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CRUISERS

SENTINEL scout cruisers

nearly sister-ship Patrol 1908

Name No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Sentinel (ex-Inchkeith)   Vickers, Barrow 8/6/1903 19/4/1904 4/1905 sold for BU 1/1923
Skirmisher   Vickers, Barrow 29/7/1903 7/2/1905 7/1905 sold for BU 3/1920

 

 

 

Displacement normal, t

2880

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

109.7 pp 116.1 oa

Breadth, m

12.2

Draught, m

4.27

No of shafts

2

Machinery

4-cyl. VTE, 12 Vickers-Express boilers

Power, h. p.

17000

Max speed, kn

25

Fuel, t

coal 410

Armour, mm

deck: 38 - 16, CT: 76

Armament

10 x 1 -76/40 QF Mk I, 8 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss, 2 x 1 - 450 TT

Complement

268

Ship project history: Cruisers scouts, assumed also for usage as destroyer leaders.

Protection: Main deck had slopes.

Modernizations: 1905 - 1906, both: - 8 x 1 - 47/40; + 2 x 1 - 76/40 QF Mk I, 6 x 1 - 57/40 Hotchkiss

1912, both: - 12 x 1 - 76/40; + 9 x 1 - 102/40 QF Mk IV

Naval service: Sentinel served as TS from 7/1920.

 

Sentinel 1905

 

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