HMS Gibraltar (1892)
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| Launched: | 1892 |
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| Fate: | Sold |
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| Displacement: | 7,350 tons |
| Length: | 360 ft |
| Beam: | 60 ft |
| Draught: | 24 |
| Propulsion: | 2 shafts, 12,000 hp |
| Speed: | 20 knots |
| Range: | 10,000 nautical miles (19,000 km) at 10 knots (19 km/h) |
| Complement: | 544 |
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HMS Gibraltar, was an Edgar class cruiser launched in 1892 for service in the Royal Navy. She was built and engineered by Messrs Napier of Glasgow. Of 7,700 loaded displacement, she was coal-fired with four double-ended cylindrical boilers driving two shafts. She could make 20 knots with forced drought and 18 knots with natural drought. She was a very good sea boat and an exceptional steamer.
Armament consisted of two 9.2" guns, twelve 6" Quick Fire guns, twelve 6 pounder guns, five 3 pounder Quick Fire guns and four 18" submerged torpedo tubes.
Gibraltar was armored with steel, 3" to 5" on her decks, 6" on her casemates, 3" on her 9.2" gun shields, 2" to 7" on her ammunition hoists and 12" on her conning tower.
A crew of 544 was needed to man the Gibraltar.
During her earlier career she served mainly on foreign stations. Despite her obsolescence she service in World War I, first with the 10th Cruiser Squadron on Northern Patrol and from 1915 as a depot ship for this group, based in the Shetland Islands.
Gibraltar was sold in 1923.
See HMS Gibraltar for other ships of this name.
| Edgar-class cruiser |
| Edgar | Hawke | Endymion | Royal Arthur | Gibraltar |
| Grafton | St George | Theseus | Crescent |
List of cruisers of the Royal Navy |
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