HMS Sutlej (1899)
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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Sutlej.
HMS Sutlej was a Cressy-class armoured cruiser built for the Royal Navy around 1900. Upon completion she was assigned to the China Station. In 1906 she became a training ship for the North America and West Indies Station before returning home and being assigned as the flagship of the reserve Third Fleet in 1909. Relieved as flagship in 1910, she remained in reserve until the beginning of World War I in August 1914.
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Name | HMS Sutlej |
Namesake | Two battles on the Sutlej River during the First Anglo-Sikh War |
Builder | John Brown & Company, Clydeside |
Laid down | 15 August 1898 |
Launched | 18 November 1899 |
Commissioned | 6 May 1902 |
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Fate | Sold 9 May 1921, broken up, 1924 |
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Class and type | Cressy-class armoured cruiser |
Displacement | 12,000 long tons (12,000 t) (normal) |
Length | 472 ft (143.9 m) (o/a) |
Beam | 69 ft 6 in (21.2 m) |
Draught | 26 ft 9 in (8.2 m) (maximum) |
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Speed | 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph) |
Complement | 725–760 |
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She was spent most of the war on convoy escort duties before becoming an accommodation ship in 1917 and then a depot ship in 1918. Sutlej was sold for scrap in 1921, but was not broken up until 1924.