Edgar-class cruiser

HMS Gibraltar
Class overview
Name	Edgar
Preceded by	Blake class cruiser
Succeeded by	Powerful class cruiser
Completed	9
General characteristics
Type	first class protected cruiser
Length	387.5 ft (118.1 m)
Beam	60 ft (18 m)
Draught	24 ft (7.3 m)
Propulsion	2 shafts, 12,000hp
Speed	20 knots
Range	10,000 nautical miles (19,000 km) at 10 knots (19 km/h)
Complement	544
Armament	2 x BL 9.2-inch (233.7 mm) Mk VI guns 10 x QF 6 inch guns 12 x 6pdr guns 4 x 14in torpedo tubes

The Edgar-class was a nine-ship class of protected cruiser built around 1891 for the Royal Navy.

Crescent and Royal Arthur were built to a slightly modified design with a raised forecastle and a pair of 6 inch guns replacing one of the 9.2 inch guns, and are sometimes considered a separate class. The Edgar-class are noted for being the first ships fitted with anti torpedo bulges, when four ships of the class had a refit in 1914.

Building Programme

The following table gives the build details and purchase cost of the members of the Edgar class. Standard British practice at that time was for these costs to exclude armament and stores. (There are unexplained discrepancies between the costs quoted in different issues of Brassey's Naval Annual; this is illustrated by the table in the notes.)

Ship	Builder	Maker of Engines	Date of			Cost according to
			Laid Down	Launch	Completion	( BNA 1895)	( BNA 1905)	( BNA 1906)
Edgar	Devonport Dockyard	Elder	3 Jun 1889	24 Nov 1890	2 Mar 1893	£401,083	£428,081	£410,980
Hawke	Chatham Dockyard	Elder	16 Jun 1889	11 Mar 1891	16 May 1893	£365,491	£413,101	£400,702
Endymion	C & W Earle, Hull	Earle	22 Nov 1889	22 Jul 1891	26 May 1894	£350,459	£397,973	£375,250
Royal Arthur ex-Centaur	Portsmouth Dockyard	Maudslay	20 Jan 1890	26 Feb 1891	2 Mar 1893	£402,414	£427,620	£412,033
Gibraltar	Robert Napier & Sons, Govan	Napier	2 Dec 1889	27 Apr 1892	1 Nov 1894	£347,634	£377,741	£373,236
Grafton	Thames Ironworks Blackwall	Humphrys	1 Jan 1890	30 Jan 1892	18 Oct 1894	£351,851	£381,958	£372,890
St George	C & W Earle, Hull	Maudslay	23 Apr 1890	23 Jun 1892	25 Oct 1894	£377,204	£407,540	£388,755
Theseus	Thames Ironworks Blackwall	Maudslay	16 Jul 1890	8 Sep 1892	14 Jan1894	£347,577	£377,913	£370,359
Crescent	Portsmouth Dockyard	Penn	13 Oct 1890	30 Mar 1892	22 Feb 1894	£383,068	£411,108	£392,453

Links

• World War 1

References

• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
• Brassey, Lord (ed) The Naval Annual 1888-89
• Brassey, T.A. (ed) The Naval Annual 1890
• Brassey, T.A. (ed) The Naval Annual 1891
• Brassey, T.A. (ed) The Naval Annual 1892
• Brassey, T.A. (ed) The Naval Annual 1893
• Brassey, T.A. (ed) The Naval Annual 1894
• Brassey, T.A. (ed) The Naval Annual 1895
• Brassey, T.A. (ed) The Naval Annual 1896
• Brassey, T.A. (ed) The Naval Annual 1899
• Brassey, T.A. (ed) The Naval Annual 1902
• Brassey, T.A. (ed) The Naval Annual 1903
• Brassey, T.A. (ed) The Naval Annual 1904
• Brassey, T.A. (ed) The Naval Annual 1905
• Leyland, J. and Brassey, T.A. (ed) The Naval Annual 1906
• Chesnau, Roger and Kolesnik, Eugene (Ed.) Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships, 1860-1905. Conway Maritime Press, 1979. ISBN 0-83170-302-4

Notes

	Cost According to Different Issues of Brassey's Naval Annual
	1888 -89	1890	1891	1892	1893	1894	1895	1896	1897	1898	1899	1900	1901	1902	1903	1904	1905	1906
HMS Edgar	Absent	Not Stated	£373,548 building	£398,340 building	£401,083	£401,083	£401,083	£401,083	£401,083 assumed	£401,083 assumed	£401,083	£401,083 assumed	£401,083 assumed	£401,083	£428,081	£428,081	£428,081	£410,980