HMS Bristol (1910)
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| Career |  |
|---|---|
| Class and type: | Town-class light cruiser |
| Name: | HMS Bristol |
| Builder: | John Brown & Company, Clydebank |
| Laid down: | March 23, 1909 |
| Launched: | 23 February 1910 |
| Commissioned: | December 1910 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrapping 9 May 1921 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 4,800 tons |
| Length: | 453 ft (138 m) Overall |
| Beam: | 47 ft (14 m) |
| Draught: | 15.5 ft (4.7 m) |
| Propulsion: | Brown-Curtis turbines Two screws Twelve Yarrow boilers 22,000 hp |
| Speed: | 25 knots (46 km/h) |
| Range: | carried 600 tons (1353 tons maximum) coal 260 tons fuel oil |
| Complement: | 411 |
| Armament: | 2 × 6 inch guns 10 × 4 inch guns 1 × 3 inch guns 4 × 3 pdr guns 4 × machine guns 2 × 18-inch (457 mm) torpedo tubes |
| Armour: | 2 inch, 1¾ inch, ¾ inch deck 6 inch conning tower |
The fifth HMS Bristol was a Town-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy launched on 23 February 1910 at John Brown & Company's Clydebank shipyard.
On the outbreak of World War I in 1914 she was in the West Indies and was the first British ship to see action, engaging the German raider Karlsruhe on 6 August. The Karlsruhe used her superior speed to escape.
By early December 1914 she formed part of the squadron sent to hunt Admiral Maximilian von Spee and to avenge the defeat at Coronel, and was refueling with coal in the harbour of Stanley on the morning of 8 December. Because of this, she was two hours late in joining the chase which was the Battle of the Falkland Islands and consequently did not engage the main enemy force, attacking two collier ships instead.
Bristol was operating in the Mediterranean, and in 1916 she joined the Adriatic Squadron under an Italian admiral and fought in the inconclusive battle of the Otranto Straits against a fleet of Austrian cruisers. She ended the war serving off the coast of South America.
Bristol was sold for scrapping on 9 May 1921 to Ward, of Hayle.
[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.
- Jane's Fighting Ships of World War One (1919), Jane's Publishing Company
- Ships of the Bristol group
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