&sq=Google&lang=en&file=File:Scout_cruiser_HMS_Forward_-_IWM_Q_75424.jpg) Scout cruiser HMS Forward, photograph by Ernest Hopkins of Southsea
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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | Forward |
| Builder | Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan |
| Laid down | 22 October 1903 |
| Launched | 27 August 1904 |
| Commissioned | 22 September 1905 |
| Fate | Sold for scrap, 27 July 1921 |
| General characteristics (as built) | |
| Class and type | Forward-class scout cruiser |
| Displacement | 2,850 long tons (2,896 t) |
| Length | 365 ft (111.3 m) (p/p) |
| Beam | 39 ft 2 in (11.9 m) |
| Draught | 14 ft 3 in (4.3 m) |
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| Propulsion | 2 Shafts, 2 triple-expansion steam engines |
| Speed | 25 knots (46 km/h; 29 mph) |
| Range | 3,400 nmi (6,300 km; 3,900 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement | 289 |
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HMS Forward was the name ship of her class of two scout cruisers built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. The ship was in reserve for most of the first decade of her existence. After the beginning of the First World War in August 1914, she was assigned to coastal defence duties on the East Coast of England. Forward was present when the Germans bombarded Hartlepool in mid-December 1914, but played no significant role in the battle. The ship was sent to the Mediterranean in mid-1915 and was then assigned to the Aegean Sea a year later, together with her sister ship, Foresight, and remained there until the end of the war. After returning home in 1919, she was sold for scrap in 1921.