HMS Undaunted (1886)

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Name: HMS Undaunted
Builder: Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company, Jarrow
Laid down: April 23, 1885
Launched: November 25, 1886
Fate: Sold for breaking up April 9, 1907
General characteristics
Displacement: 5,600 tons
Length: 300 ft (91 m)
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

HMS Undaunted was a ship of the Orlando-class of first-class cruisers built in the yards of Palmer and launched on August 3, 1886 and sold for scrapping on April 9, 1907 to Harris of Bristol.

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