Name HMS Edgar Beam 60 ft (18 m) Launched 24 November 1890 Weight 7,468 tons Builder HMNB Devonport | Laid down 3 June 1889 Construction started 3 June 1889 Length 118 m Displacement 6.668 million kg | |
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Fate Sold for breaking up 9 May 1921 Class and type Edgar-class protected cruiser Armament 2 × BL 9.2-inch (233.7 mm) Mk VI guns
10 × QF 6-inch (152.4 mm) guns
12 × 6pdr guns | ||
HMS Edgar was a first class cruiser of the Royal Navy, and lead ship of the Edgar class. She was built at Devonport and launched on 24 November 1890. She served in the First World War in the Gallipoli Campaign, along with her sisters Endymion, Grafton and Theseus.
Service history
Edgar was commissioned at Devonport by Captain E. J. Fleet on 20 February 1900, to take relief crews for the sloops Algerine and Phoenix and the survey vessel Waterwitch, which were recommissioned at Hong Kong for the China Station. A crew for the river service steamer HMS Robin, built at Hong Kong, was also included.
In April 1902 her boilers were re-tubed due to defects, and after taking part in the Coronation review in August 1902, she was commissioned to relieve Endymion serving on the China Station.
She was damaged in an attack by the Austro-Hungarian submarine SM U-29 on 4 April 1918 near position 35°06′N 14°24′E. Edgar was sold on 9 May 1921. She arrived at Morecambe on 24 April 1923 for breaking up.