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Revision as of 19:29, 29 December 2014

Six Cadmus class sloops were completed for the Royal Navy from 1901 to 1904. They were the last class of cruiser-like masted sloops built in Britain. When the term was revived during the First World War it was used for a completely new type of anti-submarine escort.

Design & Construction

Template:UK-Espigele was the last Royal Navy warship given a figurehead.[1]

Performance

Although built with masts and rigged as schooners, Template:UK-Espiegele was never given sails and the rigging was removed from all six in 1914.[2]

On trial all six exceeded their design speed by around half a knot.[3]

Armament

[4][5]

As Completed

  • six 4-inch QF Mk III
  • four 3-pounders
  • three machine guns

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 60.
  2. Lyon; Winfield. The Steam & Sail List. p. 279.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 60.
  4. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 60.
  5. Lyon; Winfield. The Steam & Sail List. p. 279.

Bibliography

  • Chesneau, Robert; Kolesnik, Eugene (editors) (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).
  • Lyon, David; Winfield, Rif (2004). The Sail & Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy, 1815-1889. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1861760329. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).


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