HMS Australia (1886)

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Career
Name:	HMS Australia
Builder:	Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan
Laid down:	April 21, 1885
Launched:	November 25, 1886
Fate:	Sold for breaking up April 4, 1905
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 × 9.2 in (234 mm) guns (2 x 1)BL 10 x 6 in (152 mm) guns (10 x 1) BL 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

HMS Australia, an Orlando-class cruiser of the Royal Navy completed in 1888 and named after the colonies (later to be nation) of Australia. She was scrapped at Troon in 1905.

During her time in service, future Vice Admiral Charles Royds served aboard her.

The only other warships to be named Australia have belonged to the Royal Australian Navy; see HMAS Australia.

[edit] References

• Colledge, J. J. and Warlow, Ben (2006). Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy, Rev. ed., London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. 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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