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Warship Weds May 23

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Here at LSOZI, we are going to take out every Wednesday for a look at the old steampunk navies of the 1866-1938 time period and will profile a different ship each week.

– Christopher Eger

Warship Wednesday,  May 23

Here we have the yacht Mystic. Launched in 1936 and finished 1939 at Covacevich Shipyard in Back Bay Biloxi she is a classic of the Mississippi Gulf Coast. The Covacevich Shipyard was founded in 1896 by J. D. (“Jacky Jack”) Covacevich, an immigrant from Croatia, and was later operated by his three sons, A. W. ( “Tony Jack”) , Oral and Neal.  The shipyard stopped building new vessels in 1982 but continued in the repair business until it was destroyed by Katrina in 2005.

As built she was named the Zoric. She was a 59-foot, 39-ton diesel driven fishing yacht that carried its passengers and owners as a yacht running charters to the Chandelier Islands.  She has a 18.4-foot beam and a shallow water draft of just four feet.

In 1941 the navy and then the Coast Guard acquired her for coastal patrol for U-boats and as an emergency inshore minesweeper (if needed) in the 8th Coast Guard District. Robert Scheina’s USCG Cutters and Craft of WWII list her as a Coast Guard Reserve list the vessel as pennant number 949 from March 1942 until presumably the end of the war. While information on the ship during this time is sketchy, odds are she carried a couple water cooled machine-guns, a few depth charges, and a 4-6 man crew while in the corsair navy.

By the late 1940s she was used by the Louisiana State Wildlife and Fisheries Commission until at least 1953. The fleet of conservation boats numbered just five vessels to patrol hundreds of miles of coastline, and Zoric was the largest. While a mullet marshal boat she was “manned by a licensed boat captain and a cook, the latter also acting as a deckhand. Each of these, of course, is a fully accredited law enforcement officer.”

By 1991 the Zoric, now dubbed the Mystic, was in disrepair in Ocean Springs Mississippi in the old World War Two-era USAAF Crash Boat harbor. She was bought by maritime conservationist Matthew Hinton in 2009 and after a three year restoration at the Gautier, Mississippi Pitalo Shipyard she is again on the water close to what her 1939 appearance was.

The current owner wants to  do eco-tours, sunset cruises, family trips out to the barrier islands and offer kayak trips on the 76-year old beauty.

Old Warrior Sailing Away

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The Mohawk is inching towards her final resting place. The battered old coast guard cutter that LSOZI covered as a Warship Wednesday entry is on her last legs.

With no more money to keep the elderly 70+ year old ship around, she is being sunk as a reef in the next few days. The nonprofit museum that owned her donated the Mohawk to Lee County because it couldn’t afford the $400,000 needed to overhaul it. The ship has not been dry-docked since 1984 and is in rough condition below the waterline.

A USCG honor guard from her great niece, the current 270′ WMEC USCGC Mohawk received her colors and are caring for them.
She was involved in 14 attacks against German U-Boats.

• Her crew rescued 293 survivors from the U.S. Army Transport Chatham on

Aug. 27, 1942, and 25 survivors from the British freighter Barberry on Nov. 22, 1942, both of which had been torpedoed by German submarines.

• Acting as a weather ship in the North Atlantic, she was the last vessel to radio Gen. Dwight Eisenhower the weather would be clear enough to launch the invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944.

The local media is giving her some attention but overall her sendoff is sad and lonely.

I guess we are all alone in the end.

Warship Wednesday May 16

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Here at LSOZI, we are going to take out every Wednesday for a look at the old steampunk navies of the 1866-1938 time period and will profile a different ship each week.

– Christopher Eger

Warship Wednesday,  May 16

Here we have the SMS Seydlitz

She was a 25,000-metric ton battlecruiser of the Kaiserliche Marine, built in Hamburg. She was ordered in 1910 and commissioned in May 1913, the fourth battlecruiser built for the High Seas Fleet of Kaiser Willy II.

(Deviant Art)

Commissioned just 16 months before the start of WWI, Seydlitz was a slugger during the War but got as good as she gave. Seydlitz participated in many of the large fleet actions during the First World War, including the battles of Dogger Bank and Jutland in the North Sea. The ship suffered severe damage during both of these engagements; during the Battle of Dogger Bank, a 13.5 in (34.3 cm) shell from the British battlecruiser Lion struck Seydlitz’s rearmost turret and nearly caused a magazine explosion that could have destroyed the ship.

