Minotaur class cruiser (1906)
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 HMS Defence |
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| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Minotaur |
| Operators: |  Royal Navy |
| Preceded by: | Duke of Edinburgh class cruiser |
| Succeeded by: | Invincible class battlecruiser |
| Completed: | Three |
| Lost: | One |
| Retired: | Two |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | armoured cruiser |
| Displacement: | 14,600 tons |
| Length: | 519 ft (158 m) |
| Beam: | 74 ft 6 in (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: | 23 knots |
| Complement: | 760 |
| 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 the Minotaur class of World War II, see Minotaur class cruiser (1943).
The Minotaur-class was a three-ship class of armoured cruiser built around 1906 for the Royal Navy. They served during World War I, with all three being present at the Battle of Jutland, where HMS Defence was sunk. The surviving ships were scrapped postwar.
The Minotaur class was the last of the First class armoured cruisers built for the Royal Navy. The class was replaced by the new Battlecruisers.
[edit] Building Programme
The following table gives the build details and purchase cost of the members of the Minotaur class. Whilst standard British practice at that time was for these costs to exclude armament and stores, for some reason the cost quoted in The Naval Annual for this class includes armament.
| Ship | Builder | Engine Maker |
Date of | Cost according to | ||
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| Laid Down | Launch | Completion | ( BNA 1914)[1] | |||
| Minotaur | Devonport Dockyard | Hawthorn | 2 Jan 1905 | 6 Jun 1906 | 1 Apr 1908 | £1,438,065 * |
| Shannon | Chatham Dockyard | Humphreys | 2 Jan 1905 | 20 Sep 1906 | 10 Mar 1908 | £1,423,410 * |
| Defence | Pembroke Dockyard | Scotts S. & E. Co. | 22 Feb 1905 | 24 Apr 1907 | 9 Feb 1909 | £1,383,744 * |
* = estimated cost, including guns
[edit] References
- 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
- Hythe, Viscount (ed) The Naval Annual 1914
[edit] Notes
- ^ Brassey's Naval Annual 1914, p192-199
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