HMS Shannon (1906)
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 HMS Shannon |
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| Name: | HMS Shannon |
| Builder: | Chatham dockyard |
| Launched: | September 20, 1906 |
| Fate: | Sold December 12, 1922 |
| General characteristics | |
| Length: | 490 ft (150 m) between perpendiculars 519 ft (158 m) overall |
| Beam: | 74.5 ft (22.7 m) |
| Draught: | 26 ft (7.9 m) |
| Propulsion: | 24 Yarrow boilers 4 Cylinder Triple-expansion engines 2 shafts, 3-bladed propellers 27,000 hp |
| Speed: | 22.9 knots |
| Complement: | 54 officers 849 enlisted 903 total |
| Armament: | 4 × 9.2 in (234 mm) guns (2 × 2) 10 × 7.5 in (191 mm) guns (10 × 1) 16 × 12 pounder guns (16 × 1) 5 × 18 in (457 mm) torpedo tubes, submerged |
For other ships of the same name, see HMS Shannon.
HMS Shannon was a ship of the Minotaur-class of armoured cruiser of the Royal Navy.
[edit] Career
She was built at Chatham and launched on September 20, 1906. She served in the First World War with her sisters and fought at Jutland, where she was captained by J. S. Dumaresq. Unlike her sister, Defence, she survived the battle, and the War, to be sold for breaking up on December 12, 1922.
[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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