Sold for Scrap 1956
Built Pembroke Dockyard, laid down December 1895, completed September 1899.
Length 435 feet pp 462 feet 6 inches overall, beam 69 feet, draught 25 feet 6 inches, displacement 11,00 tons load.
Propulsion:
2 shaft triple expansion engines, 16.500/18,000 ihp, 20/20.5 knots
First Class Cruiser
Speed 16.5 Knots
Armament 16 x 6 inch Guns, 3 x 3pdr Guns, Torpedoes
This was a sound but slow ship. She was made obsolete with the re-introduction of the armoured cruisers. She became the Powerful II in 1913, Impregnable II in 1919 and the Defiance in 1931.
Boys training ship Devonport
Broken up in Belgium in 1956
