HMS Orlando was the lead ship of the Orlando class of first-class cruisers built in the yards of Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company, Jarrow and launched on 3 August 1886.
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| Name | HMS Orlando |
| Builder | Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company, Jarrow |
| Laid down | 23 April 1885 |
| Launched | 3 August 1886 |
| Fate | Sold for breaking up 11 July 1905 |
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| Class and type | Orlando-class armoured cruiser |
| Displacement | 5,600 long tons (5,700 t) |
| Length | 300 ft (91 m) p/p |
| Beam | 56 ft (17 m) |
| Draught | 22.5 ft (6.9 m) |
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| Range | 10,000 nautical miles (19,000 km) at 10 knots (19 km/h) |
| Complement | 484 |
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Service history
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She was commanded by Charles Ramsay Arbuthnot on the Australia Station from 1892 to 1895. In 1899 she was assigned to the China Station,[1] Captain James Henry Thomas Burke in command. During the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, sailors from HMS Orlando formed part of the force led by Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Seymour attempting to relieve the British Legation in Beijing. A replica of a bell captured from the Taku Forts forms part of a memorial to HMS Orlando in Victoria Park, Portsmouth.
In late March 1902 she left Hong Kong for Singapore, arriving there on 6 April.[2] After three weeks, she left Penang in late April, homebound,[3] stopping at Colombo on 5 May,[4] Aden on 14 May,[5] Malta on 28 May,[6] and Gibraltar on 2 June, before arriving at Portsmouth four days later.[7] Captain Burke died at sea on 12 May 1902, during the journey, and was buried at Aden.[8] Commander Philip Howard Colomb was in charge for the remainder of the journey. She paid off at Portsmouth on 25 July, and was placed in the B Division of the Fleet Reserve.[9]
HMS Orlando was sold for scrapping on 11 July 1905 to Thos. W. Ward of Morecambe for £10,000.[1]
Notes
edit- ^ a b Bastock, pp.98–99.
- ^ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times. No. 36737. London. 9 April 1902. p. 10.
- ^ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times. No. 36755. London. 30 April 1902. p. 9.
- ^ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times. No. 36761. London. 7 May 1902. p. 10.
- ^ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times. No. 36769. London. 16 May 1902. p. 11.
- ^ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times. No. 36779. London. 28 May 1902. p. 9.
- ^ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times. No. 36788. London. 7 June 1902. p. 9.
- ^ "Obituary - Captain James Burke". The Times. No. 36770. London. 17 May 1902. p. 8.
- ^ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times. No. 36830. London. 26 July 1902. p. 8.
References
edit- Bastock, John (1988), Ships on the Australia Station, Child & Associates Publishing Pty Ltd; Frenchs Forest, Australia. ISBN 0-86777-348-0
- Chesneau, Roger & Kolesnik, Eugene M., eds. (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. Greenwich, UK: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4.
- Friedman, Norman (2012). British Cruisers of the Victorian Era. Barnsley, South Yorkshire, UK: Seaforth. ISBN 978-1-59114-068-9.
- Silverstone, Paul H. (1984). Directory of the World's Capital Ships. New York: Hippocrene Books. ISBN 0-88254-979-0.
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