| Drake class armoured cruiser | |
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| Class overview | |
| Type: | armoured cruiser |
| Name: | Drake class |
| Preceded by: | Cressy class |
| Succeeded by: | Monmouth class |
| Ships in class: | 4 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 14,150 tons |
| Length: | 533.5 ft (162.61 m) overall |
| Beam: | 71.3 ft (21.74 m) |
| Draught: | 26 ft (7.92 m) |
| Propulsion and power: |
4-cylinder triple-extension steam engines, two shafts, 43 Belleville boilers, 30,000 hp |
| Speed: | 23 knots (24.11 knots, Drake on trials) |
| Protection: | 6 in (254 mm) belt 12 in (304.8 mm) conning tower 6 in (254 mm) turret 2 1/2 in (63.5 mm) deck |
| Complement: | 900 |
| Armament: | 2 × 9.2-inch (234 mm)(2 x 1) 16 x 6-inch (152 mm) QF (16 x 1) 14 × 12 pounder (14 × 1) QF 3 × 3 pounder QF (3 × 1) 2 × 18 in (457 mm) torpedo tubes, submerged |
The Drake-class was a four-ship class of armoured cruisers built around 1900 for the Royal Navy as enlarged versions of the Cressy class. The ships served in the First World War, only half of them surviving it. Drake was torpedoed in 1917, and Good Hope was sunk at the Battle of Coronel.
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Ships of the Class
- HMS Drake
- HMS Good Hope (originally to be HMS Africa)
- HMS King Alfred
- HMS Leviathan
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 | |||
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| 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 |
References
- 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
- Brassey, T.A. (ed) The Naval Annual 1905
- Leyland, J. and Brassey, T.A. (ed) The Naval Annual 1906
Notes
See also
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| Drake · Good Hope · King Alfred · Leviathan |
| Preceded by: Cressy class · Followed by: Monmouth class List of cruisers of the Royal Navy |
