GIBRALTAR HMS 1894

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GIBRALTAR HMS 1894

Post by aukepalmhof » Thu Feb 11, 2016 7:45 pm

Built as a cruiser under yard No 420 by Robert Napier & Sons, Govan East, Glasgow for the Royal Navy.
02 December 1889 keel laid down.
27 April 1892 launched as HMS GIBRALTAR, one of the Edgar class.
Displacement: 7,700 ton, dim. 118.1 x 18 x 7.3m. (draught).
Powered by two triple expansion steam engines, 12,000 hp, twin shafts, speed 19.5 knots.
Bunker capacity 1,250 ton coal (maximum).
Range by a speed of 10 knots, 10,000 mile.
Armament: 2 – 9.2 inch, 10 – 6 inch QF, 12 – 6 pdr, guns and 4 – 14 inch torpedo tubes.
Crew 544.
01 November 1894 commissioned.

HMS GIBRALTAR, was an Edgar-class cruiser launched in 1892 for service in the Royal Navy. She was built and engineered by Messrs Napier of Glasgow. Of 7,700 loaded displacement, she was coal-fired with four double-ended cylindrical boilers driving two shafts. She could make 20 knots (37 km/h) with forced draught and 18 knots (33 km/h) with natural draught. She was a very good sea boat and an exceptional steamer.
During her early career she served mainly on foreign stations. In late 1899 she had a complete refit at Portsmouth dockyard. In March 1901 she was commissioned by Captain Arthur Limpus, with a complement of 544 officers and men, to take the place as flagship of Rear-Admiral Arthur Moore, who had been appointed Commander-in-Chief on the Cape Station. She arrived in Durban in early September 1901.
Despite her obsolescence, she saw service in the First World War, first with the 10th Cruiser Squadron on Northern Patrol and from 1915 as a depot ship for this group, based in the Shetland Islands. Two of her 6-in QF Mk I guns were dismounted from the cruiser and moved to Swarbacks Head on Vementry, a headland that overlooks the entrance to Swarbacks Minn between the islands of Vementry and Muckle Roe for shore based defence. The two guns still exist on this site and can be visited.
Future First Sea Lord John H. D. Cunningham served aboard her as a midshipman. Captain Ronald Arthur Hopwood, R.N. was in command 1913–1914, leaving at the start of the First World War.
GIBRALTAR was sold in August 1923 to John Cashmore Ltd for breaking up at Newport.

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Gibraltar_(1892)
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Re: GIBRALTAR HMS 1894

Post by john sefton » Sat May 27, 2017 8:40 pm

HMS Gibraltar was an Edgar-class cruiser launched in 1892, made into a depot ship in 1912, and sold 1923.
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