HMS Brilliant (1891)

History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Brilliant
Builder	Sheerness Dockyard
Laid down	1890
Launched	24 June 1891
Commissioned	1893
Honours and; awards	ZEEBRUGGE AND OSTEND 1918
Fate	Scuttled as blockship, 23 April 1918
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General characteristics
Class and type	Apollo-class cruiser
Displacement	3,600 tons
Length	314 ft (95.7 m)
Beam	43.5 ft (13.3 m)
Draught	17.5 ft (5.3 m)
Speed	19.75 knots (36.58 km/h)
Complement	273 to 300 (Officers and Men)
Armament	2 × QF 6-inch (152.4 mm) guns; 6 × QF 4.7-inch (120 mm) guns; 8 × 6-pounders; 2 to 4 × 14 inch torpedo tubes; Converted in 1914 to a lightly armed minelayer.;

HMS Brilliant was an Apollo-class cruiser of the British Royal Navy which served from 1893 to 1918 in various colonial posts and off the British Isles as a hastily converted minelayer during the First World War.

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