| Name: | ADVENTURE |
| Type: | Cruiser |
| Keel: | 09/01/1904 |
| Launched: | 08/09/1904 |
| Completed: | 06/11/1905 |
| Builder: | Armstrong, Whitworth & Co |
| Yard: | Elswick |
| Yard Number: | 741 |
| Dimensions: | 2910disp, 374.0 x 38.25 x 13.3(draft)ft |
| Engines: | 2 x T3cyl (22, 34 & 53 x 25.5ins), 16000ihp |
| Engines by: | R & W Hawthorn Leslie, Newcastle |
| Propulsion: | 2 x Screw, 25.0knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Armament: | 10 x 1 x 12pdr QF, 8 x 1 x 3pdr QF guns; 2 x 18.0ins torpedoes |
| (later: 2 x 1 x 6ins, 4 x 1 x 4ins, 1 x 3ins guns); no torpedoes | |
| History: | |
| 06/11/1905 | British Royal Navy |
| 03/03/1920 | Broken up |
| Comments: | Member of the Adventure Class |
| Designed as a light cruiser to work with flotillas of destroyers | |
| When destroyers became too fast, was relegated to 3rd class cruiser | |
| 03/03/1920: Sold for breaking up by TW Ward at Morecambe | |
| 09/04/1920: Arrived at Morecambe |
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