HMS Pomone (1897)

HMS Pomone was a Pelorus-class protected cruiser built for the Royal Navy in the late 1890s. The ship's boilers were so troublesome that she was decommissioned in 1904 after only a single foreign deployment. She was hulked in 1910 and served as a stationary training ship until 1922 when she was sold for scrap.

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Pomone.

Pomone
History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Pomone
NamesakePomona
BuilderSheerness Dockyard, Kent
Laid down21 December 1896
Launched25 November 1897
CompletedMay 1899
DecommissionedOctober 1904
Reclassifiedhulked as training ship, 5 Jan 1910
FateSold for scrap, 25 October 1922
General characteristics
Class and typePelorus-class cruiser
Displacement2,135 long tons (2,169 t)
Length
  • 313 ft 6 in (95.6 m) o/a
  • 300 ft (91.4 m) p/p
Beam36 ft 6 in (11.1 m)
Draught16 ft (4.9 m)
Installed power7,000 ihp (5,200 kW)
Propulsion
  • 2 shafts, 2 vertical triple expansion steam engines
  • 16 Blechynden water-tube boilers
Speed20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Range7,000 nautical miles (13,000 km; 8,100 mi)
Complement224
Armament
  • 8 × QF 4-inch (102 mm) guns
  • 8 × QF 3-pounder guns
  • 3 × machine guns
  • 2 × 18-inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes
Armour
  • Deck: 1+1⁄2–2 in (38–51 mm) deck
  • Gunshields: 1⁄4 in (6.4 mm)
  • Conning tower: 3 in (76 mm)
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