HMS Highflyer

The Ship


Sold for Scrap 1921


HMS Highflyer was a Hermes Class Light Cruiser built by Fairfield, laid down June 1897, and completed in December 1899.
Size: Length 350 feet pp 372 feet overall, beam 54 feet, draught 22 feet, displacement 5,600 tons load.

Propulsion: 2 shaft TE engines, 10,000 ihp, 20 knots

Trials: 10,334 ihp = 20.1 knots

Armour: 3in gun shields, 3-1.5in decks

Armament: 11 x 6in QF (11 x 1), 9 x 12 pounder QF (9 x 1), 6 x 3 pounder QF (6 x 1), 2 x 18in TT

Crew 450.

9th Cruiser Squadron Mid Atlantic.
27 August 1914 Sank German Armed Merchant Cruiser Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse.
1914 5th Cruiser Squadron Cape Verde.
1916 West Indies.
1916 North America and West Indies.
1918 East Indies.
1921 Sold for scrap.

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