| HMS Orlando (1886) | |
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| Career |  |
| Name: | HMS Orlando |
| Builder: | Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company, Jarrow |
| Laid down: | 23 April 1885 |
| Launched: | 3 August 1886 |
| Fate: | Sold for breaking up 11 July 1905 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 5,600 tons |
| Length: | 300 ft (91 m) p/p |
| 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) Mk V 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 Orlando.
HMS Orlando was the lead ship of the Orlando-class of first-class cruisers built in the yards of Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company, Jarrow and launched on 3 August 1886.
She was commanded by Charles Ramsay Arbuthnot on the Australia Station from 1892 to 1895. In 1899 she was assigned to the China Station.[1] During the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, sailors from HMS Orlando formed part of the force led by Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Seymour attempting to relieve the British Legation in Beijing. A replica of a bell captured from the Taku Forts forms part of a memorial to HMS Orlando in Victoria Park, Portsmouth.
HMS Orlando was sold for scrapping on 11 July 1905 to Ward of Morecambe for £10,000.[1]
Notes[]
References[]
- Bastock, John (1988), Ships on the Australia Station, Child & Associates Publishing Pty Ltd; Frenchs Forest, Australia. ISBN 0-86777-348-0
- 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
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