HMS Shannon (1906)

Career
HMS Shannon as built with short funnels.
Name:	HMS Shannon
Builder:	Chatham Dockyard
Launched:	20 September 1906
Fate:	Sold on 12 December 1922
General characteristics
Class and type:	Minotaur-class armoured cruiser
Displacement:	14,600 long tons (14,800 t)
Length:	490 ft (149.4 m) between perpendiculars 519 ft (158.2 m) overall
Beam:	74.5 ft (22.7 m)
Draught:	26 ft (7.9 m)
Installed power:	27,000 ihp (20,000 kW)
Propulsion:	2 shafts, 24 Yarrow water-tube boilers 2 vertical triple-expansion steam engines
Speed:	23 knots (43 km/h; 26 mph)
Range:	8,150 nmi (15,090 km; 9,380 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement:	802
Armament:	2 × 2 - BL 9.2-inch (234 mm) Mk XI guns 10 × 1 - BL 7.5-inch (191 mm) Mk V guns 16 × 1 - QF 12 pounder 18 cwt guns 5 × submerged 18–in (450 mm) torpedo tubes^{[Note 1]}
Armour:	Belt: 3–6 in (76–152 mm) Deck: 1.5–2 in (38–51 mm) Barbettes: 7 in (178 mm) Gun turrets: 4.5–8 in (114–203 mm) Conning tower: 10 in (254 mm)

For other ships of the same name, see HMS Shannon.

HMS Shannon was a ship of the Minotaur-class of armoured cruiser of the Royal Navy.

Career

She was built at Chatham and launched on 20 September 1906. She served in the First World War with her sisters and fought at Jutland, where she was captained by John S. Dumaresq. Unlike her sister, Defence, she survived the battle, and the war, to be sold for breaking up on 12 December 1922.

Notes

^ British "18 inch" torpedoes were 17.72 inches (45.0 cm) in diameter

References

Brown, David K. (2003). The Grand Fleet: Warship Design and Development 1906–1922 (reprint of the 1999 ed.). London: Caxton Editions. ISBN 1-84067-531-4.
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Chesneau, Roger; Kolesnik, Eugene M., eds (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905. Greenwich: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4.
Gardiner, Robert; Gray, Randal, eds (1984). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships: 1906–1921. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-85177-245-5.
Hampshire, A. Cecil (1961). They Called It Accident. London: William Kimber. OCLC 7973925.
Parkes, Oscar (1990). British Battleships (reprint of the 1957 ed.). Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-075-4.

Minotaur class cruiser

Minotaur · Shannon · Defence

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