HMS Immortalité (1887)

HMS Immortalité
Career (United Kingdom)
Name:	HMS Immortalité
Namesake:	The French word for immortality
Builder:	Chatham Dockyard
Laid down:	18 January 1886
Launched:	7 July 1887
Fate:	Sold for breaking up 1 January 1907
General characteristics
Class and type:	Orlando-class armoured cruiser
Displacement:	5,600 tons
Length:	300 ft (91 m)
Beam:	56 ft (17 m)
Draught:	22.5 ft (6.9 m)
Installed power:	5,500 hp (4,100 kW) 8,500 hp (6,300 kW) forced-draught
Propulsion:	3-cylinder triple-extension steam engines two shafts 4 double-ended boilers
Speed:	17 knots (31 km/h) natural draught 18 knots (33 km/h) forced draught
Range:	10,000 nautical miles (19,000 km) at 10 knots (19 km/h)
Complement:	484
Armament:	2 × BL 9.2-inch (233.7 mm) Mk V or VI guns (2 x 1) 10 x BL 6-inch (152.4 mm) guns (10 x 1) 6 × QF 6-pounder (57 mm) guns (6 × 1) 10 × QF 3-pounder (47 mm) Hotchkiss guns (10 × 1) 6 × 18-inch (450-mm) torpedo tubes (4 above water broadside, 1 bow and 1 stern submerged)
Armour:	Belt: 10 in (250 mm) Conning tower: 12 in (300 mm)

Immortalité firing a salute in Nagasaki harbor in Japan in honor of Queen Victoria‍ '​s 81st birthday on 24 May 1897.

HMS Immortalité was a ship of the Orlando class of armored cruisers of the Royal Navy built in the yards of Earle of Hull and launched on 7 July 1887.

Service history

Plan drawing of the Orlando-class armored cruisers from Brassey‍ '​s Naval Annual 1888-1889.

She was commissioned at Chatham 21 May 1901 by Captain Sackville H. Carden as seagoing tender to the Wildfire, flagship at Sheerness.^[1]

She was sold for scrapping on 1 January 1907 to S. Breaking Company of Blackwall.

Notes

References

• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475. 
• Roger Chesneau and Eugene M. Kolesnik, ed., Conway's All The Worlds Fighting Ships, 1860-1905, (Conway Maritime Press, London, 1979), ISBN 0-85177-133-5

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