| Name: | HAMPSHIRE |
| Type: | Cruiser |
| Keel: | 01/09/1902 |
| Launched: | 24/09/1903 |
| Completed: | 15/07/1905 |
| Builder: | Armstrong, Whitworth & Co |
| Yard: | Elswick |
| Yard Number: | 734 |
| Dimensions: | 10850disp, 450.0 x 68.3 x 24.75(draft)ft |
| Engines: | 2 x VT4cyl (41.5, 65.5 & 73.5, 73.5 x 42ins), 21000ihp |
| Engines by: | R & W Hawthorn Leslie,Newcastle |
| Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 23.0knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Armament: | 4 x 1 x 7.5ins, 6 x 1 x 6ins QF,2 x 1 x 12pdr, 20 x 1 x 3pdr guns, 2 x 18.0ins torpedoes |
| History: | |
| 15/07/1905 | British Royal Navy |
| 05/06/1916 | Sank |
| Comments: | Member of the Devonshire Class |
| Cost £833,817 to build | |
| 05/06/1916: Sunk by a mine laid by a German U-Boat off the Orkney Islands |
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