Name HMS Mersey Commissioned June 1887 Launched 31 March 1885 Weight 4,115 tons Draft 5.94 m | Laid down 9 July 1883 Construction started 9 July 1883 Length 96 m Displacement 3.674 million kg | |
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Builder Chatham DockyardMachinery by Humphrys, Tennant & Co. Fate Sold for scrapping on 4 April 1905 Class and type Mersey-class second-class cruiser | ||
HMS Mersey was a Mersey-class second class protected cruiser. They were relatively modern, in that they were the first cruisers that had discarded their sailing rigs in the design, that was synonymous with the old wooden warships, and were now solely steam powered warships. She was built at Chatham Dockyard and launched on 31 March 1885, but had a relatively mundane career and was sold for breaking in 1905.
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