HMS Bacchante (1901)
HMS Bacchante at anchor
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| Name: | HMS Bacchante |
| Namesake: | Bacchante |
| Builder: | John Brown & Company, Clydebank |
| Yard number: | 338 |
| Laid down: | 15 February 1899 |
| Launched: | 21 February 1901 |
| Completed: | 25 November 1902 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap, 1 July 1920 |
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| Class and type: | Cressy-class armoured cruiser |
| Displacement: | 12,000 long tons (12,000 t) (normal) |
| Length: | 472 ft (143.9 m) (o/a) |
| Beam: | 69 ft 6 in (21.2 m) |
| Draught: | 26 ft 9 in (8.2 m) (maximum) |
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| Speed: | 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph) |
| Complement: | 725–760 |
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HMS Bacchante was a Cressy-class armoured cruiser built for the Royal Navy around 1900. Upon completion she was assigned to the Mediterranean Fleet as flagship of the fleet's cruiser squadron. She was reduced to reserve upon her return home in 1905 before returning to the Mediterranean in 1906. Six years later she returned home and was again placed in reserve. Recommissioned at the start of World War I, Bacchante became flagship of the 7th Cruiser Squadron. She was present at the Battle of Heligoland Bight a few weeks after the war began, but saw no combat.
She was transferred to convoy escort duties in the Bay of Biscay in late 1914 before being sent to Egypt in early 1915. Bacchante was then assigned to support Anzac troops during the Gallipoli Campaign by providing naval gunfire. She covered the landing at Anzac Cove in April as well as several subsequent operations. Returning home in late 1916, she became the flagship of the 9th Cruiser Squadron on convoy escort duties off the African coast in mid-1917. Bacchante remained there for the rest of the war and was reduced to reserve in 1919 before being sold for scrap in 1920.
Bacchante was designed to displace 12,000 long tons (12,000 t). The ship had an overall length of 472 feet (143.9 m), a beam of 69 feet 9 inches (21.3 m) and a deep draught of 26 feet 9 inches (8.2 m). She was powered by two 4-cylinder triple-expansion steam engines, each driving one shaft, which produced a total of 21,000 indicated horsepower (15,660 kW) and gave a maximum speed of 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph). The engines were powered by 30 Belleville boilers. On their sea trials all of the Cressy-class cruisers, except the lead ship, exceeded their designed speed. She carried a maximum of 1,600 long tons (1,600 t) of coal and her complement ranged from 725 to 760 officers and enlisted men.
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