HMS Orlando (1886)
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| Name | HMS Orlando |
| Builder | Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company, Jarrow |
| Laid down | April 23, 1885 |
| Launched | August 3, 1886 |
| Fate | Sold for breaking up July 11, 1905 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement | 5,600 tons |
| Length | 300 ft (91 m) p/p |
| Beam | 56 ft (17 m) |
| Draught | 22.5 ft (6.9 m) |
| Propulsion | list error: <br /> list (help) 3-cylinder triple-extension steam engines two shafts 4 double-ended boilers 5,500 hp 8,500 hp forced-draught |
| Speed | list error: <br /> list (help) 17 knots natural draught 18 knots forced draught |
| Range | 10,000 nautical miles (19,000 km) at 10 knots (19 km/h) |
| Complement | 484 |
| Armament | list error: <br /> list (help) 2 × BL 9.2-inch (233.7 mm) Mk V guns (2 x 1) 10 x BL 6-inch (152.4 mm) guns (10 x 1) 6 × 6 pdr guns (6 × 1) QF 10 × 3 pdr guns (10 × 1) QF 6 × 18 in (457 mm) torpedo tubes: 4 above-water broadside 1 bow and 1 stern submerged |
| Armour | list error: <br /> list (help) 10 in (254 mm) belt 12 in (304.8 mm) conning tower |
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 August 3, 1886.
She was the flagship of Charles Ramsay Arbuthnot on the Australia Station from 1892 to 1895. In 1899 she was assigned to the China Station.[1] 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.
HMS Orlando was sold for scrapping on July 11, 1905 to Ward of Morecambe for £10,000.[1]
Notes
References
- Bastock, John (1988), Ships on the Australia Station, Child & Associates Publishing Pty Ltd; Frenchs Forest, Australia. ISBN 0867773480
- 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.
- Roger Chesneau and Eugene M. Kolesnik, ed., Conway's All The Worlds Fighting Ships, 1860-1905, (Conway Maritime Press, London, 1979), ISBN 0-85177-133-5