HMS Blenheim (1890)
HMS Blenheim
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| Name: | HMS Blenheim |
| Builder: | Thames Ironworks & Shipbuilding Company, Leamouth, London |
| Laid down: | October 1888 |
| Launched: | 5 July 1890 |
| Commissioned: | 1891 |
| Decommissioned: | 1926 |
| Reclassified: | Depot ship 1907 |
| Fate: | Sold for breaking up 13 July 1926 |
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| Class and type: | Blake-class protected cruiser |
| Displacement: | 9,150 tons |
| Length: | 375 ft (114 m) |
| Beam: | 65 ft (20 m) |
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| Speed: | 22 knots (41 km/h) |
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HMS Blenheim was a Blake-class first class protected cruiser that served in the Royal Navy from 1890–1926. She was built by Thames Ironworks & Shipbuilding Company at Leamouth, London. The ship was named after the Battle of Blenheim.
Launched 5 July 1890, she displaced 9,150 tons and her steel hull measured 375 feet (114 m) (length) and 65 feet (20 m) (beam) with 20,000 indicated horsepower (15,000 kW) turning 2 propellers giving a top speed of 22 knots (41 km/h). Her main armament was two BL 9.2 inch Mk VI guns (234 mm) and six QF 6 inch guns (152 mm) on the upper deck, and four QF 6 inch guns in 150 mm compound armoured casemates on the main deck. She also carried sixteen 3-pounders, and four 14 inch torpedo tubes (two submerged and two above water).
She was commissioned at Chatham on 1 January 1891.
Sitting Canadian Prime Minister Sir John Thompson died in England, just after being named to Queen Victoria's Privy Council in 1894 and was repatriated to Halifax, Nova Scotia by Blenheim, which was painted black for the occasion.
Prince Henry of Battenberg died from malaria while on active duty onboard HMS Blonde off Sierra Leone in 1896. Blenheim repatriated his body from the Canary Islands. Queen Victoria appointed the commanding officer Captain Edmund S. Poe to the fourth class of the Royal Victorian Order as a mark of appreciation for this service.
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