HMS Foresight

The Ship


Sold for Scrap 1920


HMS Foresight - built Fairfield, laid down October 1903, completed August 1905.

Size:
Length 365 feet pp 379 feet overall, beam 39 feet 3 inches, draught 14 feet 3 inches, displacement 2,860 tons load.

Propulsion:
2 shaft TE engines, 16,500 ihp, 25 knots

Trials:
Foresight 15,800 ihp = 25.28 knots

Armour:
2in belt,1-0.5in decks

Armament:
10 x 12 pounder QF (10 x 1), 8 x 3 pounder QF (8 x 1), 2 x 18in TT

1914 8th Destroyer Flotilla Dover Patrol.
May 1915 Temporarily with the 6th Light Cruiser Squadron Humber.
1915 Mediterranean.
July 1916 Aegean.
1920 Sold for scrap.

My Postcards

Not postally used.
Postcard series: WHS - Kingsway Real Photo, Real Photograph Series
Postcard number: 6 8610

 

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