HMS Narcissus (1886)

Career (United Kingdom)
Name:	HMS Narcissus
Builder:	C & W Earle, Hull
Laid down:	27 April 1885
Launched:	15 December 1886
Fate:	Sold for breaking up September 11, 1906
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)

HMS Narcissus was a ship of the Orlando class of first-class cruisers built in the yards of Earle of Hull and launched on 15 December 1886. Future Admiral Ernest Gaunt served aboard her in 1896 as First Lieutenant.

In 1901 she was rearmed and refitted to serve as instructional tender to the Excellent gunnery school, and in late May 1901 was passed into the Fleet Reserve at Portsmouth.^[1]

She was sold for scrapping on September 11, 1906.

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