Drake class cruiser

Drake class cruiser
HMS Good Hope.jpg
HMS Good Hope
Class overview
Name: Drake
Preceded by: Cressy class
Succeeded by: Monmouth class
Completed: 4
General characteristics
Type: armoured cruiser
Displacement: 14,150 tons
Length: 533.5 ft (162.6 m) overall
Beam: 71.3 ft (21.7 m)
Draught: 26 ft (7.9 m)
Propulsion: 4-cylinder triple-extension steam engines, two shafts, 43 Belleville boilers, 30,000 hp
Speed: 23 knots (24.11 knots, Drake on trials)
Complement: 900
Armament:

2 × BL 9.2-inch (233.7 mm) Mk X guns (2 x 1)
16 x BL 6-inch (152.4 mm) Mk VII guns (16 x 1)
14 × 3 -inch (12 pounder) (14 × 1) QF
3 × 3 pounder QF (3 × 1)

2 × 18 in (450 mm) torpedo tubes, submerged
Armour: 6 in (254 mm) belt
12 in (304.8 mm) conning tower
6 in (254 mm) turret
2½ in (63.5 mm) deck

The Drake-class was a four-ship class of armoured cruisers built around 1900 for the Royal Navy.

Contents

Design

Left elevation and deck plan as depicted in Jane's Fighting Ships 1914

The class were enlarged versions of the Cressy class.

History

The ships served in the First World War with only two surviving it. Good Hope was sunk at the Battle of Coronel in 1914 and Drake was torpedoed in 1917.

Ships of the Class

Building Programme

The following table gives the build details and purchase cost of the members of the Drake class. Standard British practice at that time was for these costs to exclude armament and stores. The compilers of The Naval Annual revised costs quoted for British ships between the 1905 and 1906 editions. The reasons for the differences are unclear.

Ship Builder Engine
Maker
Date of Cost according to
Laid Down Launch Completion (BNA 1905)[1] (BNA 1906)[2]
HMS Drake Pembroke Dockyard Humphrys 24 Apr 1899 5 Mar 1901 13 Jan 1902 £1,050,625 £1,002,977
HMS Good Hope
ex-Africa
Fairfield, Govan Fairfield 11 Sep 1899 21 Feb 1901 8 Nov 1902 £1,023,629 £990,759
HMS King Alfred Vickers, Barrow Vickers 11 Aug 1899 28 Oct 1901 22 Dec 1903 £1,013,772 £978,125
HMS Leviathan J Brown Clydebank J Brown 30 Nov 1899 3 Jul 1901 16 Jun 1903 £1,043,097 £1,012,959

Notes and references

  1. ^ Brassey's Naval Annual 1905, pp. 234–243
  2. ^ Brassey's Naval Annual 1906, pp. 208–215

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