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Naval Art  Countries Royal Navy Ships HMS Minotaur to HMS Princess Royal  HMS Powerful |
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HMS Powerful Steaming up Channel on her Return from South Africa by Charles Dixon. The First Class armoured cruiser HMS Powerful steaming up channel on her return from South Africa in April 1900. She had become famous for her work in the Boer War, her commander Captain Lambton leading a naval brigade to relieve the town of Ladysmith. |
HMS Powerful Launched : 24th July 1895 The Powerful and her sister ship the Terrible were the largest cruisers in the world during the 1890's. The Powerful was built by the Naval Construction and Armaments Company in Barrow-in-Furness and launched on the 24th July 1895. HMS Powerful was built to compete against the New Russian Cruisers Rurik and Rossiya, these two Russian ships were the largest and longest warships built at the time. HMS powerful and her sister ship HMS Terrible were very expensive to build costing twice the cost of the Edger class built two to three years earlier . HMS Powerful started service in the China Station and in 1899 became famous for landing naval brigades (along with HMS Terrible) at the cape to to take part in the relief of Ladysmith. during the Boer war. She went into refit in 1902 until 1904 when she went into the reserve fleet. used for harbour service in 1912 and from 1915 she was used as a training ship. until the late1920's and was renamed HMS Impregnable II in 1919. finally scrapped in 1929. Displacement: 14,200 tons, Speed: 22 Knots, Compliment: 894 Armament: Two 9.2 inch guns, Twelve 6-inch guns, Sixteen 12 pdr, QF. Twelve 3 pounder QF, Four 18 -inch Torpedo Tubes (submerged) |
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