HMS Katoomba

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Pandora and HMAS Katoomba.
HMS Katoomba in Hobart, Tasmania in 1903.
History
United Kingdom
NamePandora
Namesake
BuilderArmstrong Whitworth, Elswick, Tyne and Wear
Laid down15 August 1888
Launched27 August 1889
Completed1 December 1890
RenamedKatoomba
FateSold for scrap, 10 July 1906
General characteristics
Class and typePearl-class cruiser
Displacement2,575 tons
Length
  • 278 ft (84.7 m) (oa)
  • 265 ft (80.8 m) (pp)[1]
Beam41 ft (12 m)[1]
Draught15 ft 6 in (4.7 m)
Installed power
Propulsion2 × screws; 2 × 3-cylinder triple-expansion steam engines[1]
Speed19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph)
Complement210
Armament
Armour

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.[2] 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.[3] She left the Australia Station on 16 January 1906. She was sold for £8500 on 10 July 1906 and broken up at Morecambe.[2]

A Pearl-class cruiser from Brassey's Naval Annual, 1897
  1. ^ a b c Winfield, p. 276
  2. ^ a b Bastock 1988, p. 101.
  3. ^ "The Katoomba-Yatala Collision, The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA), Thursday 31 December 1891, p.6". Advertiser. 31 December 1891. Retrieved 4 October 2010.