HMS Phoebe (1890)

HMS Phoebe in Hobart, Tasmania in 1903.
History
United Kingdom
Name:	HMS Phoebe
Builder:	HMNB Devonport
Launched:	1 July 1890
Fate:	Sold in July 1906 for breaking up.
General characteristics
Class & type:	Pearl-class cruiser
Displacement:	2,575 tons
Length:	278 ft (85 m) oa 256 ft (78 m) pp[1]
Beam:	41 ft (12 m)[1]
Draught:	15 ft 6 in (4.72 m)
Installed power:	7,500 ihp (5,600 kW) on forced draught
Propulsion:	2 × 3-cylinder triple-expansion steam engines 4 × double-ended cylindrical boilers 2 screws[1]
Speed:	19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph)
Complement:	217
Armament:	8 × QF 4.7 in (120 mm) guns 8 × 3-pounder guns 4 × machine guns 2 × 14 in (360 mm) torpedo tubes
Armour:	Deck: 1–2 in (25–51 mm) Gunshields: 2 in (51 mm) Conning tower: 3 in (76 mm)

HMS Phoebe was an Pearl-class cruiser of the Royal Navy, built at the HMNB Devonport and launched on 1 July 1890.^[2] She served as part of the Cape and West Africa Station from 1893 until 1897. During this time she participated in the Benin Expedition.^[2] After spending two years in reserve she left Plymouth for Australia in early March 1901 to commence service on the Australia Station.^[3] She left the Australia Station on 23 December 1905 for England.

Fate

She was paid off and sold in July 1906 to A.Anderson, Copenhagen.^[2]

A Pearl-class cruiser from Brassey's Naval Annual, 1897

Notes

1. Winfield (2004) p.276
2. Bastock 1988, p.119.
3. "Naval & Military intelligence" The Times (London). Saturday, 9 March 1901. (36398), p. 12.

References

• Bastock, John (1988), Ships on the Australia Station, Child & Associates Publishing Pty Ltd; Frenchs Forest, Australia. ISBN 0-86777-348-0
• Winfield, Rif & Lyon, David (2004). The Sail and Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815–1889. London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-032-6. OCLC 52620555.