HMS Hampshire
HMS Hampshire. 05/06/1916
Displacement: 10,850 grt.
Length: 137.2 m. Beam: 20.9 m. Draught: 7.3 m.
Propulsion: 2 x 4 cyl. triple expansion engines, - Yarrow boilers, dual shaft, 2 screws
Complement: officers and men.
Crew Lost:
Armament: 4 x 7.5"/190.5 mm guns, 6 x 6"/152.4 mm guns, 18 x 3 pdr. guns, 2 x 18"/450 mm T.T.
Displacement: 10,850 grt.
Length: 137.2 m. Beam: 20.9 m. Draught: 7.3 m.
Propulsion: 2 x 4 cyl. triple expansion engines, - Yarrow boilers, dual shaft, 2 screws
Complement: officers and men.
Crew Lost:
Armament: 4 x 7.5"/190.5 mm guns, 6 x 6"/152.4 mm guns, 18 x 3 pdr. guns, 2 x 18"/450 mm T.T.
In 2016 there were two remarkable initiatives to remember HMS Hampshire 100. The first was a group of historians who painstakingly went over the records to establish the actual number of those lost and create a memorial dedicated to them at the Kitchener Memorial Marwick ............
Link to crew list and memorial page for HMS Hampshire. http://hmshampshire.org/
The second was a diving survey of the actual wreck site 100 years after HMS Hampshire sank. The full report can be downloaded below
Link to HMS Hampshire 100 report. HERE
The Kitchener Memorial, Marwick Head.
Orkney Herald, and Weekly Advertiser and Gazette for the Orkney & Zetland Islands - Wednesday 31 January 1917
