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Raleigh with fore funnel lowered

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Raleigh			Chatham DYd	8.2.1871	1.3.1873	6.1874	sold to BU 7.1905

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	5200
Displacement full, t
Length, m	90.8 pp
Breadth, m	14.9
Draught, m	7.48
No of shafts	1 (hoisting screw)
Machinery	sails + 1 2-cyl HSE, 9 rectangular boilers
Power, h. p.	5639
Max speed, kts	15.3
Fuel, t	coal 540
Endurance, nm(kts)	2100(10)
Armament	2 x 1 - 229/14 MLR Mk IV, 14 x 1 - 178/16 MLR Mk III, 6 x 1 - 160/16 64pdr 64cwt MLR
Complement	530

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Project history

In Raleigh the iron hull, from keel to bulwarks, was clad with a double layer of 76mm timber. The first layer was applied vertically and the second layer horizontally. Ship was coppered, without double bottom or wing compartments, but had lateral watertight bulkheads extended up to the upper deck. There were three complete decks. The two 9in guns in Raleigh were chase guns, mounted at extremities. Four of the 64pdr guns were truck-mounted on the upper deck, on the broadside.     The engines of Inconstant, Raleigh and Shah were of greater size and power than any existing cruiser. Ship had telescopic funnels and hoisting screw. She was ship rigged, with fixed bowsprits. Raleigh's sail plan had no counterpart in the navy. Her lower and topsail yards were on a second class scale, whilst her topgallants and royals were equal to the largest, and because of this, apart from gaffs and courses, her sails were not interchangeable with any other vessel. Boilers operated at 2.1 kgf/cm2.

Modernizations

1883: - 8 x 1 - 178/16; + 8 x 1 - 152/26 BL Mk II, 8 x 1 - 127/25 BL Mk I/II/III/IV/V, 4 x 1 - 81/19 12pdr 8cwt BL, 12 x 6 - 11.4/59, 2 - 356 TC

Naval service

No significant events.