SMS Seydiltz after Jutland….

At the Battle of Jutland she was hit 21 times by heavy caliber shells, one of which penetrated the working chamber of the aft superfiring turret. Although the resulting fire destroyed the turret, the safety measures put in place after the battle of Dogger Bank prevented a worse catastrophe. The ship was also hit by a torpedo during the battle, causing her to take in over 5,300 metric tons of water, and her freeboard was reduced to 2.5 m. She had to be lightened significantly to permit her crossing of the Jade Bar. The ship inflicted severe damage on her British opponents as well; early in the battle, salvos from both Seydlitz and Derfflinger destroyed the battlecruiser Queen Mary in a matter of seconds.

Repaired she returned to service only to be interned with the rest of the Kaiser’s fleet after the war then scuttlled to prevent her seizure. She was raised on 2 November 1928, and scrapped by 1930 in Rosyth.

Displacement:     24,988 metric tons normal
28,550 metric tons loaded
Length:     200.6 m (658 ft)
Beam:     28.5 m (94 ft)
Draft:     9.29 m (30.5 ft)
Propulsion:     4 screws, Parsons turbines, 63,000 shp (47 MW)
Speed:     26.5 knots (49.1 km/h)
Endurance:     4,700 nautical miles @ 14 knots (8,700 km @ 26 km/h)
Complement:     1,068
Armament:

10 × 28 cm (11 in) / 50 guns (5 × 2)
12 × 150 mm (5.9 in) guns
12 × 88 mm (3.45 in) guns
Motto:     Always forward

Warship Wednesday, May 9 2012

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Here at LSOZI, we are going to take out every Wednesday for a look at the old steampunk navies of the 1866-1938 time period and will profile a different ship each week. – Christopher Eger

Warship Wednesday,  May 9, 2012

Here we have the Russian Battleship Tsar Nicholas I, about 1900.

Known in Russia as the Imperator Nikolai I (Russian: Император Николай I) was a Russian Imperator Aleksandr II-class pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Baltic Fleet in the late 1880s. Ordered in 1886, she was commissioned in 1891. Over the next 25 years, she sailed in every sea and ocean, fought in at least one war, was captured and finally sunk as a target by her new navy.

She participated in the celebration of the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America in New York City in 1892. She assigned to the Mediterranean Squadron and visited Toulon in October 1893. She sailed for the Pacific Ocean during the First Sino-Japanese War and remained in the Pacific until late 1896 when she returned to the Mediterranean Squadron and supported Russian interests during the Cretan Revolt. She returned to the Baltic in April 1898 and had a lengthy refit, which replaced all of her machinery, before returning to the Mediterranean in 1901.

Returning to the Baltic during the Russo-Japanese War Imperator Nikolai I was refitted in late 1904 to serve as the flagship of the Third Pacific Squadron under Rear Admiral Nikolai Nebogatov. She was slightly damaged during the Battle of Tsushima, receiving one hit from a twelve-inch gun, two from eight-inch guns and two from six-inch guns, and suffered only 5 killed and 35 men wounded.

She was surrendered, along with most of the Third Pacific Squadron, by Admiral Nebogatov the following day. She was taken into the Imperial Japanese Navy under the new name of Iki (壱岐?) and she served as a gunnery training ship until 1910 and then became a first-class coast defense ship and training vessel. She was sunk as a target ship in October 1915.

Displacement:     9,594 long tons (9,748 t)
Length:     346 ft 6 in (105.61 m)
Beam:     66 ft 11 in (20.40 m)
Draft:     24 ft 3 in (7.39 m)
Installed power:     7,842 ihp (5,848 kW)
Propulsion:     2 shaft vertical compound steam engines, 12 cylindrical boilers
Speed:     14 knots (16 mph; 26 km/h)
Range:     2,630 nautical miles (4,870 km) at 10 knots (12 mph; 19 km/h)
Complement:     616
Armament:     1 × 2 – 12-inch (305 mm) guns
4 × 1 – 9-inch (229 mm) guns
8 × 1 – 6-inch (152 mm) guns
10 × 1 – 47-millimeter (1.9 in) Hotchkiss revolving cannon
8 × 1 – 37-millimeter (1.5 in) Hotchkiss revolving cannon
6 × 1 – 15-inch (381 mm) torpedo tubes
Armor:     Compound armor
Belt: 6–14 in (152–356 mm)
Deck: 2.5 in (64 mm)
Turret: 10 in (254 mm)
Conning tower: 6 in (152 mm)
Bulkheads: 6 in (152 mm)

