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
Crew:
894
Range:
7,000 NM @ 14 knots


Armament
Number Carried
Type
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
J & G Thompson Ltd.
Clydebank, Scotland

May 27, 1895
Mar. 24, 1898
Fate
Scrapped in 1932.
Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Naval Construction & Armaments Co.
Barrow-in-Furness, England

July 24, 1895
June 8, 1897
Fate
Scrapped in 1929.


Page published Jan. 9, 2007