Powerful class cruiser

Powerful class cruiser

The "Powerful" class were first-class protected cruisers built for the British Royal Navy in the 1890s. There were only two ships in the "Powerful" class, the lead ship "Powerful" and the "Terrible". They were designed for hunting down commerce raiders such as the Russian armoured cruiser "Rurik" and numerous French armoured cruisers of the era.

Both ships were laid down in 1894 and launched in 1895. "Powerful" was completed first in 1897 and "Terrible" the following year.

They were large and expensive ships. According to Brassey's Naval Annual 1906, the building costs for the "Powerful" was £705,335 and for the "Terrible" £708,619. [Standard British practice at that time was for these costs to exclude armament and stores. As with the "Diadems" that followed them Brassey's Naval Annual gave costs for these ships that were on average £34,000 greater in the 1904 edition than in the 1906 and subsequent editions.]

They were also criticised for their apparently small armament. However they had excellent sea keeping and proved valuable as troop transports.

Trials

This trial data comes from "Janes Fighting Ships" 1900.

Careers

Both ships served in the China Station and provided landing parties which fought in the relief of the Siege of Ladysmith in the Second Boer War in South Africa. This event inspired the Field gun competition. Crews from the two ships also took part in suppressing the Boxer Rebellion in China. After 1904 they were laid up as an economy measure. During the First World War, they had most of their armament removed and served as troop transports and later accommodation ships.

Notes

References

*Anthony Preston - World's Worst Warships, 2002 Conway's Maritime Press - ISBN 0-85177-754-6
*Chesnau, Roger and Kolesnik, Eugene (Ed.) "Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships, 1860-1905". Conway Maritime Press, 1979. ISBN 0-83170-302-4
* Jane, Fred T (Ed.) Jane's Fighting Ships 1900
* Brassey's Naval Annual 1904
* Brassey's Naval Annual 1906

ee also

* List of cruiser classes of the Royal Navy


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