Orlando-class cruiser

HMS Orlando
Class overview
Name:	Orlando class
Operators:	Royal Navy
Preceded by:	Imperieuse class
Succeeded by:	Blake class
In commission:	1887–1906
Completed:	Seven
General characteristics
Type:	First class armoured cruiser
Displacement:	5,600 tonnes (5,500 long tons)
Length:	300 ft (91 m)
Beam:	56 ft (17 m)
Draught:	22.5 ft (6.9 m)
Installed power:	5,500 hp (4,100 kW) 8,500 hp (6,300 kW) forced-draught
Propulsion:	3-cylinder triple-extension steam engines two shafts 4 double-ended boilers
Speed:	17 knots (31 km/h) natural draught 18 knots (33 km/h) forced draught
Range:	10,000 nautical miles (19,000 km) at 10 knots (19 km/h)
Complement:	484
Armament:	2 × BL 9.2-inch (233.7 mm) Mk V or VI guns (2 x 1) 10 × BL 6-inch (152.4 mm) guns (10 x 1) 6 × QF 6-pounder (57 mm) guns (6 × 1) 10 × QF 3-pounder (47 mm) Hotchkiss guns (10 × 1) 6 × 18-inch (450-mm) torpedo tubes (4 above water broadside, 1 bow and 1 stern submerged)
Armour:	Belt: 10 in (250 mm) Conning tower: 12 in (300 mm)

The Orlando class was a seven ship class of Royal Navy armoured cruisers completed between 1888 and 1889.

On 2 December 1884, the Secretary to the Admiralty stated, "The present Board have been gradually developing, and, as I would venture to say, in an effective manner, our resources for the protection of commerce. The late Board of Admiralty laid down an admirable type for the purpose in the Leander class. We have followed in their footsteps by producing the Mersey type, and we now propose to go a step further in the same direction, by laying down vessels of the Mersey class, but protected by a belt in lieu of an armoured deck. The belt will, I think, be approved by my hon. Friend who sits behind me (Sir Edward J. Reed)." These belted cruisers were the Orlando class.

The following table gives the build details and purchase cost of the members of the Orlando class. Standard British practice at that time was for these costs to exclude armament and stores. In the table:

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