HMS Naiad (1890)

HMS Naiad, c1914 (IWM Q039662)
History
United Kingdom
Name:	HMS Naiad
Namesake:	Naiad
Builder:	Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness
Laid down:	3 October 1889[1]
Launched:	29 November 1890
Commissioned:	January 1892
Fate:	Broken up, 1922
General characteristics
Beam:	43 ft 8 in (13.31 m)
Draught:	17 ft 6 in (5.33 m)
Speed:	19.7 knots (22.7 mph; 36.5 km/h)
Complement:	273 to 275
Armament:	2 × 6-inch (152 mm) QF guns 6 × QF 4.7-inch (120 mm) guns[2] 8 × 6-pounder QF guns 1 × 3-pounder QF gun 2 to 4 × 14 in (360 mm) torpedo tubes

HMS Naiad was an Apollo-class protected cruiser of the Royal Navy which served from 1892 to 1919.

History

In 1890, building by the Naval Construction and Armaments Co, later known as Vickers, commenced.

On 26 Jun 1897, she was present at the Naval Review at Spithead in celebration of the Diamond Jubilee.

In 1910, like many other ships of her class, Naiad was converted to a minelayer, as she was obsolete as a Cruiser. She was relegated to harbour duties in 1919 and sold for scrap in 1922.

References

Publications

• 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. 

External links

• HMS Naiad, Index of 19th-century naval vessels
• HMS Naiad at the Dreadnaught project.