their armament) are separately altered. For instance, the U.S. warships , , , and are all sister ships, each being an . Perhaps the most famous sister ships were the White Star Line's s, consisting of , and . As with some other liners, the sisters worked as running mates. Other sister ships include the Royal Caribbean International's and . ''Half-sister'' refers to a ship of the same class but with some s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
