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Orlando-class cruiser

1887 class of British armored cruisers

Field	Value
section1	{{Infobox ship/image
image	HMSOrlando1897.jpg
image_caption	HMS Orlando
section2	{{Infobox ship/class overview
name	Orlando class
operators
class_before
class_after
built_range	1885–1889
in_commission_range	1887–1906
total_ships_completed	7
total_ships_retired	7
section3	{{Infobox ship/characteristics
type	First class armoured cruiser
displacement	5600 t
length	300 ft
beam	56 ft
draught	22.5 ft
power	*5500 hp
*{{convert	8500	hp	abbr	on}} forced-draught
propulsion	*3-cylinder triple-extension steam engines
speed	*17 kn natural draught
range	10000 nmi at 10 kn
complement	484
armament	*2 × BL 9.2 in Mk V or VI guns (2 x 1)
*10 × [[BL 6 inch gun Mk III IV VI	BL {{convert	6	in	mm	adj	on	sigfig=4}} guns]] (10 x 1)
armour	*Belt: 10 in
*Conning tower: {{convert	12	in	mm	abbr	on}}

8500 hp forced-draught
two shafts
4 double-ended boilers
18 kn forced draught
10 × BL 6 in guns (10 x 1)
6 × QF 6-pounder (57 mm) guns (6 × 1)
10 × QF 3-pounder (47 mm) Hotchkiss guns (10 × 1)
6 × 18-inch (450-mm) torpedo tubes (4 above water broadside, 1 bow and 1 stern submerged)
Conning tower: 12 in

The Orlando class was a seven-ship class of Royal Navy armoured cruisers completed between 1888 and 1889.

Building Programme

Right elevation and deck plan as depicted in Brassey's naval annual 1888}}

On 2 December 1884, the Secretary to the Admiralty stated, "The present Board have been gradually developing, and, as I would venture to say, in an effective manner, our resources for the protection of commerce. The late Board of Admiralty laid down an admirable type for the purpose in the . We have followed in their footsteps by producing the type, and we now propose to go a step further in the same direction, by laying down vessels of the Mersey class, but protected by a belt in lieu of an armoured deck. The belt will, I think, be approved by my hon. Friend who sits behind me (Sir Edward J. Reed)." These belted cruisers were the Orlando class.

The following table gives the build details and purchase cost of the members of the Orlando class. Standard British practice at that time was for these costs to exclude armament and stores. In the table:

Machinery meant "propelling machinery".
Hull included "hydraulic machinery, gun mountings, etc."

Ship	Builder	Maker
of
Engines	Date of	Cost according to	Laid Down	Launch	Completion	(BNA 1895)	(BNA 1903)	Hull	Machinery	Total
excluding
armament
	Palmers, Jarrow	23 Apr 1885	3 Aug 1886	June 1888	£206,647	£60,165	£266,812	£303,065
	Pembroke Dockyard	J&G Thompson	1 Feb 1886	28 Oct 1887	July 1889	£220,550	£64,000	£284,550	£326,110
	Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering, Govan	C & W Earle	21 Apr 1885	25 Nov 1886	October 1888	£195,390	£63,000	£258,390	£299,027
	Robert Napier and Sons, Govan	21 Apr 1885	10 Mar 1887	March 1889	£195,390	£63,000	£258,390	£291,803
	Chatham Dockyard	C & W Earle	18 Jan 1886	7 Jul 1887	July 1889	£221,500	£57,000	£278,500	£332,359
	C & W Earle, Hull	27 Apr 1885	15 Dec 1886	July 1889	£195,890	£61,500	£257,390	£300,149
	Palmers, Jarrow	23 Apr 1885	25 Nov 1886	July 1889	£195,890	£60,165	£256,055	£300,863

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Notes

References

Brassey, T.A. (ed) The Naval Annual 1895
Brassey, T.A. (ed) The Naval Annual 1903

References

[https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1884/dec/02/motion-for-a-paper#S3V0294P0_18841202_HOC_84 Hansard HC Deb 02 December 1884 vol 294 c455] House of Commons, the Secretary to the Admiralty, [[Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey. Sir Thomas Brassey]].
Note that the costs quoted in the 1895 edition and the 1903 edition are not the same. There seems to have been a revision of the costs quoted for British warships in [[Brassey's Naval Annual. ''The Naval Annual'']] between the 1902 and 1903 editions, and a further revision between the 1905 and 1906 editions. (The 1906 edition costs cannot be quoted for the ''Orlando'' class because the class is not listed in the 1906 edition.)
[[Brassey's Naval Annual. The Naval Annual 1895]], p192-200
[[Brassey's Naval Annual. The Naval Annual 1895]], pp. 192–200
[[Brassey's Naval Annual. The Naval Annual 1903]], pp. 236–243

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