Orlando class cruiser
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| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Orlando |
| Preceded by: | Imperieuse class cruiser |
| Succeeded by: | Blake class cruiser |
| Completed: | Seven |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | first class armoured cruiser |
| 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 |
The Orlando-class was a seven ship class of Royal Navy armoured cruisers completed between 1888 and 1889.
[edit] Building Programme
The following table gives the build details and purchase cost of the members of the Orlando class. Standard British practice at that time was for these costs to exclude armament and stores.[1] In the table:
- Machinery meant "propelling machinery".
- Hull included "hydraulic machinery, gun mountings, etc."[2]
| Ship | Builder | Maker of Engines |
Date of | Cost according to | |||||
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| Laid Down | Launch | Completion | ( BNA 1895)[3] | ( BNA 1903)[4] | |||||
| Hull | Machinery | Total excluding armament |
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| Orlando | Palmers, Jarrow | Palmers | 23 Apr 1885 | 3 Aug 1886 | June 1888 | £206,647 | £60,165 | £266,812 | £303,065 |
| Aurora | Pembroke Dockyard | J&G Thompson | 1 Feb 1886 | 28 Oct 1887 | July 1889 | £220,550 | £64,000 | £284,550 | £326,110 |
| Australia | Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan | C & W Earle | 21 Apr 1885 | 25 Nov 1886 | October 1888 | £195,390 | £63,000 | £258,390 | £299,027 |
| Galatea | Napier, Glasgow | Napier | 21 Apr 1885 | 10 Mar 1887 | March 1889 | £195,390 | £63,000 | £258,390 | £291,803 |
| Immortalite | Chatham Dockyard | C & W Earle | 18 Jan 1886 | 7 Jul 1887 | July 1889 | £221,500 | £57,000 | £278,500 | £332,359 |
| Narcissus | C & W Earle, Hull | C & W Earle | 27 Apr 1885 | 15 Dec 1886 | July 1889 | £195,890 | £61,500 | £257,390 | £300,149 |
| Undaunted | Palmers, Jarrow | Palmers | 23 Apr 1885 | 25 Nov 1886 | July 1889 | £195,890 | £60,165 | £256,055 | £300,863 |
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[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
- 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
[edit] Notes
- ^ 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 Orlando 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
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