"Edwardian Homecoming: Cressy Class Armoured Cruiser and Tribal Class Destroyers"
"Edwardian Homecoming: Cressy Class Armoured Cruiser and Tribal Class Destroyers"
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Original Water Colour & Body Colour
Image size: 12 x 18 1/2 inches (30.5 x 47 cm)
Signed, lower right
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A Cressy class armoured cruiser flying her paying-off pennant returning to the Channel to pay off after service on the North American and West Indies Station. The destroyers are ‘Tribal’ class in black colour scheme that was used until World War 1.
Armoured cruisers were meant to accompany the battle fleet, and were large vessels, (bigger than some contemporary battleships). With their four tall funnels, lines of ventilators, clouds of smoke and ram bow, the 6 ships of the Cressy class were Euryalus, Aboukir, Bacchante, Cressy, Hogue andSutlej. Built 1899 – 1902 they typify the image of King Edward’s navy. They had huge crews of over 700, sometimes up to 200 stokers to feed the furnaces that fired the boilers, powering the noisy reciprocating steam engines. Sometimes if lucky they could achieve 21 knots. The Cressy class were over 400 feet long, 12,000 tons armed with 2 x 9.2”, 12 x 6” guns. When built, powerful ships, but they were obsolete before the end of Edward VIII’s reign. The Cressy class served often on foreign stations and in home waters. All were in reserve by 1910, eclipsed byAdmiral Fisher’s battlecruisers. During World War 1 Aboukir, Cressy and Hogue were all torpedoed on 22 September 1914 by U 9.
The new destroyers of the ‘Tribal’ class, fast, oil-fired turbine-powered torpedo-armed ships, capable of 36 knots. The destroyer equivalent to Admiral Fisher’s Dreadnought, they contrast with the ponderous armoured cruiser.
The 12 ‘Tribal’ class destroyers were completed between 1907 and 1909. They were between 870 and 970 tons and armed with 2 x 18” torpedoes and 5 x 12 pounders. They needed 70 crew and saw service throughout the First World War, Nubian and Zulu were severely damaged and cobbled together into one ship, Zubian.
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