Warship Wednesday May 2

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Here at LSOZI, we are going to take out every Wednesday for a look at the old steampunk navies of the 1866-1938 time period and will profile a different ship each week.

– Christopher Eger

Warship Wednesday,  May 2

Mohawk as new, 1935, USCG photo

Here we have the USCG Cutter Mohawk

Built as the USCG Cutter Mohawk by Pusey & Jones Shipbuilders, Wilmington, Delaware for $499,800 in 1933, she was commissioned into US service 19 January 1935. For several yeas she operated from Cape May, New Jersey, and later Boston Mass.

Coast Guard Cutter Mohawk. Pier B Naval Station. Key West. 1940. Monroe County Library.

During WWII she served with the Greenland Patrol during the so-called Weather War. She sent the final weather update from the Arctic that Eisenhower used to launch D-Day in 1944. A sub-buster, the tiny 165-foot gunboat launched a total of 14 attacks against submarine contacts between 27 August 1942 and 8 April 1945.

Model of Mohawk, note the tubbyness of the design. Must have been fun rolling around the North Atlantic in her with 125 hardlegs on a 165-foot boat.

One of her crewman, Chief Gunner’s Mate Sieg, invented a breakthrough bullpupped 30.06 rifle that, while revolutionary, came too late for the war.

Mohawk was decommissioned 8 January 1946, and sold 1 November 1948 to the Delaware Bay and River Pilots’ Association, who operated the craft until the 1970s. Abandoned, she sat rusting at the dock until 2001 where she was saved through an effort that brought her to Key West Florida where she was operated as a memorial museum until the Spring of 2012.

The old Mohawk is gonna be sunk as a reef.

You can say the Country got their $499,800 out of her…

General characteristics
Type:     Patrol Gunboat
Displacement:     1,005 tons
Length:     165 feet
Beam:     36 feet
Draft:     12 foot 3 inches
Ice class:     ice breaking capabilities up to 2 feet
Installed power:     1,500 shp
Propulsion:     1× Westinghouse double-reduction geared turbine, 2× foster-wheeler 310 psi 200 deg superheat boilers
Speed:     13.5 kt
Range:     (max speed=1,350 miles)(economic speed=5,079 miles)
Crew:     124 enlisted 10 officers
Sensors and
processing systems:     Radar SF (1945) Sonar QCJ-3 (1945)
Armament:     3× 3″ 50 cal deck guns. 2× “mouse trap” mortars. 2× depth charge racks. 10× “k” gun depth charge projectors

Warship Wednesday April 25

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– Christopher Eger

Warship Wednesday,  April 25

Here we have the HMS Furious on flight operations in 1919.

Three Sopwith Camels are lined up on the deck of the HMS Furious. The hatch in the foreground leads to a hanger deck that held eight planes.

Using a wheeled trolley to launch these little canvas birds, …..

……they were caught by hand upon landing by officers who ran after the airplanes to keep them going over the sides.

Originally designed as a Courageous class Battle-cruiser carrying 18-inch guns, she was commissioned     26 June 1917 at the height of World War One. She was converted to one of the Royal Navy’s first aircraft carriers. During World War Two, Furious was a key player in the Norwegian campaign and took Spitfires to Malta. She later helped with the attacks on the battleship Tirpitz.

sailor aboard HMS FURIOUS chalks a message on a bomb slung beneath an aircraft due

In her career she carried in turns, Fairey Flycatchers, Blackburn Blackburns, Avro Bisons, Blackburn Darts, Hawker Nimrods, Hawker Ospreys, Blackburn Ripons, Blackburn Baffin, Hawker Hurricanes, Fairey Swordfish, Fairey IIIF, Fairey Seal, Blackburn Shark, Supermarine Spitfires, Fairey Albacore torpedo bombers and reconnaissance aircraft, Blackburn Skua, Blackburn Roc, Fairey Barracuda, Grumman Hellcats and Gloster Sea Gladiator fighters.

