HMS Spartiate (1898)

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Career Royal Navy Ensign
Name: HMS Spartiate
Builder: Pembroke Dockyard
Launched: October 27, 1898
Renamed: Fisgard, June 1915
Fate: Sold July 1932
General characteristics
Displacement: 11,000 tons
Length: 435 ft (133 m) (462 ft 6 in (141.0 m) o/a)
Beam: 69 ft (21 m)
Draught: 25 ft 6 in (7.8 m)
Propulsion: 2 shaft triple expansion engines
16.500 - 18,000 hp
Speed: 20 - 20.5 knots
Complement: 760
Armament: 16 x single BL 6-inch Mark VII guns
14 x single QF 12-pounder guns
3 x single QF 3-pounder guns
2 x 18-inch torpedo tubes
Armour: 6 inch casemates
4.5-2 inch decks

HMS Spartiate was a ship of the Diadem-class of protected cruiser in the Royal Navy. She was built at Pembroke Dock and launched on October 27, 1898. She was a stokers' training ship in 1914 and was renamed Fisgard in June 1915. She survived the War and was sold in July 1932. She returned to Pembroke to be broken up.

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