HMS Terrible (1895)
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| Name: | HMS Terrible |
| Builder: | J.& G. Thomson, Clydebank |
| Laid down: | 1894 |
| Launched: | 27 May 1895 |
| Renamed: | Fisgard III, August 1920 |
| Reclassified: | Training School, August 1920 |
| Fate: | Sold July 1932 |
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| Class and type: | Powerful-class cruiser |
| Displacement: | 14,200 tons deep load |
| Length: | 500 ft (150 m) |
| Beam: | 71 ft (22 m) |
| Draught: | 27 ft (8.2 m) |
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| Speed: | 22 knots (41 km/h) |
| Range: | 7,000 nautical miles (13,000 km) at 14 knots (26 km/h) |
| Endurance: | 3000 tons coal |
| Complement: | 894 |
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HMS Terrible was a ship of the Powerful class of protected cruiser in the Royal Navy. She served with her sister ship, Powerful on the China Station and provided landing parties which fought in the relief of the Siege of Ladysmith in the Second Boer War. Crews from the two ships also took part in suppressing the Boxer Rebellion in China.
Terrible was built by J.& G. Thomson on Clydebank and launched on 27 May 1895. December 1898 sea trip, Portsmouth to Gibraltar, 12,500 ihp (9,300 kW) = 18 knots (33 km/h) average. Gibraltar to Malta, average 21.5 knots (39.8 km/h).
Captain Percy Scott was appointed in command in September 1899, to take the ship for service on the China station. Expecting hostilities to break out in South Africa, Scott managed to persuade the Admiralty to allow him to make passage via the Cape of Good Hope rather than the originally planned Suez Canal route.Terrible arrived at the cape in October to find war imminent. With no threat from the sea, Scott set about determining how he might adapt the navy's guns by mounting them on wheels for use on land as to support the army which lacked any long range artillery and found that its ordinary guns were out-ranged by the Boer artillery. The mountings looked somewhat amateurish, causing the authorities to regard them with some considerable suspicion. However, they proved very effective and the role of two of his 4.7inch guns at the Siege of Ladysmith became a matter of some notoriety. At the end of October Scott was appointed Military Commandant of Durban and arrived in Terrible to take up his appointment on 6 November. Scott's time in South Africa came to an end at the end of March 1900, almost coinciding with the relief of Ladysmith, and the Terrible proceeded on its way to China.
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