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&sq=&lang=&file=File:Scout_cruiser_HMS_Pathfinder_-_IWM_Q_75425.jpg) HMS Pathfinder
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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | Pathfinder |
| Builder | Cammell Laird, Birkenhead |
| Laid down | 15 August 1903 |
| Launched | 16 July 1904 |
| Commissioned | 18 July 1905 |
| Fate | Sunk by U-21, 5 September 1914 |
| General characteristics (as built) | |
| Type | Scout cruiser |
| Displacement | 2,940 long tons (2,987 t) |
| Length | 370 ft (112.8 m) (p/p) |
| Beam | 38 ft 9 in (11.8 m) |
| Draught | 15 ft 2 in (4.6 m) (deep load) |
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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 Pathfinder was the lead ship of her class of two British scout cruisers, and was the first ship ever to be sunk by a self-propelled torpedo fired by submarine (the American Civil War sloop-of-war USS Housatonic had been sunk by a spar torpedo). She was built by Cammell Laird, Birkenhead, launched on 16 July 1904, and commissioned on 18 July 1905. She was originally to have been named HMS Fastnet, but was renamed prior to construction. During the beginning of World War I, the Pathfinder was sunk on 5 September 1914 by a German U-boat, the SM U-21.