HMS Diana (1895)

For other ships of the same name, see HMS Diana.
Diana at anchor during World War I
Career (United Kingdom)
Name: HMS Diana
Namesake: Diana
Builder: Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering, Govan
Laid down: 13 August 1894
Launched: 5 December 1895
Completed: 15 June 1897
Fate: Sold for scrap, 1 July 1920
General characteristics
Class and type:Eclipse-class protected cruiser
Displacement:5,600 long tons (5,690 t)
Length:350 ft (106.7 m)
Beam:53 ft 6 in (16.3 m)
Draught:20 ft 6 in (6.25 m)
Installed power:9,600 ihp (7,200 kW)
8 cylindrical boilers
Propulsion:2 shafts, 2 Inverted triple-expansion steam engines
Speed:18.5 knots (34.3 km/h; 21.3 mph)
Complement:450
Armament:As built:
5 × QF 6-inch (152 mm) guns
6 × QF 4.7-inch (120 mm) guns
6 × 3-pounder QF guns
3 × 18-inch torpedo tubes
After 1905:
11 × six-inch QF guns
9 × 12-pounder QF guns
7 × 3-pounder QF guns
3 × 18-inch torpedo tubes
Armour:Gun shields: 3 in (76 mm)
Engine hatch: 6 in (152 mm)
Decks: 1.5–3 in (38–76 mm)
Conning tower: 6 in (152 mm)

HMS Diana was an Eclipse-class protected cruiser built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1890s.

She was commissioned with the complement of 450 officers and men at Chatham on 15 January 1900 to serve at the Mediterranean Station under the command of Captain Arthur Murray Farquhar.[1] In March 1901 she was one of two cruisers to escort HMS Ophir, commissioned as royal yacht for the world tour of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York (later King George and Queen Mary), from Gibraltar to Malta, and then to Port Said.[2] Captain Edmond Slade was appointed in command in April 1902.[3]

Footnotes

  1. ↑ "Naval & Military intelligence" The Times (London). Friday, 28 December 1900. (36337), p. 5.
  2. ↑ "The Duke of Cornwall´s visit to the colonies" The Times (London). Wednesday, 13 March 1901. (36401), p. 5.
  3. ↑ "Naval & Military intelligence" The Times (London). Monday, 28 April 1902. (36753), p. 8.

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