HMS Hogue (1900)
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 HMS Hogue |
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| Career |  |
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| Name: | HMS Hogue |
| Builder: | Vickers |
| Launched: | August 13, 1900 |
| Fate: | Sunk by U-9 on September 22, 1914 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tons burthen: | 12,000 tons |
| Length: | 472 ft (144 m) |
| Beam: | 69 ft 6 in (21.2 m) |
| Propulsion: | triple expansion engines twin screws |
| Speed: | 21 knots |
| Armament: | 2 × 9.2-inch 12 × 6-inch guns |
For other ships of the same name, see HMS Hogue.
HMS Hogue was a Cressy-class armoured cruiser in the Royal Navy. Hogue was sunk with her sisters HMS Aboukir and HMS Cressy by the German U-boat U-9 on 22 September 1914, while serving as part of the "Live Bait Squadron". Over a thousand lives were lost.
[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.
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