Imperieuse class cruiser
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| Class overview | |
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| Name: | Imperieuse |
| Preceded by: | Nelson class cruiser |
| Succeeded by: | Orlando class cruiser |
| Completed: | Two |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | armoured cruiser |
| Displacement: | 8,400 tons |
| Length: | 315 ft (96 m) |
| Beam: | 62 ft (19 m) |
| Armament: | 4 x 9.2 in (230 mm) guns 6 x 6 in (150 mm) guns 4 x torpedo tubes |
The Imperieuse class cruiser was a class of two armoured cruisers launched between 1883 and 1884 for the Royal Navy. In an 1886 magazine article[1], Sir Edward Reed complained that these ships did not deserve to be called "armoured", as they were not armoured at bow or stern, only along the middle 140 feet (43 m) of each side.
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[edit] Ships
- Imperieuse - launched in 1883, converted to a depot ship in 1905 and renamed Sapphire II, later reverted back to Imperieuse in 1909, and sold in 1913.
- Warspite - launched in 1884, scrapped 1906. One of the Warspite's 9.2" breech-blocks is/was held at the Royal Military College of Science (RMCS) at Shrivenham.
[edit] Building Programme
The following table gives the build details and purchase cost of the members of the Imperieuse class. Standard British practice at that time was for these costs to exclude armament and stores.[2] In the table:
- Machinery meant "propelling machinery".
- Hull included "hydraulic machinery, gun mountings, etc."[3]
| Ship | Builder | Maker of Engines |
Date of | Cost according to | ||||||
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| Laid Down | Launch | Completion | ( BNA 1895)[4] | ( BNA 1903)[5] | Parkes[6] | |||||
| Hull | Machinery | Total excluding armament |
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| Imperieuse | Portsmouth Dockyard | Maudslay | 10 Aug 1881 | 18 Dec 1883 | Jun 1886 | £417,437 | £113,377 | £530,814 | Details of cost incomplete |
£543,758 |
| Warspite | Chatham Dockyard | Penn | 25 Oct 1881 | 29 Jan 1884 | Jun 1888 | £415,546 | £113,786 | £529,332 | £653,072 | £538,797 |
[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.
- Brassey, T.A. (ed) The Naval Annual 1895
- Brassey, T.A. (ed) The Naval Annual 1903
- Chesnau, Roger and Kolesnik, Eugene (Ed.) Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships, 1860-1905. Conway Maritime Press, 1979. ISBN 0-83170-302-4
- Parkes, Oscar British Battleships, first published Seeley Service & Co, 1957, published United States Naval Institute Press, 1990. ISBN 1-55750-075-4
[edit] Notes
- ^ Sir Edward Reed, "The British Navy", Harper's Monthly Magazine (European edition), February 1886
- ^ Note that the costs quoted in the 1895 edition and the 1903 edition are not the same. There seems to have been a revision of the costs quoted for British warships in The Naval Annual between the 1902 and 1903 editions, and a further revision between the 1905 and 1906 editions. (The 1906 edition costs cannot be quoted for the Imperieuse class because the class is not listed in the 1906 edition.)
- ^ The Naval Annual 1895 , p192-200
- ^ The Naval Annual 1895, p192-200
- ^ The Naval Annual 1903, p236-243
- ^ Parkes, Oscar, British Battleships, p307-313.
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