HMS Furious (That’s a lot of wood)

Specifications:
Class and type:     Courageous-class aircraft carrier
Displacement:     22,500 long tons (22,900 t)
26,500 long tons (26,900 t) (deep load)
Length:     735 ft 2.25 in (224.1 m) (p/p)
786 ft 9 in (239.8 m) (o/a)
Beam:     88 ft (26.8 m)
Draught:     27 ft 3 in (8.3 m)
Installed power:     90,000 shp (67,000 kW)
Propulsion:     4 shafts, 4 Brown-Curtis geared steam turbines
18 Yarrow boilers
Speed:     30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Range:     4,300 nmi (8,000 km; 4,900 mi) at 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph)
Complement:     738 + 468 air group (1932)
Armament:

10 × 1 – BL 5.5-inch Mk I guns
6 × 1 – QF 4-inch Mark V AA guns
Armour:     Belt: 2–3 in (51–76 mm)
Decks: .75–1 in (19–25 mm)
Bulkhead: 2–3 in (51–76 mm)
Torpedo bulkheads: 1–1.5 in (25–38 mm)
Aircraft carried:     36 (usually less)

She was one of the oldest aircraft carriers in the world in 1945, at over 30 years old. While most ships of her type were brand new and carried 3-4 times her airwing, Furious was obsolete.  The ship was paid off in April 1945 and used to evaluate the effects of aircraft explosives on the ship’s structure. Furious was sold in 1948 for scrap, and had been completely broken up at Troon by 1954.

Warship Wednesday April 11

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– Christopher Eger

Warship Wednesday,  April 11

Here we have the first-rate cruisers USS New York ACR-2 (left) and USS Brooklyn ACR- 3 (right) steaming in gleaming white and buff paint schemes past a fishing schooner about 1898. Note the two sea anchors on the port side of the Brooklyn. Brooklyn was just a tad larger and carried a few more large 8-inch guns than the New York, but both were flagships for most of their long and varied naval career.

These two ships were state of the art for the Spanish American War US Navy. They look very similar, with their tall triple funnels and twins masts but they are slightly different

New York

The New York about 1898

Commissioned: 1 August 1893
Displacement:     8,150 long tons (8,280 t)
Length:     384 ft (117 m)
Beam:     64.9 ft (19.8 m)
Draft:     23.3 ft (7.1 m)
Speed:     21 kn (24 mph; 39 km/h)
Armament:  6 × 8 in (200 mm)/35 cal guns (2×2, 2×1)
12 × 4 in (100 mm)/40 cal guns
8 × 6-pounder (57 mm (2.2 in)) guns
4 × 1-pounder (37 mm (1.5 in)) guns
3 × 14 in (360 mm) torpedo tubes

During the Spanish American War she  bombarded the defenses at Matanzas then at El Morro Castle at San Juan. She was the flagship of Admiral William T. Sampson’s squadron, as the American commander planned the campaign against Santiago. The Battle of Santiago de Cuba on 3 July resulted in complete destruction of the Spanish
fleet. During WWI, as a 24-year old veteran she escorted convoys and trained gunners.  She remained on active duty until decommission on 29 April 1933, completing almost 40 years of service as a warship which was very uncommon in the US Navy. She was stricken in 1938 and sunk in December 1941 to prevent her capture by advancing Japanese troops in the Philippines.

side scan sonar image of USS New York on sea floor in Manila Bay, Philippines as she appears today. Other than the USS Olympia preserved in Philidelphia, she is the best remaining example of a pre-dreadnought era armored cruiser.

