For other ships with the same name, see HMS Phoenix.
HMS Tauranga, Tasmania in 1902.
History
United Kingdom
Name
HMS Phoenix
Builder
J & G Thomson, Glasgow
Launched
28 October 1889
Renamed
Tauranga, 1890
Fate
Sold in July 1906 for breaking up.
General characteristics
Class and type
Pearl-class cruiser
Displacement
2,575 tons
Length
278 ft (85 m) oa
256 ft (78 m) pp[1]
Beam
41 ft (12 m)[1]
Draught
15 ft 6 in (4.72 m)
Installed power
7,500 ihp (5,600 kW) on forced draught
Propulsion
2 × 3-cylinder triple-expansion steam engines
4 × double-ended cylindrical boilers
2 screws[1]
Speed
19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph)
Complement
217
Armament
8 × QF 4.7 inch (120 mm) guns
8 × 3-pounder guns
4 × machine guns
2 × 14-inch (356 mm) torpedo tubes
Armour
Deck: 1–2 in (25–51 mm)
Gunshields: 2 in (51 mm)
Conning tower: 3 in (76 mm)
HMS Tauranga was a Pearl-class cruiser of the Royal Navy. The vessel was originally named Phoenix and built by J & G Thomson, Glasgow. She was launched on 28 October 1889.[2] Renamed on 2 April 1890, as Tauranga as part of the Auxiliary Squadron of the Australia Station. She arrived in Sydney with the squadron on 5 September 1891. During the Samoan civil unrest in 1899, she took part in operations with HMS Porpoise and HMS Royalist.[2] Spending between 1901 and 1903 in reserve at Sydney before being assigned to the New Zealand division of the Australia Station. She left the Australia Station on 14 December 1904. She was sold for £8500 in July 1906 to Thomas Ward for breaking up.[2]
A Pearl-class cruiser from Brassey's Naval Annual, 1897Memorial to Payne, First Lieutenant of H.M.S. Tauranga, in Chester Cathedral.
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around Paihia on Horotutu Beach playing cricket. In 1835, Charles Darwin and HMS Beagle called into the Bay of Islands on its epic circumnavigation of the...
of the Waikato and was also present at the Battle of Gate Pā during the Tauranga Campaign. He later took part in the bombardment of Alexandria during the...
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