HMS Cressy (1899)
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 HMS Cressy |
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| Class and type: | Cressy-class armoured cruiser |
| Name: | HMS Cressy |
| Namesake: | Battle of Cressy |
| Builder: | Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Govan |
| Laid down: | October 1898 |
| Launched: | 4 December 1899 |
| Fate: | Sunk by U-9 on 22 September 1914 |
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| Tons burthen: | 12,000 tons |
| Length: | 472 ft (144 m) |
| Beam: | 69.5 ft (21.2 m) |
| Propulsion: | triple expansion engines twin screws |
| Speed: | 21 knots (39 km/h) |
| Armament: |
2 × BL 9.2-inch (233.7 mm) Mk X guns |
HMS Cressy was a Cressy-class armoured cruiser in the Royal Navy. Cressy was sunk by the German U-boat U-9 in September 1914.
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[edit] Service history
Shortly after the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914, Aboukir and her sister ships Bacchante, Euryalus, Hogue and Cressy were assigned to the 7th Cruiser Squadron, patrolling the Broad Fourteens of the North Sea, in support of a force of destroyers and submarines based at Harwich which blocked the Eastern end of the English Channel from German warships attempting to attack the supply route between England and France.
[edit] Fate
Cressy was sunk during the Action of 22 September 1914. At 7.20 am, less than an hour after the action commenced, Cressy was sunk by two torpedoes from the German U-boat U-9 while attempting to rescue survivors from her sister ships Aboukir and Hogue. She sank less than half an hour later, at 7.55 am.
[edit] References
- Colledge, J. J. and Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475.
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