HMS Grafton (1892)
HMS Grafton
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 United Kingdom
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| Name: | HMS Grafton |
| Builder: | Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company |
| Laid down: | 1 January 1890 |
| Launched: | 30 January 1892 |
| Commissioned: | Portsmouth 10 September 1895 |
| Fate: | Sold for breaking up 1 July 1920 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Edgar-class cruiser |
| Displacement: | 7,350 tons |
| Length: | 387.5 ft (118.1 m) |
| Beam: | 60 ft (18 m) |
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HMS Grafton was a first class cruiser of the Edgar class, launched in 1892. She served in colonial service and in the First World War. Grafton survived the war and was broken up in the 1920s.
Grafton was laid down at the Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company's London shipyard on 1 January 1890, and launched on 30 January 1892. She undertook sea trials in June 1893, maintaining a speed of 19 1⁄2 knots (36.1 km/h; 22.4 mph) with her engines under natural draught, where they produced 10,957 indicated horsepower (8,171 kW), and 20 1⁄5 knots (37.4 km/h; 23.2 mph) with engines under forced draught, when they were measured at 13,484 indicated horsepower (10,055 kW).
Commissioned at Portsmouth on 10 September 1895, she served in the China sea on the China station from 22 April 1896 until 10 September 1899.
In December 1901 she was ordered to relieve Warspite as flagship on the Pacific Station. She was commissioned at Chatham by Captain John Locke Marx on 14 January 1902, with a complement of 571 officers and men. Leaving Plymouth on 31 January 1902, she stopped at Madeira, São Vicente, Montevideo and Sandy Point before arriving at the garrison of the Pacific station in Valparaíso in mid-March. Rear-Admiral Andrew Bickford hoisted his flag as Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Station, on Grafton a couple of days later. Captain Colin Richard Keppel transferred as flag captain from Warspite to Grafton on the same day, changing places with Marx.
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