HMS Pelorus (1896)

HMS Pelorus was the first of the Pelorus-class cruisers, and was laid down at Sheerness dockyard in 1895.Completed and commissioned into the Royal Navy in 1897, she was designed by Sir William White.She had reciprocating triple expansion engines and Normand water-tube boilers which could give 7,000 horsepower (5,200 kW) for limited periods of time with forced draught, and 5,000 horsepower (3,700 kW) under natural draught.The following year she paid off at Devonport, had her boilers repaired,[4] and in August was towed to Clydebank to be refitted by Messrs J.This article about a specific naval ship or boat of the United Kingdom is a stub.
Protected cruiser HMS Pelorus during WWI
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