&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:HMS_Shannon_(1906).jpg) Shannon with short funnels (1908–09)
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| History | |
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| Name | Shannon |
| Builder | Chatham Dockyard |
| Laid down | 2 January 1905 |
| Launched | 20 September 1906 |
| Completed | November 1907 (for trials) |
| Commissioned | 19 March 1908 |
| Decommissioned | 2 May 1919 |
| Fate | Sold for scrap, 12 December 1922 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Minotaur-class armoured cruiser |
| Displacement | 14,600 long tons (14,800 t) |
| Length | 519 ft (158.2 m) (overall) |
| Beam | 75.5 ft (23.0 m) |
| Draught | 26 ft (7.9 m) (mean) |
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| Propulsion | 2 shafts; 2 triple-expansion steam engines |
| Speed | 22 knots (41 km/h; 25 mph) |
| Range | 8,150 nmi (15,090 km; 9,380 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement | 842 (1912) |
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HMS Shannon was a Minotaur-class armoured cruiser built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1900s. Before the First World War, she served with the Home Fleet, generally as the flagship of a cruiser squadron. The ship remained with the Grand Fleet, as the Home Fleet was renamed when the war began, for the entire war, but only participated in a single battle, the Battle of Jutland in May 1916. Shannon spent most of the war unsuccessfully patrolling the North Sea for German warships and commerce raiders. She was paid off in 1919 and sold for scrap in 1922.
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