HMS Iris (1877)
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.jpg) HMS Iris as built. | |
| Career | |
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| Class and type: | Iris-class despatch vessel, later second-class cruiser |
| Name: | HMS Iris |
| Builder: | Pembroke Dockyard |
| Laid down: | 10 November 1875 |
| Launched: | 12 April 1877 |
| Completed: | April 1879 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrapping 1905 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 3,730 tons |
| Length: |
300 ft (91 m) between perpendiculars 333 ft (101 m) length overall |
| Beam: | 46 ft (14.0 m) |
| Draught: | 22 ft (6.7 m) |
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| Propulsion: | Maudsley horizontal direct-acting compound steam engine, eight oval and four cylindrical boilers, 780 tons coal |
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| Complement: | 275 |
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| Armour: | none |
For other ships of the same name, see HMS Iris.
HMS Iris was an Iris Class second-class cruiser of the Royal Navy. They were the first all-steel ships to serve with the Royal Navy. Her Maudslay machinery produced 7,300 hp, slightly less than her stablemate HMS Mercury, but her 17.35 knots still made her one of the fastest ships of her day.
She was laid down at the Pembroke Dockyard on 10 November 1875, launched on 12 April 1877 and completed on 18 April 1897. She served in the Mediterranean from 1879 to 1887, then in the Portsmouth Reserve from 1887 to 1903. She was a tender to HMS St. Vincent in 1903 and 1904 and was sold off in 1905.
References
- Gardiner, Robert, ed. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905. New York: Mayflower Books, Inc., 1979. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4.
- Morris, Douglas. Cruisers of the Royal and Commonwealth Navies. Maritime Books 1987. ISBN 0 907771 35 1.[dubious ]
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