HMS Hampshire
HMS Hampshire.
Displacement: 10,850 grt.
Length: 137.2 m. Beam: 20.9 m. Draught: 7.3 m.
Propulsion: 2 x 4 cyl. triple expansion engines, 23 Yarrow boilers, dual shaft, 2 screws
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Complement: officers and men.
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, 23 Yarrow boilers, dual shaft, 2 screws
.
Complement: officers and men.
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
Some crew images are displayed below; photographs that have been discovered during research.
