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The ''Orlando'' class was a seven ship class of Royal Navy armoured cruisers completed between 1888 and 1889. == Building Programme == 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 . We have followed in their footsteps by producing the 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)."〔(Hansard HC Deb 02 December 1884 vol 294 c455 ) House of Commons, the Secretary to the Admiralty, Sir Thomas Brassey.〕 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.〔Note that the costs quoted in the 1895 edition and the 1903 edition are not the same. There seems to have been a revision of the costs quoted for British warships in ''The Naval Annual'' between the 1902 and 1903 editions, and a further revision between the 1905 and 1906 editions. (The 1906 edition costs cannot be quoted for the ''Orlando'' class because the class is not listed in the 1906 edition.)〕 In the table: *''Machinery'' meant "propelling machinery". *''Hull'' included "hydraulic machinery, gun mountings, etc."〔The Naval Annual 1895 , p192-200〕 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「Orlando-class cruiser」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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