HMS Orlando (1886)
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| Name: | HMS Orlando |
| Builder: | Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company, Jarrow |
| Laid down: | April 23, 1885 |
| Launched: | August 3, 1886 |
| Fate: | Sold for breaking up July 11, 1905 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 5,600 tons |
| Length: | 300 ft (91 m) p/p |
| 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 |
For other ships of the same name, see HMS Orlando.
HMS Orlando was the lead ship of the Orlando-class of first-class cruisers built in the yards of Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company, Jarrow and launched on August 3, 1886.
She was the flagship of Charles Ramsay Arbuthnot on the Australia Station from 1892 to 1895. During the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, sailors from HMS Orlando formed part of the force led by Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Seymour attempting to relieve the British Legation in Beijing. A replica of a bell captured from the Taku Forts forms part of a memorial to HMS Orlando in Victoria Park, Portsmouth.
HMS Orlando was sold for scrapping on July 11, 1905 to Ward of Morecambe.
[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
[edit] External links
- http://www.memorials.inportsmouth.co.uk/city-centre/orlando.htm
- http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/hms_orlando.htm
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