HMS Ringarooma (1889)

For other ships of the same name, see HMS Psyche.
Layout of a Pearl-class cruiser from Brassey's Naval Annual, 1897
Career (United Kingdom)
Name: HMS Psyche
Builder: J & G Thomson, Glasgow
Launched: 10 December 1889
Renamed: Ringarooma (1890)
Fate: Sold in May 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:4 x double-ended cylindrical boilers
7,500 ihp (5,600 kW) on forced draught
Propulsion:
  • 2 x 3-cylinder triple-expansion steam engines
  • 2 screws[1]
Speed:19 knots (35 km/h)
Complement:217
Armament:8 x QF 4.7 inch (120 mm) guns

8 x 3-pounder guns
4 x machine guns

2 x 14-inch (356 mm) torpedo tubes
Armour:
Deck: 1–2 in (25–51 mm)
Gunshields: 2 in (51 mm)
Conning tower: 3 in (76 mm)
Crewmen aboard Ringarooma, Brisbane, 1894

HMS Ringarooma was a Pearl-class cruiser of the Royal Navy, originally named HMS Psyche, built by J & G Thomson, Glasgow and launched on 10 December 1889.[2] Renamed on 2 April 1890, as Ringarooma as part of the Auxiliary Squadron of the Australia Station. She arrived in Sydney with the squadron on 5 September 1891. She was damaged after running aground on a reef at Makelula Island, New Hebrides on 31 August 1894 and was pulled off by the French cruiser Duchaffault.[2] Spending between 1897 and 1900 in reserve at Sydney, she left the Australia Station on 22 August 1904. She was sold for £8500 in May 1906 to Forth Shipbreaking Company for breaking up.[2]

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Winfield (2004) p.276
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Bastock 1988, pp. 102–103.

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