HMS Pomone (1897)

Pomone
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Pomone
Namesake	Pomona
Builder	Sheerness Dockyard, Kent
Laid down	21 December 1896
Launched	25 November 1897
Completed	May 1899
Decommissioned	October 1904
Reclassified	hulked as training ship, 5 Jan 1910
Fate	Sold for scrap, 25 October 1922
General characteristics
Class and type	Pelorus-class cruiser
Displacement	2,135 long tons (2,169 t)
Length	313 ft 6 in (95.6 m) o/a 300 ft (91.4 m) p/p
Beam	36 ft 6 in (11.1 m)
Draught	16 ft (4.9 m)
Installed power	7,000 ihp (5,200 kW)
Propulsion	2 shafts, 2 vertical triple expansion steam engines 16 Blechynden water-tube boilers
Speed	20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Range	7,000 nautical miles (13,000 km; 8,100 mi)
Complement	224
Armament	8 × QF 4-inch (102 mm) guns 8 × QF 3-pounder guns 3 × machine guns 2 × 18-inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes
Armour	Deck: 1+1⁄2–2 in (38–51 mm) deck Gunshields: 1⁄4 in (6.4 mm) Conning tower: 3 in (76 mm)

HMS Pomone was a Pelorus-class protected cruiser built for the Royal Navy in the late 1890s. The ship's boilers were so troublesome that she was decommissioned in 1904 after only a single foreign deployment. She was hulked in 1910 and served as a stationary training ship until 1922 when she was sold for scrap.