Английская Википедия:HMS Immortalité (1887)
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Шаблон:Infobox ship imageШаблон:Infobox ship careerШаблон:Infobox ship characteristicsHMS Immortalité was one of seven Шаблон:Sclass armoured cruisers built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1880s. She was sold for scrap on 11 January 1907.
Design and description
Immortalité had a length between perpendiculars of Шаблон:Convert, a beam of Шаблон:Convert and a draught of Шаблон:Convert. Designed to displace Шаблон:Convert, all of the Orlando-class ships proved to be overweight and displaced approximately Шаблон:Convert. The ship was powered by a pair of three-cylinder triple-expansion steam engines, each driving one shaft, which were designed to produce a total of Шаблон:Convert and a maximum speed of Шаблон:Convert using steam provided by four boilers with forced draught. The ship carried a maximum of Шаблон:Convert of coal which was designed to give her a range of Шаблон:Convert at a speed of Шаблон:Convert. The ship's complement was 484 officers and ratings.[1]
ImmortalitéШаблон:'s main armament consisted of two breech-loading (BL) [[BL 9.2 inch gun Mk III - VII|Шаблон:Convert Mk V guns]], one gun fore and aft of the superstructure on pivot mounts. Her secondary armament was ten [[BL 6 inch gun Mk III IV VI|BL Шаблон:Convert guns]], five on each broadside. Protection against torpedo boats was provided by six quick-firing (QF) 6-pounder Hotchkiss guns and ten QF 3-pounder Hotchkiss guns, most of which were mounted on the main deck in broadside positions. The ship was also armed with six 18-inch (457 mm) torpedo tubes: four on the broadside above water and one each in the bow and stern below water.[1]
The ship was protected by a waterline compound armour belt Шаблон:Convert thick. It covered the middle Шаблон:Convert of the ship and was Шаблон:Convert high.[1] Because the ship was overweight, the top of the armour belt was Шаблон:Convert below the waterline when she was fully loaded.[2] The ends of the armour belt were closed off by transverse bulkheads Шаблон:Convert. The lower deck was Шаблон:Convert thick over the full length of the hull. The conning tower was protected by Шаблон:Convert of armour.[1]
Construction and service
Immortalité, named for the French frigate Immortalité captured in 1798,[3] was laid down on 18 January 1886 by Chatham Royal Dockyard. The ship was launched on 7 June 1887, and completed in July 1889.[4]
In March 1900 she had successful machinery trials in the North Sea, and was transferred to the A division of the Medway Fleet Reserve.[5] She was commissioned at Chatham on 21 May 1901 by Captain Sackville Carden as seagoing tender to the Wildfire, flagship at Sheerness.[6] She took part in the fleet review held at Spithead on 16 August 1902 for the coronation of King Edward VII,[7] and two months later Captain Archibald Peile Stoddart succeeded Carden in command on 16 October 1902.[8]
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- ↑ 1,0 1,1 1,2 1,3 Chesneau & Kolesnik, p. 65
- ↑ Friedman, p. 146
- ↑ Silverstone, p. 242
- ↑ Lyon & Winfield, p. 269
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite newspaper The Times
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