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Class overview |
Name | Mersey class |
Operators | |
Preceded by | Calypso-class corvette |
Succeeded by | Marathon class |
Built | 1883–1888 |
In commission | 1887–1942 |
Planned | 4 |
Completed | 4 |
Retired | 4 |
General characteristics |
Type | 2nd class protected cruiser |
Displacement | 4,050 tons |
Length |
- 315 ft (96 m) oa
- 300 ft (91 m) pp
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Beam | 46 ft (14 m) |
Draught | 19 ft 6 in (6 m) |
Installed power |
- 12 cylindrical boilers
- 4,500 ihp
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Propulsion |
- direct-acting compound expansion
- Twin screws
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Speed | 17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph) |
Range | 8,750 miles at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
Complement | 325 |
Armament |
- 2 × 8 in (203 mm) guns
- 10 × 6 in (152 mm) guns
- 3 × QF 6 pounder
- 3 × 3 pounder QF
- 9 × machine guns
- 2 × torpedo tubes
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Armour |
- Deck: 2–4 in (51–102 mm)
- Gunshields: 2 in (51 mm)
- Conning tower: 9 in (229 mm)
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The Mersey-class cruiser was a class of second class protected cruiser of the Royal Navy commissioned in the late 1880s.
Design[]
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Starboard elevation, deck plan and hull section as depicted in Brassey's Naval Annual, 1888
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Notes[]
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External links[]
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- List of cruisers of the Royal Navy
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