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List Of Cruiser Classes Of The Royal Navy
This is a list of cruisers of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom from 1877 (when the category was created by amalgamating the two previous categories of frigate and corvette) until the last cruiser was decommissioned more than a century later. There are no longer any cruisers in the Royal Navy. First class cruisers Armoured cruisers were protected by a belt of side armour and an armoured deck. In the Royal Navy this classification was not actually used, the term first class cruiser being used instead for both armoured cruisers and large protected cruisers. Thus, the first class cruisers built between the ''Orlando'' class (1886) and the ''Cressy'' class (1897) were, strictly speaking, protected cruisers as they lacked an armoured belt. The first class cruiser was succeeded by the Battlecruiser in the Royal Navy. * ''Shannon'' first class armoured cruiser, (1875) 5,670 tons, 2×10in, 7×9inch ** '' Shannon'' (1875) – Sold 1899 * ''Nelson'' class first class armoured ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cruiser
A cruiser is a type of warship. Modern cruisers are generally the largest ships in a fleet after aircraft carriers and amphibious assault ships, and can usually perform several roles. The term "cruiser", which has been in use for several hundred years, has changed its meaning over time. During the Age of Sail, the term ''cruising'' referred to certain kinds of missions—independent scouting, commerce protection, or raiding—fulfilled by frigates or sloops-of-war, which functioned as the ''cruising warships'' of a fleet. In the middle of the 19th century, ''cruiser'' came to be a classification of the ships intended for cruising distant waters, for commerce raiding, and for scouting for the battle fleet. Cruisers came in a wide variety of sizes, from the medium-sized protected cruiser to large armored cruisers that were nearly as big (although not as powerful or as well-armored) as a pre-dreadnought battleship. With the advent of the dreadnought battleship before Wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Orlando (1886)
HMS ''Orlando'' was the lead ship of the of first-class cruisers built in the yards of Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company, Jarrow and launched on 3 August 1886. Service history She was commanded by Charles Ramsay Arbuthnot on the Australia Station from 1892 to 1895. In 1899 she was assigned to the China Station,Bastock, pp.98–99. Captain James Henry Thomas Burke in command. During the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, sailors from HMS ''Orlando'' formed part of the force led by Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Seymour attempting to relieve the British Legation in Beijing. A replica of a bell captured from the Taku Forts forms part of a memorial to HMS ''Orlando'' in Victoria Park, Portsmouth. In late March 1902 she left Hong Kong for Singapore, arriving there on 6 April. After three weeks, she left Penang in late April, homebound, stopping at Colombo on 5 May, Aden on 14 May, Malta on 28 May, and Gibraltar on 2 June, before arriving at Portsmouth four days later. Captain Burke die ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Endymion (1891)
HMS ''Endymion'' was a first-class protected cruiser of the . She served in China during the Boxer Rebellion and later in the First World War, and was sold in 1920. Construction ''Endymion'' had a length of long overall and between perpendiculars, with a beam of and a draught of . She displaced .Chesneau and Kolesnik 1979, p. 66. Armament consisted of two 9.2 inch guns, on the ships centreline, backed up by ten six-inch guns, of which four were in casemates on the main deck and the remainder behind open shields. Twelve 6-pounder and four 3-pounder guns provided anti-torpedo-boat defences, while four 18 inch torpedo tubes were fitted. The ''Edgar''s were protected cruisers, with an arched, armoured deck thick at about waterline level. The casemate armour was thick, with thick shields for the 9.2 inch guns and armour on the ship's conning tower.Brown 2003, pp. 132–134. It contained four double-ended cylindrical Fairfields boilers feeding steam at to 2 three ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Hawke (1891)
HMS ''Hawke'', launched in 1891, was the seventh British warship to be named ''Hawke''. She was an protected cruiser. In September 1911 the ''Hawke'' collided with the ocean liner RMS ''Olympic''. The damage smashed the ''Hawke''s bow and damaged the stern of the ''Olympic''. Construction ''Hawke'' was laid down at Chatham Dockyard on 17 June 1889, one of nine ''Edgar''-class cruisers ordered for the Royal Navy under the Naval Defence Act 1889, and launched on 11 March 1891. Sea trials in March 1892 were satisfactory, with her engines reaching the required power, and the ship was completed on 16 May 1893. ''Hawke'' was long overall and between perpendiculars, with a beam of and a draught of . She displaced . Armament consisted of two 9.2 inch guns, on the ships centreline, backed up by ten six-inch guns, of which four were in casemates on the main deck and the remainder behind open shields. Twelve 6-pounder and four 3-pounder guns provided anti-torpedo-boat de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Edgar (1890)
HMS ''Edgar'' was a first class cruiser of the Royal Navy, and lead ship of the . She was built at Devonport and launched on 24 November 1890. She served on the China Station, and in the First World War in the Gallipoli Campaign, along with her sisters , and . Service history ''Edgar'' was commissioned at Devonport on 20 February 1900, to take relief crews for the sloops and and the survey vessel , which were recommissioned at Hong Kong for the China Station. A crew for the river service steamer HMS ''Robin'', built at Hong Kong, was also included. She left Devonport on 3 March, and called at Gibraltar, Malta, Aden, Colombo and Singapore, before she arrived at the station headquarters at Hong Kong later that spring. In April 1902 her boilers were re-tubed due to defects, and after taking part in the Coronation review in August 1902, she was commissioned to relieve ''Endymion'' serving on the China Station. She was damaged in an attack by the Austro-Hungarian submarine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgar-class Cruiser
