HMS Pathfinder (1904)

	HMS Pathfinder
History
United Kingdom
Name	Pathfinder
Builder	Cammell Laird, Birkenhead
Laid down	15 August 1903
Launched	16 July 1904
Commissioned	18 July 1905
Fate	Sunk by U-21, 5 September 1914
General characteristics (as built)
Type	Scout cruiser
Displacement	2,940 long tons (2,987 t)
Length	370 ft (112.8 m) (p/p)
Beam	38 ft 9 in (11.8 m)
Draught	15 ft 2 in (4.6 m) (deep load)
Installed power	16,500 ihp (12,300 kW); 12 Laird-Normand boilers;
Propulsion	2 Shafts, 2 triple-expansion steam engines
Speed	25 knots (46 km/h; 29 mph)
Range	3,400 nmi (6,300 km; 3,900 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement	289
Armament	10 × QF 12-pdr 3 in (76 mm) guns; 8 × QF 3-pdr (47 mm) guns; 2 × 18 in (450 mm) torpedo tubes;
Armour	Waterline belt: 2 in (51 mm); Deck: 0.75–1.125 in (19.1–28.6 mm); Conning tower: 3 in (76 mm);

HMS Pathfinder was the lead ship of her class of two British scout cruisers, and was the first ship ever to be sunk by a self-propelled torpedo fired by submarine (the American Civil War sloop-of-war USS Housatonic had been sunk by a spar torpedo). She was built by Cammell Laird, Birkenhead, launched on 16 July 1904, and commissioned on 18 July 1905. She was originally to have been named HMS Fastnet, but was renamed prior to construction. During the beginning of World War I, the Pathfinder was sunk on 5 September 1914 by a German U-boat, the SM U-21.

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