HMS Minotaur (1906)
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| Name: | HMS Minotaur |
| Builder: | Devonport Dockyard |
| Launched: | 6 June 1906 |
| Fate: | Sold 12 May 1920 |
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| Class and type: | Minotaur-class armoured cruiser |
| Displacement: | 14,600 long tons (14,800 t) |
| Length: | 490 ft (149.4 m) between perpendiculars 519 ft (158.2 m) overall |
| Beam: | 74.5 ft (22.7 m) |
| Draught: | 26 ft (7.9 m) |
| Installed power: | 27,000 ihp (20,000 kW) |
| Propulsion: | 2 shafts, 24 Yarrow water-tube boilers 2 vertical triple-expansion steam engines |
| Speed: | 23 knots (43 km/h; 26 mph) |
| Range: | 8,150 nmi (15,090 km; 9,380 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement: | 802 |
| Armament: |
2 × 2 - BL 9.2-inch (234 mm) Mk XI guns |
| Armour: | Belt: 3–6 in (76–152 mm) Deck: 1.5–2 in (38–51 mm) Barbettes: 7 in (178 mm) Gun turrets: 4.5–8 in (114–203 mm) Conning tower: 10 in (254 mm) |
For other ships of the same name, see HMS Minotaur.
HMS Minotaur was the lead ship of the Minotaur-class of armoured cruiser of the Royal Navy, launched in 1906.
[edit] Career
She served in the First World War with her sisters, taking part in convoy duties from Australia to the Mediterranean. She fought at Jutland as part of the Second Cruiser Squadron. She was the flagship of Rear-Admiral Herbert Heath and captained by A. C. S. Hughes-D'Aeth. Unlike her sister, Defence, she survived the battle, and the War, to be sold for breaking up to Ward of Milford Haven on 12 May 1920.
[edit] Notes
- ^ British "18 inch" torpedoes were 17.72 inches (45.0 cm) in diameter
[edit] References
- Brown, David K. (2003). The Grand Fleet: Warship Design and Development 1906–1922 (reprint of the 1999 ed.). London: Caxton Editions. ISBN 1-84067-531-4.
- Burt, R. A. (1987). "Minotaur: Before the Battlecruiser". Warship (London: Conway Maritime Press) 42: 83–95. ISSN 0142-6222.
- Chesneau, Roger; Kolesnik, Eugene M., eds. (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905. Greenwich: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4.
- Gardiner, Robert; Gray, Randal, eds. (1984). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships: 1906–1921. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-85177-245-5.
- Hampshire, A. Cecil (1961). They Called It Accident. London: William Kimber. OCLC 7973925.
- Parkes, Oscar (1990). British Battleships (reprint of the 1957 ed.). Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-075-4.
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