Sold for Scrap 1920
Built Chatham Dockyard, laid down December 1900, completed April 1904.
Size:
Length 350 feet pp 372 feet overall, beam 54 feet, draught 20 feet 6 inches, displacement 5,880 tons load.
Propulsion:
2 shaft TE engines, 12,500 ihp, 21kts
Trials:
Challenger 12,781 ihp = 21.79 knots
Armour:
3in gun shields, 3-1.5in decks
Armament:
11 x 6in QF (11 x 1), 9 x 12 pounder QF (9 x 1), 6 x 3 pounder QF (6 x 1), 2 x 18in TT
Comments:
Crew 450.
World War 1 Service:
9th Cruiser Squadron Mid Atlantic.
September 1914 Captured German steamer Ulla Boog.
1914 West Africa including blockade of SMS Konigsberg.
13 June 1916 Bombarded Dar es Salaam.
1920 Sold for scrap.
