HMS Wallaroo (1890)

HMS Wallaroo (1890)
HMS Wallaroo (1890)
	HMS Wallaroo c. 1902.
Name:	HMS Persian (1890); HMS Wallaroo (1890–1906, 1920); HMS Wallington (1919–1920)
Builder:	Armstrong Whitworth, Elswick, Tyne and Wear
Launched:	5 February 1890
Fate:	sold in February 1920 for breaking up.
General characteristics
Type:	Pearl-class cruiser
Displacement:	2,575 tons
Length:	278 ft (85 m) oa; 256 ft (78 m) pp
Beam:	41 ft (12 m)
Draught:	15 ft 6 in (4.72 m)
Installed power:	7,500 ihp on forced draught
Propulsion:	2 x 3-cylinder triple-expansion steam engines; 4 x double-ended cylindrical boilers; 2 screws;
Speed:	19 knots
Complement:	217
Armament:	8 x QF 4.7 inch (120 mm) guns; 8 x 3-pounder guns; 4 x machine guns; 2 x 14-inch (356 mm) torpedo tubes
Armour:	Deck: 1 - 2 inch; Gunshields: 2 inch; Conning tower: 3 inch

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

HMS Wallaroo was an Pearl-class cruiser of the Royal Navy, originally named HMS Persian, built by Armstrong Whitworth, Elswick, Tyne and Wear and launched on 5 February 1890.^[2]

Renamed on 2 April 1890, as Wallaroo as part of the Auxiliary Squadron of the Australia Station. She arrived in Sydney with the squadron on 5 September 1891.^[2] She was placed into reserve upon arrival until 9 May 1894. She was sent to serve in China during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900. On 7 January 1904 while sailing off Montague Island, one of her boilers exploded killing four and wounding three. She left the Australia Station on 11 January 1906.^[2]

She was attached to HMS Indus as a training ship for mechanics at Devonport.^[2] She became a guard ship at Chatham in November 1914 and was renamed HMS Wallington in March 1919.^[3] She was sold in 1920, as Wallaroo to G. Sharpe for breaking up.^[2]

Notes[]

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Winfield (2004) p.276
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 Bastock 1988, pp. 103–104.
↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships, 1906–1921, p. 14

References[]

Bastock, John (1988), Ships on the Australia Station, Child & Associates Publishing Pty Ltd; Frenchs Forest, Australia. ISBN 0-86777-348-0
Gardiner, Robert, ed. Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships, 1906-1921. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1985. ISBN 0-87021-907-3.

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[RW-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Winfield (2004) p.276

[Bastock-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 Bastock 1988, pp. 103–104.

[3] Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships, 1906–1921, p. 14

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