HMS Immortalité (1887)
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| Name: | HMS Immortalité |
| Namesake: | The French word for immortality, used as a name for Royal Navy ships since the capture of the French frigate Immortalité in 1798 and her commissioning into the Royal Navy as the first HMS Immortalité |
| Builder: | Chatham Dockyard |
| Laid down: | 18 January 1886 |
| Launched: | 7 July 1887 |
| Fate: | Sold for breaking up 1 January 1907 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 5,600 tons |
| Length: | 300 ft (91 m) |
| Beam: | 56 ft (17 m) |
| Draught: | 22.5 ft (6.9 m) |
| Propulsion: |
3-cylinder triple-extension steam engines two shafts 4 double-ended boilers 5,500 hp 8,500 hp forced-draught |
| Speed: |
17 knots natural draught 18 knots forced draught |
| Range: | 10,000 nautical miles (19,000 km) at 10 knots (19 km/h) |
| Complement: | 484 |
| Armament: |
2 × BL 9.2-inch (233.7 mm) guns (2 x 1) 1 bow and 1 stern submerged |
| Armour: |
10 in (254 mm) belt |
For other ships of the same name, see HMS Immortalité.
File:HMS Immortalité (1887) firing salute.jpg
Immortalité firing a salute in Nagasaki harbor in Japan in honor of Queen Victoria's 81st birthday on 24 May 1897.
HMS Immortalité was a ship of the Orlando-class of armored cruisers of the British Royal Navy built in the yards of Earle of Hull and launched on 7 July 1887. She was sold for scrapping on 1 January 1907 to S. Breaking Company of Blackwall.
References
- Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475.
- Roger Chesneau and Eugene M. Kolesnik, ed., Conway's All The Worlds Fighting Ships, 1860-1905, (Conway Maritime Press, London, 1979), ISBN 0-85177-133-5
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