Apollo-class cruiser | |
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Class overview | |
Operators: |
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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.
Ships[]
Twenty-one of the Apollo class of second-class cruisers were built under the 1889 Naval Defence Act, along with eight to a modified design (the Astraea Class). By the last year of World War I, the surviving ships were outdated, and six of this class were converted into blockships to be scuttled in the entrances to enemy-occupied ports in Belgium. The Intrepid, Iphigenia and Thetis were expended on 23 April 1918 in the raid on Zeebrugge; the Brilliant and Sirius were unsuccessfully expended in the similar raid on Ostend. A further attempt to block Ostend took place in May, with the Sappho and the Vindictive (the latter being of the Arrogant Class) as blockships, but the Sappho broke down en route to Ostend and returned to port.
Name | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Completed | Fate | |||
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HMS Andromache | Chatham Dockyard | 29 April 1889 | 14 August 1890 | December 1891 | Broken up in 1920 | |||
HMS Apollo | Chatham Dockyard | 27 May 1889 | 10 February 1891 | April 1892 | Broken up in 1920 | |||
HMS Latona | Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness |
22 August 1889 | 22 May 1890 | April 1891 | Sold in 1920 | |||
HMS Melampus | Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness |
30 August 1889 | 2 August 1890 | December 1891 | Broken up in 1910 | |||
HMS Naiad | Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness |
3 October 1889 | 29 November 1890 | January 1892 | Broken up in 1922 | |||
HMS Sappho | Samuda Brothers, Poplar | 29 October 1889 | 9 May 1891 | February 1893 | Broken up in 1921 | |||
HMS Scylla | Samuda Brothers, Poplar | 29 October 1889 | 17 October 1891 | April 1893 | Broken up in 1914 | |||
HMS Sybille | Robert Stephenson, Hebburn | 11 October 1889 | 27 December 1890 | May 1894 | Wrecked in 1901 | |||
HMS Terpsicore | J & G Thomson, Clydebank | 27 August 1889 | 30 October 1890 | April 1892 | Broken up in 1914 | |||
HMS Thetis | J & G Thomson, Clydebank | 29 October 1889 | 13 December 1890 | April 1892 | Expended as blockship in 1918 | |||
HMS Tribune | J & G Thomson, Clydebank | 11 December 1889 | 24 February 1891 | May 1892 | Broken up in 1911 | |||
HMS Aeolus | Devonport Dockyard | 19 March 1890 | 13 November 1891 | June 1893 | Broken up in 1914 | |||
HMS Brilliant | Sheerness Dockyard | 24 March 1890 | 24 June 1891 | April 1893 | Expended as blockship in 1918 | |||
HMS Indefatigable | London & Glasgow | 6 September 1889 | 12 March 1891 | April 1892 | Broken up in 1913 | |||
HMS Intrepid | London & Glasgow | 6 September 1889 | 20 June 1891 | November 1892 | Expended as blockship in 1918 | |||
HMS Iphigenia | London & Glasgow | 17 March 1890 | 19 November 1891 | May 1893 | Expended as blockship in 1918 | |||
HMS Pique | Palmers, Jarrow | 30 October 1889 | 13 December 1890 | March 1893 | Broken up in 1911 | |||
HMS Rainbow | Palmers, Jarrow | 30 December 1889 | 25 March 1891 | January 1893 | 1910 to Royal Canadian Navy as HMCS Rainbow. Sold in 1920 | |||
HMS Retribution | Palmers, Jarrow | 31 January 1890 | 6 August 1891 | May 1893 | Broken up in 1911 | |||
HMS Sirius | Armstrong Mitchell, Elswick | 7 October 1889 | 27 October 1890 | April 1892 | Expended as blockship in 1918 | |||
HMS Spartan | Armstrong Mitchell, Elswick | 16 December 1889 | 25 February 1891 | July 1892 | Broken up in 1931 | |||
Sources: Conway's 1860–1905, p. 77; Jane's, p. 62 |
See also[]
Notes[]
- ↑ "Fifty Years in the Royal Navy" published 1919, page 88
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