HMS Sentinel (1904)

History
United Kingdom
Name	Sentinel
Builder	Vickers Limited, Barrow-in-Furness
Laid down	8 June 1903
Launched	19 April 1904
Commissioned	April 1905
Decommissioned	April 1919
Out of service	1920
Reclassified	As a training ship, 1920
Fate	Sold for scrap, 18 January 1923
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type	Sentinel-class scout cruiser
Displacement	2,895 long tons (2,941 t)
Length	360 ft (109.7 m) (p/p)
Beam	40 ft (12.2 m)
Draught	14 ft 9 in (4.5 m) (deep load)
Installed power	16,500 ihp (12,300 kW); 12 water-tube boilers;
Propulsion	2 Shafts, 2 triple-expansion steam engines
Speed	25 knots (46 km/h; 29 mph)
Range	2,460 nmi (4,560 km; 2,830 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement	289
Armament	10 × QF 12-pounder (3 in (76 mm)) guns; 8 × QF 3-pdr (47 mm) guns; 2 × 18 in (450 mm) torpedo tubes;
Armour	Deck: 0.625–1.5 in (16–38 mm); Conning tower: 3 in (76 mm);

HMS Sentinel was one of two Sentinel-class scout cruisers built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. The ship was initially assigned to the Mediterranean Fleet before returning home and being reduced to reserve in 1907. Recommissioned two years later as part of the Home Fleet, she spent the next five years moving on and off of active service in British waters. Sentinel was assigned to coastal defence duties when the First World War began in 1914, although she was transferred to the Mediterranean in 1915. By 1918 the ship had been assigned to the Aegean. After the end of the war in November, Sentinel was sent to the Black Sea as the British attempted to intervene in the Russian Civil War. The ship returned home in early 1919 and was paid off. She became a training ship from mid-1920 to the end of 1922 and was sold for scrap in early 1923.

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