hms hms class protected cruisers built royal_navy 1890s completion ship assigned mediterranean_fleet helped escort royal yacht cruise mediterranean_sea refit assigned returned home years later reduced reserve converted training ship remained role names year sold scrap broken belgium built ship afloat design description class designed protect british merchant shipping fast cruisers like smaller versions powerful class ships length perpendiculars feet beam feet draught feet inches displaced long tons batch powered pair cylinder triple expansion steam engines driving shaft designed produce total indicated horsepower maximum speed knots mph steam provided belleville boilers carried maximum long tons coal hulls copper reduce complement numbered officers ratings main armament class ships consisted quick firing inch guns forecastle stern protected gun shields remaining dozen guns armoured casemates broadside ships carried rounds gun protection torpedo boats provided dozen pounder cwt guns rounds gun provided pounder hotchkiss guns addition ships carried pair pounder cwt landing guns use ashore ships armed pair submerged inch torpedo tubes sloped armoured deck ranged thickness inches flat slopes respectively casemates protected inches harvey armour gun shields inches armour conning towers protected inch walls roofs inches thick tubes protecting ammunition inches thick construction career fifth ship serve royal_navy laid december dockyard ship launched april wife sir fitted dock september sailed later month completion completion september assigned mediterranean_fleet command captain relieved march captain month ship cruisers tasked escort ocean liner hms commissioned royal yacht world tour duke cornwall york later king george queen mary captain appointed command march june year served flagship rear admiral sir commander mediterranean_fleet visited attend festivities connection opening agricultural exhibition king victor following month ship gibraltar coronation returned home later year began lengthy refit assigned returned home years later ship reduced reserve chatham dockyard return transferred shortly assigned 9th cruiser squadron new reserve fleet following year ship converted boys training ship renamed september later renamed november finally january torpedo school ship sold scrap arrived belgium august begin demolition
HMS Andromeda (1897)