Astraea-class
Apollo-class
Built under the Naval Defence Act of 1889. Part of the Astraea-class protected cruisers consisting of the Astraea, Hermione, Charybdis, Bonaventure, Cambrian, Flora, Forte and Fox, preceded by the Apollo-class and succeeded by the Eclipse-class. Laid down by Pembroke Dockyard, England in 1891, launched on 30 January 1893, completed in September 1894, converted into a base ship and renamed HMS Harlich in March 1916, renamed HMS Vivid in September 1921 and sold to Young, Southerland to be broken up in broken up.
General technical class specifications.
With a displacement of 4.360 tons and as dimensions 97,5 (between perpendiculars)-103,48 (over all) x 15,09 x 5,8 metres or 320-339.6 x 49.6 x 19 feet. The machinery consisted of 3-cylinder turbines and 8 cylinder boilers supplying via 2 shafts 7.500 (natural draught)-9.500 (forced) draught ihp allowing a speed of 18 (natural draught)-19,5 (forced draught) knots. With a coal bunker capacity of 1.000 tons and a speed of 10 knots was the range 7.000 nautical miles. Crew numbered 318 men. The armour consisted of a 5,1cm/2” thick deck, 11cm/4.5” gun shields, a 13cm/5” thick engine hatch while the conning tower was protected by 7,6cm/3”-15,2cm/6” thick armour. The armament consisted of 2-15,24cm/6” quick firing guns, 8-12cm/4.7” quick firing guns, 10-5,7cm/2.2”/6pd quick firing guns, 1-4,7cm/1.9”/3pd quick firing gun and 4-45cm/18” torpedo tubes.
