HMS Berwick (1902)
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| Name: | HMS Berwick |
| Builder: | Beardmore |
| Launched: | 20 September 1902 |
| Fate: | Sold, 1 July 1920 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Monmouth-class armoured cruiser |
| Displacement: | 9,800 long tons (10,000 t) |
| Length: | 463 ft 6 in (141.27 m) |
| Beam: | 66 ft (20 m) |
| Draught: | 25 ft (7.6 m) |
| Installed power: | 22,000 ihp (16,000 kW) |
| Propulsion: |
2 × 4-cylinder triple-extension steam engines 31 × Niclausse boilers 2 × shafts |
| Speed: | approx. 23 kn (26 mph; 43 km/h) |
| Complement: | 678 |
| Armament: | 14 × BL 6 in (150 mm) Mk VII guns, 9 × 12 pdr (5.4 kg) guns |
| Armour: | |
HMS Berwick was a Monmouth-class armoured cruiser of the British Royal Navy. She was launched on 20 September 1902. In 1908, she collided with the destroyer Tiger when the destroyer crossed Berwick's bows during an exercise in the English Channel, south of the Isle of Wight. Tiger was sliced in two and sank with the loss of 28 lives.
She served in the First World War with most of her sisters, and survived to be sold for scrap on 1 July 1920. Berwick was eventually towed to Hamburg on 28 August 1920 to be broken up.
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.
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HMS Berwick
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