HMS Kent (1901)
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 HMS Kent |
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| Career |  |
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| Name: | HMS Kent |
| Builder: | Portsmouth Dockyard |
| Launched: | March 6, 1901 |
| Fate: | Sold June 1920 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tons burthen: | 9,800 tons |
| Length: | 463.5 ft (141.3 m) |
| Beam: | 66 ft (20 m) |
| Draught: | 25 ft (7.6 m) |
| Propulsion: | 4-cylinder triple-extension steam engines two shafts 31 Belleville boilers 22,000hp |
| Speed: | apprx 23 knots |
| Complement: | 678 |
| Armament: | 14 x 6in guns 12 x 12 pounder guns |
| Armour: | 4in (102mm) belt 5in (127mm) barbette 5in (127mm) turret |
HMS Kent was a Monmouth-class armoured cruiser of 9,800 tons displacement, of the British Royal Navy. Launched on 6 March 1901, with her heaviest guns being 6 inch quick-firers. She served on the China Station between 1906 and 1913.
On the outbreak of the First World War she was re-commissioned and sent to the Falkland Islands where she participated in the Battle of the Falkland Islands and sank SMS Nurnberg. During the action her flags were damaged - new ones were presented to her on December 8th 1915 by the County Society of Kent. It is said that in an attempt to catch the Nurnberg to avenge the loss of their sister ship Monmouth, the ship's complement threw everything that could burn into the boilers to help close the range.
From March 1915 she was again on the China Station. On March 21st 1915 she sunk the German cruiser SMS Dresden off the Juan Fernández Islands in the Pacific.[1]
She returned to the United Kingdom in May 1915, and was redesignated to the Cape Station in 1916. In June 1918 she was transferred to English Channel convoy escort duty, but in July 1918 returned to the China Station. She was then sent to Vladivostok in January 1919 to support American and Japanese forces in action against the Bolshevik Red Army.
She was sold for scrap and broken up in June 1920.
[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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