She was built at Chatham and launched on 20 September 1906.
HMS SHANNON commissioned at Chatham on 10 March, 1908, under Captain James A. Fergusson, with the crew from HMS Leviathan and ratings from Chatham. Rear-Admiral George A. Callaghan, commanding the Fifth Cruiser Squadron, transferred his flag from HMS Leviathan to HMS SHANNON on the same day.
At the outbreak of WWI she was attached to the 2nd Cruiser Squadron with the Grand Fleet and in November 1914 she was refitting at Cromarty. She fought at and survived the Battle of Jutland in May 1916 and in November that year was based at Murmansk. In the years 1917 – 1918 she was employed on escort duties with the Atlantic convoys.
She served in the First World War with her sisters and fought at Jutland, where she was captained by John S. Dumaresq. Unlike her sister, HMS Defence, she survived the battle, and the war, to be sold to McLellan of Bo’ness, Scotland, for breaking up on 12 December 1922.
Name: HMS SHANNON
Builder: Chatham Dockyard
Launched: 20 September 1906
Fate: Sold on 12 December 1922
General characteristics
Class and type: Minotaur-class armoured cruiser
Displacement: 14,600 long tons (14,800 t)
Length: 490 ft (149.4 m) between perpendiculars
519 ft (158.2 m) overall
Beam: 74.5 ft (22.7 m)
Draught: 26 ft (7.9 m)
Installed power: 27,000 ihp (20,000 kW)
Propulsion: 2 shafts, 24 Yarrow water-tube boilers
2 vertical triple-expansion steam engines
Speed: 23 knots (43 km/h; 26 mph)
Range: 8,150 nmi (15,090 km; 9,380 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement: 802
Armament: 2 × 2 - BL 9.2-inch (234 mm) Mk XI guns
10 × 1 - BL 7.5-inch (191 mm) Mk V guns
16 × 1 - QF 12 pounder 18 cwt guns
5 × submerged 18–in (450 mm) torpedo tubes
Armour: Belt: 3–6 in (76–152 mm)
Deck: 1.5–2 in (38–51 mm)
Barbettes: 7 in (178 mm)
Gun turrets: 4.5–8 in (114–203 mm)
Conning tower: 10 in (254 mm)
Delandre lable
Source: Wikipedia; http://www.kenthistoryforum.co.uk/index ... ic=12295.0;
Peter Crichton
Guyana 2015 $80 sg?, scott? (in centre of sheet only guns are visible)
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