HMS Phoebe (1890)

For other ships of the same name, see HMS Phoebe.
HMS Phoebe in Hobart, Tasmania in 1903.
Career (United Kingdom)
Name: HMS Phoebe
Builder: HMNB Devonport
Launched: 1 July 1890
Fate: Sold in July 1906 for breaking up.
General characteristics
Class and 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 (5,600 kW) on forced draught
Propulsion:
  • 2 x 3-cylinder triple-expansion steam engines
  • 4 x double-ended cylindrical boilers
  • 2 screws[1]
Speed:19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph)
Complement:217
Armament:8 x QF 4.7 in (120 mm) guns

8 x 3-pounder guns
4 x machine guns

2 x 14 in (360 mm) torpedo tubes
Armour:
  • Deck: 1–2 in (25–51 mm)
  • Gunshields: 2 in (51 mm)
  • Conning tower: 3 in (76 mm)

HMS Phoebe was an Pearl-class cruiser of the Royal Navy, built at the HMNB Devonport and launched on 1 July 1890.[2] She served as part of the Cape and West Africa Station from 1893 until 1897. During this time she participated in the Benin Expedition.[2] After spending two years in reserve she left Plymouth for Australia in early March 1901 to commence service on the Australia Station.[3] She left the Australia Station on 23 December 1905 for England.

Fate

She was paid off and sold in July 1906 to A.Anderson, Copenhagen.[2]

A Pearl-class cruiser from Brassey's Naval Annual, 1897

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Winfield (2004) p.276
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Bastock 1988, p.119.
  3. ↑ "Naval & Military intelligence" The Times (London). Saturday, 9 March 1901. (36398), p. 12.

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