HMS Ringarooma (1889)

For other ships of the same name, see HMS Psyche.

History
Layout of a Pearl-class cruiser from Brassey's Naval Annual, 1897
United Kingdom
Name:	HMS Psyche
Builder:	J & G Thomson, Glasgow
Launched:	10 December 1889
Renamed:	Ringarooma (1890)
Fate:	Sold in May 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:	4 × double-ended cylindrical boilers 7,500 ihp (5,600 kW) on forced draught
Propulsion:	2 × 3-cylinder triple-expansion steam engines 2 screws^[1]
Speed:	19 knots (35 km/h)
Complement:	217
Armament:	8 × QF 4.7 inch (120 mm) guns 8 × 3-pounder guns 4 × machine guns 2 × 14-inch (356 mm) torpedo tubes
Armour:	Deck: 1–2 in (25–51 mm) Gunshields: 2 in (51 mm) Conning tower: 3 in (76 mm)

Crewmen aboard Ringarooma, Brisbane, 1894

HMS Ringarooma was a Pearl-class cruiser of the Royal Navy, originally named HMS Psyche, built by J & G Thomson, Glasgow and launched on 10 December 1889.^[2] Renamed on 2 April 1890, as Ringarooma as part of the Auxiliary Squadron of the Australia Station. She arrived in Sydney with the squadron on 5 September 1891. She was damaged after running aground on a reef at Makelula Island, New Hebrides on 31 August 1894 and was pulled off by the French cruiser Duchaffault.^[2] Between 1897 and 1900 she was in reserve at Sydney. On 15 February Captain Frederick St. George Rich was appointed in command.^[3] She left the Australia Station on 22 August 1904. She was sold for £8500 in May 1906 to Forth Shipbreaking Company for breaking up.^[2]

Notes

1 2 3 Winfield (2004) p.276
1 2 3 Bastock 1988, pp. 102–103.
↑ "Naval & Military intelligence" The Times (London). Saturday, 3 February 1900. (36056), p. 14.

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.

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Pearl-class cruisers

Royal Navy	Pandora / Katoomba Phoenix / Tauranga Pelorus / Mildura Psyche / Ringarooma Persian / Wallaroo / Wallington / Persian Pallas Phoebe Pearl Philomel

Royal New Zealand Navy	Philomel

Preceded by: Barham class Followed by: Apollo class

List of cruisers of the Royal Navy

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