HMS Shannon (1906)

	Shannon with short funnels (1908–09)
History
United Kingdom
Name	Shannon
Builder	Chatham Dockyard
Laid down	2 January 1905
Launched	20 September 1906
Completed	November 1907 (for trials)
Commissioned	19 March 1908
Decommissioned	2 May 1919
Fate	Sold for scrap, 12 December 1922
General characteristics
Class and type	Minotaur-class armoured cruiser
Displacement	14,600 long tons (14,800 t)
Length	519 ft (158.2 m) (overall)
Beam	75.5 ft (23.0 m)
Draught	26 ft (7.9 m) (mean)
Installed power	24 Yarrow boilers; 27,000 ihp (20,000 kW);
Propulsion	2 shafts; 2 triple-expansion steam engines
Speed	22 knots (41 km/h; 25 mph)
Range	8,150 nmi (15,090 km; 9,380 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement	842 (1912)
Armament	2 × twin BL 9.2-inch Mk XI guns; 10 × single BL 7.5-inch Mk V guns; 16 × single QF 12-pounder, 18 cwt guns; 5 × 18-inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes;
Armour	Belt: 3–6 in (76–152 mm); Deck: 1.5–2 in (38–51 mm); Barbettes: 7 in (178 mm); Gun turrets: 4.5–8 in (114–203 mm); Conning tower: 10 in (254 mm);

HMS Shannon was a Minotaur-class armoured cruiser built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1900s. Before the First World War, she served with the Home Fleet, generally as the flagship of a cruiser squadron. The ship remained with the Grand Fleet, as the Home Fleet was renamed when the war began, for the entire war, but only participated in a single battle, the Battle of Jutland in May 1916. Shannon spent most of the war unsuccessfully patrolling the North Sea for German warships and commerce raiders. She was paid off in 1919 and sold for scrap in 1922.

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