HMS Katoomba

HMS Katoomba was a Pearl-class cruiser built for the Royal Navy, originally named HMS Pandora, built by Armstrong Whitworth, Elswick, Tyne and Wear and launched on 27 August 1889.[2] Renamed on 2 April 1890, as Katoomba as the flagship of the Auxiliary Squadron of the Australia Station. She arrived in Sydney with the squadron on 5 September 1891. She was damaged in a collision with the tug Yatala in Port Adelaide on 29 December 1891.[3] She left the Australia Station on 16 January 1906. She was sold for £8500 on 10 July 1906 and broken up at Morecambe.[2]

A Pearl-class cruiser from Brassey's Naval Annual, 1897
For other ships with the same name, see HMS Pandora and HMAS Katoomba.
HMS Katoomba in Hobart, Tasmania in 1903.
History
United Kingdom
Name: Pandora
Namesake:
Builder: Armstrong Whitworth, Elswick, Tyne and Wear
Laid down: 15 August 1888
Launched: 27 August 1889
Completed: 1 December 1890
Renamed: Katoomba
Fate: Sold for scrap, 10 July 1906
General characteristics
Class and type: Pearl-class cruiser
Displacement: 2,575 tons
Length:
  • 278 ft (84.7 m) (oa)
  • 265 ft (80.8 m) (pp)[1]
Beam: 41 ft (12 m)[1]
Draught: 15 ft 6 in (4.7 m)
Installed power:
Propulsion: 2 × screws; 2 × 3-cylinder triple-expansion steam engines[1]
Speed: 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph)
Complement: 210
Armament:
Armour:

Notes
  1. Winfield, p. 276
  2. Bastock 1988, p. 101.
  3. "The Katoomba-Yatala Collision, The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA), Thursday 31 December 1891, p.6". Retrieved 4 October 2010.

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