HMS Talbot (1895)
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| Career |  |
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| Name: | HMS Talbot |
| Builder: | Devonport Dockyard |
| Laid down: | March 1894 |
| Launched: | 25 April 1895 |
| Commissioned: | 15 September 1896 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrapping 6 December 1921 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Eclipse-class cruiser |
| Displacement: | 5,600 long tons (5,690 t) |
| Length: | 350 ft (110 m) |
| Beam: | 53 ft 6 in (16.31 m) |
| Draught: | 20 ft 6 in (6.25 m) |
| Propulsion: |
2 Triple-expansion oil-fired steam engines 8,000 ihp (6,000 kW) 2 screws |
| Speed: | 19.5 knots (22.4 mph; 36.1 km/h) |
| Complement: | 450 |
| Armament: |
As built: |
| Armour: |
• Gun shields: 1.5–3 in (38–76 mm) • Engine hatch: 3 in (76 mm) • Decks: 1.5–3 in (38–76 mm) • Conning tower: 1.5–3 in (38–76 mm) |
HMS Talbot was an Eclipse class protected cruiser of the Royal Navy.
Early career
She was commissioned on 15 September 1895 for service on the America and West Indies Station. She was present at Chemulpo Bay in 1904, during the historical naval battle between two Russian ships, the cruiser Varyag and the gunboat Korietz against a fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Future Arctic explorers and members of Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition Patrick Keohane and Edward Evans served aboard her.
The First World War
During the First World War she was assigned to Cruiser Force G and the 12 Cruiser Squadron operating in the English Channel. In September of 1914 she captured a German merchant ship. In April 1915 she had been sent to the Dardanelles and participated in the Battle of Gallipoli. Talbot was initially attached to the First Battle Squadron of the fleet and supported the landings at the tip of the Peninsula. On 26 April she supported the battleship HMS Goliath during attempts to support the landing on “Y Beach”. In June she was the Senior Naval Officers' ship at Gaba Tepe, and during the Suvla landings she was the flagship of the 3rd Squadron. She remained at Gallipoli throughout the campaign, and covered the evacuation of Anzac beach in December 1915 and of Helles in January 1916.
In May 1916 Talbot was operating off the East African coast as part of the Cape Command. In January 1917 she was at Kiswere (Tanzania), when the second period of German commerce raids began and in 1918 she was off the Cape of Good Hope.
She was sold for scrap on 6 December 1921.
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.
- "World War 1 Naval Combat". Eclipse Class Second Class Protected Cruisers. http://www.worldwar1.co.uk/light-cruiser/hms-Eclipse.html. Retrieved 2007-02-04.
- The Eclipse class
- HMS Talbot's career
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