HMS Katoomba (1889)

For other ships of the same name, see HMS Pandora and HMAS Katoomba.

HMS Katoomba in Hobart, Tasmania in 1903.
Career
Name: HMS Pandora(1889–1890)
HMS Katoomba (1890–1906)
Namesake: Katoomba, New South Wales
Builder: Armstrong Whitworth, Elswick, Tyne and Wear
Launched: 27 August 1889
Fate: sold on 10 July 1906 for breaking up at Morecambe.
General characteristics
Type: Pearl-class cruiser
Displacement: 2,575 tons
Length: 278 ft (85 m) oa
256 ft (78 m) pp[1]
Beam: 41 ft (12 m)[1]
Draught: 15 ft 6 in (4.72 m)
Installed power: 7,500 ihp on forced draught
Propulsion:
  • 2 x 3-cylinder triple-expansion steam engines
  • 4 x double-ended cylindrical boilers
  • 2 screws[1]
Speed: 19 knots
Complement: 217
Armament:

8 x QF 4.7 inch (120 mm) guns
8 x 3-pounder guns
4 x machine guns

2 x 14-inch (356 mm) torpedo tubes
Armour: Deck: 1 - 2 inch
Gunshields: 2 inch
Conning tower: 3 inch

HMS Katoomba was an Pearl-class cruiser of the Royal Navy, originally named HMS Pandora, built by Armstrong Whitworth, Elswick, Tyne and Wear and launched on 27 August 1889.[2] Renamed on 2 April 1890, as Katoomba as the flagship of the Auxiliary Squadron of the Australia Station. She arrived in Sydney with the squadron on 5 September 1891. She was damaged in a collision with the tug Yatala in Port Adelaide on 29 December 1891.[3] She left the Australia Station on 16 January 1906. She was sold for £8500 on 10 July 1906 and broken up at Morecambe.[2]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Winfield (2004) p.276
  2. ^ a b Bastock 1988, p.101.
  3. ^ "The Katoomba-Yatala Collision, The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA), Thursday 31 December 1891, p.6.". http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/24810230?searchTerm=yatala+collision+katoomba. Retrieved 4 October 2010. 

References

 Royal Navy

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 Royal New Zealand Navy