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HMS Natal - Cruiser
Country : UK Launched : 30th September 1905
Yard No.316
Launched by Duchess of Devonshire
Designer Sir P Watts
12,660 tons displacement (designed was 13,550 tons)
505.5ft overall x 480ft pp x 73.5ft x 39.9ft depth x 27.5ft draught
Two sets of triple expansion 4 cylinder engines driving twin scews and of 23,621 IHP
23.24 knots on trials
19 Yarrow and 6 cylindrical boilers
Bunkers 1000 tons of coal, stowage for 2050 tons plus 400 tons of oil
Armament six 9.2in, four 7.5in.two 12pdr field guns, twenty-five 3pdrs, two machine guns, eight pom poms and three 18in submerged torpedo tubes
Complement 704
Cost £1,162,366
30 December 1915 blown up by internal explosion at Cromarty Firth
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