HMS Orlando (1886)

For other ships of the same name, see HMS Orlando.

History

United Kingdom
Name:	HMS Orlando
Builder:	Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company, Jarrow
Laid down:	23 April 1885
Launched:	3 August 1886
Fate:	Sold for breaking up 11 July 1905
General characteristics
Class & type:	Orlando-class armoured cruiser
Displacement:	5,600 tonnes (5,500 long tons)
Length:	300 ft (91 m) p/p
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 × 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 Orlando was the lead ship of the Orlando class of first-class cruisers built in the yards of Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company, Jarrow and launched on 3 August 1886.

Service history

She was commanded by Charles Ramsay Arbuthnot on the Australia Station from 1892 to 1895. In 1899 she was assigned to the China Station,^[1] Captain James Henry Thomas Burke in command. During the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, sailors from HMS Orlando formed part of the force led by Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Seymour attempting to relieve the British Legation in Beijing. A replica of a bell captured from the Taku Forts forms part of a memorial to HMS Orlando in Victoria Park, Portsmouth.

In late March 1902 she left Hong Kong for Singapore, arriving there on 6 April.^[2] After three weeks, she left Penang in late April, homebound,^[3] stopping at Colombo on 5 May,^[4] Aden on 14 May,^[5] Malta on 28 May,^[6] and Gibraltar on 2 June, before arriving at Portsmouth four days later.^[7] Captain Burke died at sea on 12 May 1902, during the journey, and was buried at Aden.^[8] Commander Philip Howard Colomb was in charge fore the remainder of the journey.

HMS Orlando was sold for scrapping on 11 July 1905 to Ward of Morecambe for £10,000.^[1]

Notes

1 2 Bastock, pp.98–99.
↑ "Naval & Military intelligence" The Times (London). Wednesday, 9 April 1902. (36737), p. 10.
↑ "Naval & Military intelligence" The Times (London). Wednesday, 30 April 1902. (36755), p. 9.
↑ "Naval & Military intelligence" The Times (London). Wednesday, 7 May 1902. (36761), p. 10.
↑ "Naval & Military intelligence" The Times (London). Friday, 16 May 1902. (36769), p. 11.
↑ "Naval & Military intelligence" The Times (London). Wednesday, 28 May 1902. (36779), p. 9.
↑ "Naval & Military intelligence" The Times (London). Saturday, 7 June 1902. (36788), p. 9.
↑ "Obituary - Captain James Burke" The Times (London). Saturday, 17 May 1902. (36770), p. 8.

References

Bastock, John (1988), Ships on the Australia Station, Child & Associates Publishing Pty Ltd; Frenchs Forest, Australia. ISBN 0-86777-348-0
Chesneau, Roger & Kolesnik, Eugene M., eds. (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. Greenwich, UK: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4.
Friedman, Norman (2012). British Cruisers of the Victorian Era. Barnsley, South Yorkshire, UK: Seaforth. ISBN 978-1-59114-068-9.
Silverstone, Paul H. (1984). Directory of the World's Capital Ships. New York: Hippocrene Books. ISBN 0-88254-979-0.

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Orlando-class cruiser

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Preceded by: Imperieuse class Followed by: Blake class List of cruisers of the Royal Navy

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