Designed by Philip Watts for the yard of Armstrong, Elswick, England to be exported. Laid down in February 1891, launched on 26 July a year later, completed on 27 January 1893 and finally stricken and broken up in 1930. With a displacement of 3,600 tons (Conways all the world fighting ships 1860-1905, according to The Naval Annual for 1913 3,570 tons) were her dimensions 354’ x 44’ x 16’6” or 107,9 x 13,4 x 5,03 metres (Conways; Annual 1913 354‘ x 44‘ x19½’). The 2-shaft vertical triple expansion engines and 8 cylindrical boilers supplied 14,000 ihp allowing a speed of 22,25 knots (Conways; Annual 22,75) with a coal bunker capacity of 350-700 tons (Conways‘Annual 770). Her crew numbered 327 men (Conways; Annual 300). The armament consisted of 4-6”qiuick firing guns, 8-4.7” quick firing guns, 12-3pdr quick firing guns and 5x1-18” (design 14”) torpedo tubes. She was fitted out with a 4.5-3.5 protected deck at the slopes and 3.5”-1.75” in the flat areas 5” thick glacis while the guns were protected by 2” shields and the conning tower by 4”thich armour. Building costs 293,600 pound sterling.
