hms hms class protected cruiser built royal_navy late 1890s ship boilers troublesome decommissioned single foreign deployment served stationary training ship sold scrap design description class cruisers designed sir designed colonial service support main fleet class served variety water tube boiler designs unsatisfactory ship decommissioned years service hms displaced long tons overall length feet inches beam feet inches draft feet powered inverted cylinder vertical triple expansion steam engines driving propeller shaft steam supplied coal fired water tube boilers engines intended develop maximum indicated horsepower forced draft developed total indicated horsepower sea trials gave maximum speed knots mph ship crew officers men armed single inch guns pounder guns machine guns inch torpedo tubes protective deck ranged inches thickness ship conning tower walls inches thick inch guns protected gun shields inches thick service hms laid dockyard december launched november completed ship served single commission suffered continuous boiler problems january stationed protect british interests especially kuwait commander appointed command late march november december cruisers escorted lord tour middle_east boilers unreliable removed effective list october admiral lord fisher started ineffective ships sea lord laid pending decision final disposal disarmed january stationary training ship engineers sold scrap october dover
HMS Pomone (1897)