Apollo class cruiser
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 HMS Spartan (1891) |
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| Class overview | |
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| Operators: |  Royal Navy Royal Canadian Navy |
| Succeeded by: | Astraea-class cruiser |
| Built: | 1889–1892 |
| In commission: | 1889–1931 |
| Completed: | 21 |
| Lost: | 5 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 3,600 long tons (3,700 t) |
| Length: | 314 ft (96 m) |
| Beam: | 43 ft 6 in (13.26 m) |
| Draught: | 17 ft 6 in (5.33 m) |
| Speed: | 19.75 knots (22.73 mph; 36.58 km/h) |
| Complement: | 273 to 300 officers and men |
| Armament: |
• 2 × 6 in (150 mm) QF gun • 2 to 4 × 14 in (360 mm) torpedo tubes |
The Apollo class were a class of second-class protected cruisers built for the Royal Navy in the late 19th century that served during the Boer War and World War I.
Latona, Apollo, Intrepid, Iphigenia, Andromache, Naiad and Thetis were converted into minelaying cruisers around 1907.
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[edit] Ships
- HMS Apollo
- HMS Aeolus
- HMS Andromache
- HMS Brilliant
- HMS Indefatigable
- HMS Intrepid - scuttled 1918
- HMS Iphigenia - scuttled as part of Zeebrugge Raid 1918
- HMS Latona
- HMS Melampus
- HMS Naiad
- HMS Pique
- HMS Rainbow - to Royal Canadian Navy as HMCS Rainbow
- HMS Retribution
- HMS Sappho
- HMS Scylla
- HMS Sirius - Scuttled 1918
- HMS Spartan - Scrapped 1931
- HMS Sybille - Wrecked 1901
- HMS Terpsichore
- HMS Thetis - Scuttled with Iphigenia 1918
- HMS Tribune
[edit] See also
[edit] Notes
- ^ "Fifty Years in the Royal Navy" published 1919, page 88
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