HMS Orlando (1886)

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Name: HMS Orlando
Builder: Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company, Jarrow
Laid down: April 23, 1885
Launched: August 3, 1886
Fate: Sold for breaking up July 11, 1905
General characteristics
Displacement: 5,600 tons
Length: 300 ft (91 m) p/p
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) Mk V guns (2 x 1)
10 x BL 6-inch (152.4 mm) guns (10 x 1)
6 × 6 pdr guns (6 × 1) QF
10 × 3 pdr guns (10 × 1) QF
6 × 18 in (457 mm) torpedo tubes:
4 above-water broadside
1 bow and 1 stern submerged
Armour: 10 in (254 mm) belt
12 in (304.8 mm) conning tower

HMS Orlando was the lead ship of the Orlando-class of first-class cruisers built in the yards of Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company, Jarrow and launched on August 3, 1886.

She was the flagship of Charles Ramsay Arbuthnot on the Australia Station from 1892 to 1895. During the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, sailors from HMS Orlando formed part of the force led by Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Seymour attempting to relieve the British Legation in Beijing. A replica of a bell captured from the Taku Forts forms part of a memorial to HMS Orlando in Victoria Park, Portsmouth.

HMS Orlando was sold for scrapping on July 11, 1905 to Ward of Morecambe.

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