HMAS Psyche

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HMAS Psyche in 1916
HMAS Psyche in 1916
Career (Australia) RAN Ensign
Builder: HM Devonport Dockyard
Laid down: 1897
Launched: 19 July 1898
Acquired: 1 July 1915
Commissioned: 2 May 1899 (RN)
1 July 1915 (RAN)
Decommissioned: March 1918
Honours and
awards:
Nil
Fate: Sold
General characteristics
Displacement: 2135 tons
Length: 95.7 m (314 ft)
Beam: 11.2 m (36 ft 9 in)
Draught: 5.18 m (17 ft)
Speed: 20.5 knots (design speed)
Complement: 230
Armament:

8 x 4-inch guns

8x3-pounderguns
2x14-inchtorpedotubes
Armour: 50 mm (2 in) deck

HMAS Psyche was a Pelorus class cruiser laid down for the Royal Navy as HMS Psyche by HM Devonport Dockyard at Plymouth in 1897, launched on 19 July 1898 and completed in 1900. She was transferred to Australia and commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy on 1 July 1915. HMAS Psyche paid off on 26 March 1918 and was sold on 21 July 1922.

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