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HMS Brilliant (1891)
Apollo-class cruiser of the British Royal Navy / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other ships with the same name, see HMS Brilliant.
HMS Brilliant was an Apollo-class cruiser of the British Royal Navy which served from 1893 to 1918 in various colonial posts and off the British Isles as a hastily converted minelayer during the First World War.
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Name | HMS Brilliant |
Builder | Sheerness Dockyard |
Laid down | 1890 |
Launched | 24 June 1891[1] |
Commissioned | 1893 |
Honours and awards | ZEEBRUGGE AND OSTEND 1918 |
Fate | Scuttled as blockship, 23 April 1918 |
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Class and type | Apollo-class cruiser |
Displacement | 3,600 tons[1] |
Length | 314 ft (95.7 m) |
Beam | 43.5 ft (13.3 m) |
Draught | 17.5 ft (5.3 m) |
Speed | 19.75 knots (36.58 km/h) |
Complement | 273 to 300 (Officers and Men) |
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