HMS Narcissus (1886)

HMS Narcissus (1886)
Career
Name:	HMS Narcissus
Builder:	C & W Earle, Hull
Laid down:	April 27, 1885
Launched:	December 15, 1886
Fate:	Sold for breaking up September 11, 1906
General characteristics
Displacement:	5,600 tons
Length:	300 ft (91 m)
Beam:	56 ft (17 m)
Draught:	22.5 ft (6.9 m)
Propulsion:	3-cylinder triple-extension steam engines two shafts 4 double-ended boilers 5,500 hp 8,500 hp forced-draught
Speed:	17 knots natural draught 18 knots forced draught
Range:	10,000 nautical miles (19,000 km) at 10 knots (19 km/h)
Complement:	484
Armament:	2 × BL 9.2-inch (233.7 mm) guns (2 x 1) 10 x BL 6-inch (152.4 mm) guns (10 x 1) 6 × 6 pdr guns (6 × 1) QF 10 × 3 pdr guns (10 × 1) QF 6 × 18 in (457 mm) torpedo tubes: 4 above-water broadside 1 bow and 1 stern submerged
Armour:	10 in (254 mm) belt 12 in (304.8 mm) conning tower

For other ships of the same name, see HMS Narcissus.

HMS Narcissus was a ship of the Orlando-class of first-class cruisers built in the yards of Earle of Hull and launched on December 15, 1886. Future Admiral Ernest Gaunt served aboard her in 1896 as First Lieutenant.

In 1901 she was rearmed and refitted to serve as instructional tender to the Excellent, gunnery school, and in late May 1901 was passed into the Fleet Reserve at Portsmouth.

She was sold for scrapping on September 11, 1906.

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. OCLC 67375475. 
• Roger Chesneau and Eugene M. Kolesnik, ed., Conway's All The Worlds Fighting Ships, 1860-1905, (Conway Maritime Press, London, 1979), ISBN 0-85177-133-5