Name Pandora Completed 1 December 1890 Construction started 15 August 1888 Weight 2,616 tons Draft 4.72 m | Laid down 15 August 1888 Renamed Katoomba Launched 27 August 1889 Displacement 2.336 million kg Builder Armstrong Whitworth | |
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Namesake Pandora
Katoomba, New South Wales Fate Sold for scrap, 10 July 1906 | ||
HMS Katoomba was a Pearl-class cruiser built for the Royal Navy, originally named HMS Pandora, built by Armstrong Whitworth, Elswick, Tyne and Wear and launched on 27 August 1889. Renamed on 2 April 1890, as Katoomba as the flagship of the Auxiliary Squadron of the Australia Station. She arrived in Sydney with the squadron on 5 September 1891. She was damaged in a collision with the tug Yatala in Port Adelaide on 29 December 1891. She left the Australia Station on 16 January 1906. She was sold for £8500 on 10 July 1906 and broken up at Morecambe.
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