HMS Sutlej (1899)

Sutlej at anchor
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Sutlej
Namesake	Two battles on the Sutlej River during the First Anglo-Sikh War
Builder	John Brown & Company, Clydeside
Laid down	15 August 1898
Launched	18 November 1899
Commissioned	6 May 1902
Renamed	Crescent, January 1918 Sutlej, 1919
Reclassified	Accommodation ship, 1917 Depot ship, January 1918
Fate	Sold 9 May 1921, broken up, 1924
General characteristics
Class and type	Cressy-class armoured cruiser
Displacement	12,000 long tons (12,000 t) (normal)
Length	472 ft (143.9 m) (o/a)
Beam	69 ft 6 in (21.2 m)
Draught	26 ft 9 in (8.2 m) (maximum)
Installed power	21,000 ihp (16,000 kW) 30 Belleville boilers
Propulsion	2 × shafts 2 × 4-cylinder triple-expansion steam engines
Speed	21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph)
Complement	725–760
Armament	2 × single BL 9.2-inch Mk X guns 12 × single BL 6-inch Mk VII guns 12 × single QF 12 pdr 12 cwt guns[Note 1] 3 × 3-pounder (47 mm) Hotchkiss guns 2 × single submerged 18-inch torpedo tubes
Armour	Belt: 2–6 in (51–152 mm) Decks: 1–3 in (25–76 mm) Barbettes: 6 in (152 mm) Turrets: 6 in (150 mm) Conning tower: 12 in (305 mm) Bulkheads: 5 in (127 mm)

HMS Sutlej was a Cressy-class armoured cruiser built for the Royal Navy around 1900. Upon completion she was assigned to the China Station. In 1906 she became a training ship for the North America and West Indies Station before returning home and being assigned as the flagship of the reserve Third Fleet in 1909. Relieved as flagship in 1910, she remained in reserve until the beginning of World War I in August 1914.

She was spent most of the war on convoy escort duties before becoming an accommodation ship in 1917 and then a depot ship in 1918. Sutlej was sold for scrap in 1921, but was not broken up until 1924.
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