The armament of the British scout cruiser HMS Blonde according to the Dutch magazine Marineblad 1910-1911 no. 9

An item reported that the British cruiser HMS Blonde had a main armament of 10-10cm/3.93” guns (3 forward, 3 aft and 2 at each side). Further more was she armed with 8 smaller guns and 3 torpedo launchers.(1)

Note

1. Of the Blonde-class scout cruisers, preceded by Boadicea-class and succeeded by Active-class, laid down by Pembroke Royal Dockyard on 6 December 1909, launched on 22 July 1910, completed in May 1911 and sold to T.C. Pas to be broken up in the Netherlands on 6 May 1920. Armament consisted of 10x1-10,2cm/4” breech loading guns, 4x1-4,7cm/1.9”/3pd quick firing guns and 2x1-53cm/21” torpedo tubes. The Dutch newspaper Rotterdamsch nieuwsblad dated 12 May 1920 published an item dated Slikkerveer, Netherlands 9 May reporting that T.C. Pas of Scheveningen bought the British cruisers Pyramus and Blonde, both to be broken up.