The ''Edgar'' class was a nine-ship class of protected cruiser built around 1891 for the Royal Navy. Nine ships were completed, all of which participated in the First World War. One, , was lost during the war, with the other eight being scrapped in the 1920s. Design Armament for the majority of the class was two 9.2-inch guns one at each end of the ship on the centreline with ten 6-inch guns. Four of the 6-inch guns were in casemates on the main deck and six protected only by shields. For protection against torpedo boats there were 12 QF 6-pounder Hotchkiss guns and four QF 3-pounder Hotchkiss guns. Armament was completed with four 18-inch torpedo tubes. ''Edgar''-class ships main protection was a thick armoured deck starting at waterline level arching up over the machinery spaces. The gun casemates were thick, with shields for the 9.2 inch guns. The conning tower had armour. Four of the ''Edgar'' class were fitted with anti-torpedo bulge The anti-torpedo bulge (also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Blenheim (1890)
HMS ''Blenheim'' was a first class protected cruiser that served in the Royal Navy from 1890 to 1926. She was built by Thames Ironworks & Shipbuilding Company at Leamouth, London. The ship was named after the Battle of Blenheim. Description She displaced 9,150 tons and her steel hull measured (length) and (beam) with turning 2 propellers giving a top speed of . Her main armament was two BL 9.2 inch Mk VI guns (234 mm) and six QF 6 inch guns (152 mm) on the upper deck, and four QF 6 inch guns in 150 mm compound armoured casemates on the main deck. She also carried sixteen 3-pounders, and four 14 inch torpedo tubes (two submerged and two above water).''Jane's Fighting Ships 1900'', page 91.''Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905'', page 66.Note that Jane's suggests that the 6 inch guns were probably the older 26 calibre BL guns converted to QF. However Conways confirms that the guns were 6 inch QF. Service history Having been launched o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Blake (1889)
HMS ''Blake'', named in honour of Admiral Robert Blake, was the lead ship of her class of protected cruiser that served in the Royal Navy from 1889 to 1922. She was launched on 23 November 1889 at Chatham Dockyard, but not completed until 2 February 1892. Service history After service as the flagship of the North America and West Indies Squadron from 1892 to 1895, ''Blake'' served in the Channel Fleet. In October 1900 she was employed as a temporary transport ship. She arrived at Plymouth on 2 January 1901 with the relieved crew of and invalids and prisoners from the Mediterranean Station. Later the same month she was sent to Australia with Captain Thomas Philip Walker and a crew, to relieve the crew on , flagship of the Australia Station. She returned to Plymouth with the former crew of ''Royal Arthur'' in June 1901, and was paid off at Devonport on 15 July 1901 to be refitted. She was later converted to a destroyer depot ship in 1907, serving through World War I as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blake-class Cruiser
The ''Blake'' class was a two-ship class of first-class protected cruiser built around 1890 for the Royal Navy. Design The ''Blake'' class were designed under the supervision of William White, shortly after he had become Director of Naval Construction. They were planned to combine the roles of trade protection with the ability to operate with the fleet when required. As such, the design requirement combined high speed and long range. Unlike the previous class of first-class cruisers for the Royal Navy, the , the new class were protected cruisers, with protection provided by a full-length armoured deck with no side armour. They were the first class of first-class cruisers built for the Royal Navy.Brown 1997, p. 135. Main gun armament was similar to that of the ''Orlando''s, consisting of two Mark VI breech loading guns mounted in single mounts fore and aft on the ship's centreline, and ten 6 in (152 mm) QF guns, of which six were mounted in single mounts on the ships' to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Aurora (1887)
HMS ''Aurora'' was one of seven armoured cruisers built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1880s. The ship spent a brief time in reserve before she was assigned to the Channel Squadron for two years in 1890. In 1893 ''Aurora'' became a coast guard ship in Ireland for two years before she was placed in reserve again. The ship recommissioned in 1899 for service on the China Station and some of her crew participated in the Battle of Tientsin in 1900 during the Boxer Rebellion. ''Aurora'' returned home two years later and was again reduced to reserve. She was taken out of service in 1905 and sold for scrap on 2 October 1907. Design and description The ''Orlando''-class cruisers were enlarged versions of the with more armour and a more powerful armament. Like their predecessors, they were intended to protect British shipping. ''Aurora'' had a length between perpendiculars of , a beam of and a draught of . Designed to displace , all of the ''Orlando''-class ships proved to be overw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Galatea (1887)
HMS ''Galatea'' was one of seven armoured cruisers built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1880s. She was sold for scrap on 5 April 1905. Design and description ''Galatea'' had a length between perpendiculars of , a beam of and a draught of . Designed to displace , all of the ''Orlando''-class ships proved to be overweight and displaced approximately . The ship was powered by a pair of three-cylinder triple-expansion steam engines, each driving one shaft, which were designed to produce a total of and a maximum speed of using steam provided by four boilers with forced draught. The ship carried a maximum of of coal which was designed to give her a range of at a speed of . The ship's complement was 484 officers and ratings.Chesneau & Kolesnik, p. 65 ''Galatea''s main armament consisted of two breech-loading (BL) Mk V guns, one gun fore and aft of the superstructure on pivot mounts. Her secondary armament was ten BL guns, five on each broadside. Protection against to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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