Cressy class cruiser
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Class overview | |
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Name: | Cressy |
Preceded by: | Diadem class cruiser |
Succeeded by: | Drake class cruiser |
Completed: | 6 |
General characteristics | |
Type: | armoured cruiser |
Displacement: | 12,000 tons |
Length: | 472 ft (144 m) overall |
Beam: | 69.5 ft (21.2 m) |
Draught: | 26 ft (7.9 m) |
Propulsion: | 4 cylinder triple-expansion steam engines, 30 Belleville boilers, 21,000 hp |
Speed: | 21 knots |
Complement: | 760 |
Armament: | 2 × 9.2-inch (234 mm) (2 x 1) 12 × BL 6-inch (152 mm) Mk 7 (12 x 1) 12 x QF 12 pdr (3 inch) guns (12 x 1) 3 x QF 3 pounder gun(3 x 1) 2 x 18-inch (457 mm) torpedo tubes, submerged |
The Cressy class cruiser was a class of six armoured cruisers launched between December 1899 and May 1901, for the Royal Navy.
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[edit] Service
Until 1908, the ships served in Home waters, the Mediterranean and the Far East. On the outbreak of the First World War Cressy, Aboukir, Hogue and Euryalus formed the Seventh Cruiser Squadron. Due to the obsolescence of the ships and that they were crewed by inexperienced reservists the squadron was known as the "Live Bait Squadron". This proved to be the case when Cressy, Hogue and Aboukir were sunk in a single action on 22 September 1914 by U-9.
[edit] Ships
- HMS Cressy: launched 4 December 1899, torpedoed and sunk 22 September 1914
- HMS Sutlej: launched 18 November 1899, scrapped 9 May 1921
- HMS Aboukir: launched 16 May 1900, torpedoed and sunk 22 September 1914
- HMS Hogue: launched 13 August 1900, torpedoed and sunk 22 September 1914
- HMS Bacchante: launched 21 February 1901, scrapped 1 July 1920
- HMS Euryalus: launched 20 May 1901, scrapped 1 July 1920
[edit] Building Programme
The following table gives the build details and purchase cost of the members of the Cressy class. Standard British practice at that time was for these costs to exclude armament and stores. The compilers of The Naval Annual revised costs quoted for British ships between the 1905 and 1906 editions.
Ship | Builder | Engine Maker |
Date of | Cost according to | |||
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Laid Down | Launch | Completion | (BNA 1904)[1] | (BNA 1906)[2] | |||
HMS Cressy | Fairfield, Govan | Fairfield | 12 Oct 1898 | 14 Dec 1899 | 28 May 1901 | £780,110 | £749,324 |
HMS Sutlej | J Brown Clydebank | Clydebank Company |
15 Aug 1898 | 18 Nov 1899 | 6 May 1902 | £790,706 | £755,690 |
HMS Aboukir | Fairfield, Govan | Fairfield | 9 Nov 1898 | 16 May 1900 | 3 Apr 1902 | £783,883 | £751,118 |
HMS Hogue | Vickers, Barrow | Vickers | 14 Jul 1898 | 13 Aug 1900 | 19 Nov 1902 | £787,507 | £749,809 |
HMS Bacchante | John Brown Clydebank | John Brown | 15 February 1899 | 21 February 1901 | 25 November 1902 | £787,230 | £787,230 |
HMS Euryalus | Vickers, Barrow | Vickers | 18 July 1899 | 20 May 1901 | 5 January 1904 | £817,880 | £782,901 |
[edit] References
- Chesnau, Roger and Kolesnik, Eugene (Ed.) Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships, 1860-1905. Conway Maritime Press, 1979. ISBN 0-83170-302-4
- Brassey, T.A. (ed) The Naval Annual 1904
- Leyland, J. and Brassey, T.A. (ed) The Naval Annual 1906
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