Brooklyn
Commissioned:     1 December 1896
Displacement:     9,215 long tons (9,363 t)
Length:     402.6 ft (122.7 m)
Beam:     64.7 ft (19.7 m)
Draft:     28 ft (8.5 m)
Speed:     20 kn (23 mph; 37 km/h)
Complement:     561 officers and men
Armament:     8 × 8 in (200 mm)/35 cal guns
12 × 5 in (130 mm)/40 cal guns
5 × 18 in (460 mm) torpedo tubes

Brooklyn as she appeared in 1898, note her 8-inch guns swung out and her crew on the bow

The mighty Brooklyn was flagship of the Flying Squadron under Commodore W. S. Schley during the Spanish-American War. The Flying Squadron arrived at Cienfuegos, Cuba on 21 May 1898 and established the blockade of that port. On 26 May, the Squadron arrived at Santiago de Cuba, where the Spanish Fleet was being held behind the protection of the forts. Brooklyn was a key vessel in the Battle of Santiago de Cuba on 3 July, in which the Spanish Fleet was destroyed. Although she was struck 20 times by whole shot, Brooklyn suffered only one man wounded (Fireman J. Bevins) and one man killed (Chief Yeoman George H. Ellis). Her postwar service was uneventful and she was retired in 1920 while serving as flagship of the Asiatic Fleet. She was scrapped in 1922.

dismantling the USS Brooklyn in 1922. Its always sad when they break out the torches

Warship Wednesday April 4, 2012

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– Christopher Eger

Warship Wednesday, April 4th

Here we have the three-masted auxiliary-engined sailing ship SMS Seeadler

with her sails reefed

The Seeadler, (Sea Eagle in German) was the most famous German auxiliary cruiser (Hilfskreuzer) in World War I. The former British sailing ship Pass of Balmaha was captured in July 1915 by U 36  at the age of 39 years of age.

As of 1916, German warships had been blockaded by the Allies in the North Sea, and any commerce raiders that succeeded in breaking out lacked foreign or colonial bases for re-supply of coal. This gave rise to the idea of equipping a sailing ship instead, since it would not require coaling.

The Seeadler was equipped with an auxiliary engine, hidden lounges, accommodation for additional crew and prisoners, two hidden 105 mm cannons that could emerge from the deck, two hidden heavy machine guns, and rifles for boarding parties. These weapons were rarely fired, and many of the 16 ships encountered by the Seeadler were sunk with only one single accidental casualty on either side during the entire journey.

On 21 December 1916, she sailed under the command of Kapitänleutnant Felix von Luckner. The ship was disguised as a Norwegian wood carrier and succeeded in crossing the British blockading line despite being boarded for an inspection. The crew had been handpicked partly for their ability to speak Norwegian. Over the next 225 days, she captured 15 ships in the Atlantic and Pacific and led the British and US Navies on a merry chase.

Kapitänleutnant Felix von Luckner and his gang of pimps under the hot Pacific sun, in tropical whites.

Her journey ended wrecked on a reef at the island of Mopelia 450 km from Tahiti in the Society Islands, part of French Polynesia. Luckner and some crew sailed for Fiji, where they were captured and imprisoned. A 100-foot long French schooner, the Lutece, of 126 tons was captured by the remaining crew on 5 September 1917 (making it the 16th ship captured by Seeadler). They sailed to Easter Island as Fortuna, arriving on 4 October and running aground there, after which they were interned by the Chilean authorities

Laid down:         R. Duncan & Co. Port Glasgow, 1878
Commissioned:         02.12.1916 (as auxiliary cruiser)
Fate:         beached at Mopelia on 02.08.1917
Displacement: 4500 tons (1571 tons gross register tonnage)
Length:     83.5 m/274-feet
Beam:     11.8 m/39-feet
Draught:     5.5 m/18-feet
Propulsion:     1 shaft auxiliary diesel engine, 900 hp
Sail plan:     3 masts, full rig, 2600 m2 sail area
Speed:     9 knots
Complement: 64 including guncrew and marines
Armament:     2 – 105mm guns

Warship Wednesday March 28

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– Christopher Eger

Warship Wednesday, March 28

Here we have the 117-year old Harbor Cutter/Tug Spanky Pane on her way to be scrapped in November 2011 in Homer Alaska. (photo by Homer Harbor Master, to be published in Warship International)

