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HMS ''Crescent'' was a first class cruiser of the . ''Crescent'', and her sister ship , were built to a slightly modified design and are sometimes considered a separate class. She was built at Portsmouth and launched on 30 March 1892. On 11 January 1895 she was left Australia under Captain Arbuthnot. From 1899 until 1903 she was flagship of Vice-Admiral Sir Frederick Bedford, Commander-in-Chief North America and West Indies Station. Commander Henry Hervey Campbell was appointed in command in May 1902, and the same month she visited Bermuda. She served in the First World War, and was sold on 22 September 1921 for breaking up in Germany. ==Construction== ''Crescent'' had a length of long overall and between perpendiculars, with a beam of and a draught of . She displaced .〔Chesneau and Kolesnik 1979, p. 66.〕 Armament consisted of two 9.2 inch guns, on the ships centreline, backed up by ten six-inch guns, of which four were in casemates on the main deck and the remainder behind open shields. Twelve 6-pounder and four 3-pounder guns provided anti-torpedo-boat defences, while four 18 inch torpedo tubes were fitted.〔 The Edgars were protected cruisers, with an arched, armoured deck thick at about waterline level. The casemate armour was thick, with thick shields for the 9.2 inch guns and armour on the ship's conning tower.〔〔Brown 2003, pp. 132–134.〕 It contained four double-ended cylindrical Fairfields boilers feeding steam at to 2 three-cylinder triple expansion engines, which drove two shafts. This gave under forced draught, giving a speed of .〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「HMS Crescent (1892)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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