Английская Википедия:HMS Sirius (1890)
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Шаблон:Infobox ship imageШаблон:Infobox ship careerШаблон:Infobox ship characteristicsHMS Sirius was an Шаблон:Sclass of the British Royal Navy which served from 1892 to 1918 in various colonial posts such as the South and West African coastlines and off the British Isles as a hastily converted minelayer during the First World War.
Design and construction
The Naval Defence Act 1889 resulted in orders being placed for 21 second-class protected cruisers of the Шаблон:Sclass, of which, two, HMS Sirius and Шаблон:HMS, were ordered from Armstrong's Elswick shipyard.[1]
Sirius had an overall length of Шаблон:Convert a beam of Шаблон:Convert and a draught of Шаблон:Convert. Displacement was Шаблон:Convert. She was one of 10 ships of the class that was sheathed in wood and copper to reduce fouling. An armoured deck of between Шаблон:Convert and Шаблон:Convert protected the ship's magazines and machinery, while the ship's conning tower had Шаблон:Convert of armour and the gunshields Шаблон:Convert. Two [[QF 6 inch Mk I - III naval gun|QF Шаблон:Convert guns]] were mounted fore and aft on the ship's centreline, while six 4.7 in (120 mm) guns were mounted three on each broadside. 8 six pounder guns and 1 three pounder provided protection against torpedo boats.[2]
Sirius was laid down in September 1889, launched on 27 October 1890[2] and entered service in September 1891.[3]
Service
Sirius served off America from 1892 to 1895 and on the China Station from 1903 to 1905.[4] On return from overseas, she went into reserve at Devonport. In February 1912, Sirius became part of the training squadron.[5]
In October 1914 Sirius was one of a number of obsolete warships deployed to support Belgian troops during the Battle of the Yser, carrying out shore bombardments from 23 October.[6][7] Sirius served as part of the Nore Command from 1914 to March 1915,[4][5] being used as a guard ship on the east coast of the United Kingdom,[8] and was then sent to serve off West Africa, where she remained on station until 1918.[4][5]
In April 1918, Sirius was scuttled in the mouth of Ostend harbour in Belgium during the failed First Ostend Raid. This operation was intended to block the harbour mouth and prevent the transit of German U-boats and other raiding craft from Bruges to the North Sea. German countermeasures were too effective, however, and Sirius and her sister ship and fellow blockship Шаблон:HMS were eventually scuttled by their crews outside the harbour mouth on 23 April 1918 after running aground on a sandbank. The wrecks were broken up after the war.[9]
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- ↑ Brook 1999, pp. 74–75.
- ↑ 2,0 2,1 Ошибка цитирования Неверный тег
<ref>; для сносокconways60 p76не указан текст - ↑ Brook 1999, p. 74.
- ↑ 4,0 4,1 4,2 Brook 1999, p. 75.
- ↑ 5,0 5,1 5,2 Gardiner and Gray 1985, p. 15.
- ↑ Corbett 1920, pp. 222, 228.
- ↑ Naval Staff Monograph No. 18 1922, p. 13.
- ↑ Corbett 1921, pp. 22, 234.
- ↑ Шаблон:London Gazette
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