Built in 1894 by Bells Steam Engine Works, Buffalo, NY
Commissioned as the US Revenue Cutter Calumet 18 October 1894
Transferred to the Navy during the Spanish American War
Returned to the Revenue Cutter Service, which in 1916 became the US Coast Guard.
Transferred again to the Navy 6 April 1917
Returned to the Treasury Department 28 August 1919
Renamed USCGC Tioga in 1934
Transferred to the Navy for a third time during World War II
Designated WYT-74
Decommissioned 14 October 1946
Sold 22 March 1947 to the New Haven Towing Co. of New York, NY and renamed John F. Drews
Sold in 1950 to the Whaling City Dredge and Dock Corp. of Groton, CT
Caught fire in 1950 off New Haven, CT in Long Island Sound while being towed to Groton, CT. Her wooden cabins and superstructure burned off. Rebuilt and converted to diesel
Sold in 1958 to C.A. Pitts General Contractor, Ltd. of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Sold in 1962 to the Merritt-Chapman and Scott Corp. of Cleveland, OH
Sold in 1967 to the Dunbar and Sullivan Dredging Co. of Detroit, MI and renamed William J. Dugan
Renamed Spanky Paine
She was  derelict in Homer Boat Harbor, Homer, AK for almost 20 years before being sent to scrap

After 117 years service in three centuries

Specifications:

Displacement 190 t.
Length 94′ 6″
Beam 20′ 6″
Draft 9′ 6″
Speed 13 kts.
Complement 14
Propulsion: One Babcock and Wilcox watertube boiler, one Compound reciprocating steam engine (converted to diesel engine in 1950), one shaft.

Armament- Carried a small gun during Spanish American War (probably a 6-pounder), and during WWI, the Rum Wars, and WWII most likely machine guns and small arms.

USRSC Calumet in 1914, note the USRCS flag, the volant eagle on her deckhouse, ornate scrollwork on her bow. This photo was taken almost 100-years before the one you see above. (USCG photo)

Warship Wednesday March 21

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– Christopher Eger

Warship Wednesday, March 21

Here we have the USS Indiana

The USS Indiana, BB-1 at dock

USS Indiana (Battleship No. 1) was the lead ship of her class and the first battleship in the United States Navy comparable to foreign battleships of the time.[6] Authorized in 1890 and commissioned five years later, she was a small battleship, though with heavy armor and ordnance. The ship also pioneered the use of an intermediate battery. She was designed for coastal defense and as a result her decks were not safe from high waves on the open ocean.

Indiana served in the Spanish–American War (1898) as part of the North Atlantic Squadron. She took part in both the blockade of Santiago de Cuba and the battle of Santiago de Cuba, which occurred when the Spanish fleet attempted to break through the blockade. Although unable to join the chase of the escaping Spanish cruisers, she was partly responsible for the destruction of the Spanish destroyers Pluton and Furor. After the war she quickly became obsolete—despite several modernizations—and spent most of her time in commission as a training ship or in the reserve fleet, with her last commission during World War I as a training ship for gun crews. She was decommissioned for the third and final time in January 1919 and was shortly after reclassified Coast Battleship Number 1 so that the name Indiana could be reused. She was sunk in shallow water as a target in aerial bombing tests in 1920 and her hulk was sold for scrap in 1924.

Displacement:     10,288 tons standard
Length:     350 ft 11 in (106.96 m)
Beam:     69 ft 3 in (21.11 m)
Draft:     27 ft (8.2 m)
Propulsion:

Two vertical inverted triple expansion reciprocating steam engines[2]
2 shafts
4 double ended Scotch boilers later replaced by 8 Babcock & Wilcox boilers
9,000 ihp (6.7 MW) (design)
9,738 ihp (7.262 MW) (trials)

Speed:

15 kn (28 km/h; 17 mph) (design)
15.6 kn (28.9 km/h; 18.0 mph) (trials)

Range:     4,900 nmi (9,100 km; 5,600 mi)
Complement:     473 officers and men
Armament:

4 × 13″/35 gun (2×2)
8 × 8″/35 gun (4×2)
4 × 6″/40 gun removed 1908
12 × 3″/50 gun added 1910
20 × 6-pounders
6 × 1 pounder guns
4 × Whitehead torpedo tubes

Armor:     Harveyized steel

Belt: 18–8.5 in (460–220 mm)
13″ turrets: 15 in (380 mm)
Hull: 5 in (130 mm)

Conventional nickel-steel

Tower: 10 in (250 mm)
8″ turrets: 6 in (150 mm)
Deck: 3 in (76 mm)

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