Australian HMAS Brisbane, sister ship of the Sydney
German SMS Emden
Part of the Town-class light cruisers Chatham-class design just like the HMAS Brisbane (1913) and Melbourne (1911). Laid down by London and Glasgow Engineering and Iron Shipbuilding Company, Scotland on 11 February 1911, launched on 29 August 1912, commissioned on 26 June 1913, forced the German cruiser SMS Emden to run ashore after heavily damaging her with gunfire in the Battle of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands on 9 November 1914, decommissioned on 8 May 1928 and broken up at Cockatoo Island, Australia in 1929.
Displacement 5.500 (standard) tons and as dimensions 130 (between perpendiculars)-139,202 (over all) x 15,19 x 6,07 maximum) metres or 456.8 3/8” x 49.10 x 19.11 feet. Oil and coal fuelled machinery consisting of Parsons turbines and Yarrow boilers delivering 25.000shp allowing with the 4 screws a speed of 11.5 (cruising) 25 (maximum design)-25,7 (trial) knots. Her crew numbered 376-475 men (in times of war). The armament consisted of 8x1-15,2cm/6” breech loading Mk XI guns protected by 10,2cm/4’” open-backed gunshields, 1-7,6cm/3” anti aircraft gun, 1-12pd field field gun to be used ashore, 4-4,7cm/1.9”/3pd saluting guns, 2 depth charge chutes, 10-303” machineguns and 2x1-45cm/18” submerged torpedo tubes in the broadsides. The armour consisted of a belt with a thickness 3,8cm/1.5” (bow and stern)-7,6cm/3” (amidships), while the machinery and magazine spaces were also protected just like the 10,2cm/4”conning tower. Fitted out with a Sopwith Pup plane.
