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Cruisers
Courageous Class
Devonshire Class
& earlier cruisers

Light Cruisers
"E" Class
Carlisle Cl
"D" Class
Ceres Class
Imp Birmingham
Caledon Class
Centaur Class
Cambrian (Later)
Ex Greek Navy
Cambrian (Earlier)
Caroline Class
Arethusa Class
Chatham (Later)
Chatham (Earlier)
Weymouth Class
Bristol or Town
Blanche
Fearless
Boadicea Type
Sentinel Type
Adventure
Foresight
Highflyer
Astrĉa
Fox
Topaze Class
Talbot Class
Apollo Class
 
As extracted from Jane's Fighting Ships © for 1919

1907 - 9 British Light Cruisers

(Boadicea Type.)


Page 88

BOADICEA (May, 1908).

BOADICEA

  • Normal displacement, 3300 tons.
  • Complement. 317.
  • Length (p.p.), 385 feet. (o.a. 405). Beam, 41 feet., Mean draught, 13.5 feet (14' 10" max.).
  • Guns: 10 - 4 inch (M. VII.) ; 1 - 4 inch anti-aircraft ; 4 - 3 pdr. ; 1 machine.
  • Torpedo tubes (18 inch): 2 above water
  • Armour: (Hadfield). 1" Deck; 4" C.T.; 2.5" Tube
  • Machinery: Parsons turbine; Boilers: 12 Yarrow. Designed H.P. 18,000 = 25 kts.
  • Coal: normal, 450 tons; maximum, 855 tons coal + 200 tons oil.

Name

Builder

Machinery

Laid down

Completed

Trials (mean)
Full power
.

Boilers

Best recent speed

Boadicea

Pembroke Y

Clydebank

July '07

1909

18,536=25.5

Yarrow

27.9

1907 Estimates; Bellona, (1908 Estimates.) for sale 1919.

Source: As extracted from Jane's Fighting Ships © for 1919 - Page 88

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