For other ships of the same name, see HMS Pandora and HMAS Katoomba.
HMS Katoomba (1889) | |
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![]() HMS Katoomba in Hobart, Tasmania in 1903. | |
Career | ![]() |
Name: |
HMS Pandora(1889–1890) HMS Katoomba (1890–1906) |
Namesake: | Katoomba, New South Wales |
Builder: | Armstrong Whitworth, Elswick, Tyne and Wear |
Launched: | 27 August 1889 |
Fate: | sold on 10 July 1906 for breaking up at Morecambe. |
General characteristics | |
Type: | Pearl-class cruiser |
Displacement: | 2,575 tons |
Length: |
278 ft (85 m) oa 256 ft (78 m) pp[1] |
Beam: | 41 ft (12 m)[1] |
Draught: | 15 ft 6 in (4.72 m) |
Installed power: | 7,500 ihp on forced draught |
Propulsion: |
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Speed: | 19 knots |
Complement: | 217 |
Armament: |
8 x QF 4.7 inch (120 mm) guns |
Armour: |
Deck: 1 - 2 inch Gunshields: 2 inch Conning tower: 3 inch |
HMS Katoomba was an Pearl-class cruiser of the Royal Navy, originally named HMS Pandora, built by Armstrong Whitworth, Elswick, Tyne and Wear and launched on 27 August 1889.[2] Renamed on 2 April 1890, as Katoomba as the flagship of the Auxiliary Squadron of the Australia Station. She arrived in Sydney with the squadron on 5 September 1891. She was damaged in a collision with the tug Yatala in Port Adelaide on 29 December 1891.[3] She left the Australia Station on 16 January 1906. She was sold for £8500 on 10 July 1906 and broken up at Morecambe.[2]

A Pearl-class cruiser from Brassey's Naval Annual, 1897
Notes[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Winfield (2004) p.276
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Bastock 1988, p.101.
- ↑ "The Katoomba-Yatala Collision, The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA), Thursday 31 December 1891, p.6.". http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/24810230?searchTerm=yatala+collision+katoomba. Retrieved 4 October 2010.
References[]
- Bastock, John (1988), Ships on the Australia Station, Child & Associates Publishing Pty Ltd; Frenchs Forest, Australia. ISBN 0-86777-348-0
- Winfield, Rif; Lyon, David (2004). The Sail and Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815–1889. London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-032-6. OCLC 52620555.
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