Highflyer-class cruiser

	HMS Highflyer
Class overview
Name	Highflyer
Operators	Royal Navy
Preceded by	Pelorus class
Succeeded by	Challenger class
Built	1897–1900
In service	1899–1921
Completed	3
Lost	1
Scrapped	2
General characteristics
Type	Protected cruiser
Displacement	5,600 long tons (5,690 t)
Length	350 ft (106.7 m) (p/p, 372 ft (113.4 m) (o/a)
Beam	54 ft (16.5 m)
Draught	21 ft 6 in (6.6 m)
Installed power	10,000 ihp (7,460 kW); 18 × Belleville boilers;
Propulsion	2 × shafts; 2 × Vertical triple-expansion steam engines;
Speed	20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Complement	450
Armament	11 × single QF 6-inch (152.4 mm) guns; 9 × single QF 12-pounder 12 cwt (3-inch, 76.2 mm) guns; 6 × single 3-pounder (47 mm) quick firing guns; 2 × single 18 inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes;
Armour	Deck: 1.5–3 in (38–76 mm); Gun shields: 3 in (76 mm); Conning tower: 6 in (152 mm);

The Highflyer-class cruisers were a group of three second-class protected cruisers built for the Royal Navy in the late 1890s.

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