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THE BRITISH EMPIRE: — UNITED KINGDOM

Cruisers

c«.5

1897- 1898

Name

Armour

O

1898— 1899

1899-

1900

1900- 1901

1901- 1902

/'Cressy I Hogiie I Sutlej . j Aboukir I Euryalus '^Bacchante

r Drake J Good Hop I Leviatlian t King Alfred

{Essex . Kent . Monmouth

( Berwick \ Cornwall

.' Suffolk

I Cumberland

!| Donegal j \ Lancaster

^Devonshire I Argyll I J Antrim

I Roxburgh .

I Carnarvon

I. Hampshire .

Main Armament

Tons incheslinches

-12,000

^4,100

^9,800

.850

1902- 1903

1903— 1904

1904— 1905

( Black Prince I D, of Edinburj

/"Warrior J Achilles I Natal V Cochrane .

r Minotaur . '. Shannon . \^ Defence

1889- 1900

S -211889- 6S 1890

Edgar

Hawke

Theseus

Endymion

Grafton

, Gibraltar

/ Crescent . \ Royal Arthur

.500

6 2 9-2in.; 12 6in.

6 2 9-2in.; 16 ein.

14 6in.

6 6 4 7-5in.; 6 Gin.

6 6 , 6 9-2in,; 10 6in.

6 6 9-2in.; 4 7-5in,

4 9-2in.; 10 7-5in.

6 1 2 9-2in.; 10 6in,

2 9-2in.; 10 6)n.

1 9-2in.; 12 6in.

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21,000

30,000

Knots

21

24

24

22,000 to 23

2 21,000

2 23,500

22-5

22-5

2 23,500 ! 22-5

2 27,000 22-5 ;

NpTp.— One of the Covnty class, Bedford, has been lost.

2

12,000

19

2

12,000

19

2

12,000

19