Engineering:Pearl-class cruiser

HMS Tauranga in Tasmania circa. 1902
Class overview
Name:	Pearl
Operators:	Royal Navy Royal Australian Navy Royal New Zealand Navy
Preceded by:	Barham class
Succeeded by:	Apollo class
Built:	1888–1890
In commission:	1890 - 1947
Completed:	9
Retired:	9
General characteristics
Type:	Third-class cruiser
Displacement:	2,575 tons
Length:	278 ft (84.7 m) oa 256 ft (78.0 m) pp
Beam:	41 ft (12.5 m)
Draught:	15 ft 6 in (4.72 m)
Installed power:	7,500 ihp on forced draught
Propulsion:	2 × 3-cylinder triple-expansion steam engines 4 × double-ended cylindrical boilers 2 screws
Speed:	19 kn (35 km/h; 22 mph)
Complement:	217
Armament:	8 × QF 4.7 inch (120 mm) guns 8 × QF 3-pounder (47 mm) guns 4 × machine guns 2 × 14-inch (356 mm) torpedo tubes

The Pearl-class cruiser was a third-class protected cruiser designed by Sir William White for the Royal Navy. Nine ships were built to this design, five of which were paid for by Australia under the terms of the Imperial Defence Act of 1887 to serve in Australian waters.

Design

Pearl-class ships displaced 2,575 tons and were capable of 19 knots (35.2 km/h).

HMS Pallas at Quebec, Quebec in 1901

Right elevation, deck plan and hull section as depicted in Brassey's Naval Annual 1897

Ships

Name	Launched	Fate
Pallas	1890	Sold for scrap in 1906.
Pandora	1889	Renamed HMS Katoomba. Sold for scrap in 1906.
Pearl	1890	Sold for scrap in 1906.
Pelorus	1889	Renamed HMS Mildura. Sold for scrap in 1906.
Persian	1890	Renamed HMS Wallaroo and then HMS Wallington. Changed back to original in 1920 before being sold for scrap.
Philomel	1890	Transferred to New Zealand Navy in 1914. Sold on 17 January 1947. Scuttled 6 August 1949.
Phoebe	1890	Sold for scrap in 1906.
Phoenix	1889	Renamed HMS Tauranga. Sold for scrap in 1906.
Psyche	1889	Renamed HMS Ringarooma. Sold for scrap in 1906.

HMS Pearl

References

• Battleships-cruisers.co.uk: Pearl-class