- History
- Disposal
- References
- External links
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}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption= | Ship class=Astraea-class cruiser | Ship tonnage= | Ship displacement=4,360 tons loaded | Ship tons burthen= | Ship length=320 feet | Ship beam=49 ft 6 in | Ship height= | Ship draught=19 ft | Ship hold depth= | Ship ice class= | Ship sail plan= | Ship propulsion=*2 shaft, 3 cycle TE, 8 cylinder boilers- 7500 hp natural draught; 9500 hp forced draught
- Coal 1000 tons maximum load
| 18|kn|km/h|0}} natural draught- {{convert|19.5|kn|km/h|1}} forced draught
| Ship range=7,000 nautical miles | Ship endurance= | Ship boats= | Ship capacity= | Ship complement=44 | Ship crew= | Ship time to activate= | Ship troops= | 6|in|mm|adj=on|sigfig=4}} guns- 8 × QF 4.7 inch (120mm) guns
- 1 × 3 pounder (47 mm) quick firing gun
- 4 × 18-inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes
| Ship armour=*Deck 2 inch- Conning tower 3 inch
- Gunshields 4.5 inch
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}} | HMS Forte was an Astraea class cruiser of the Royal Navy launched on 9 December 1893.[2] She was constructed under the Naval Defence Act of 1889 along with several other Astraea class cruisers.[3] Forte was eventually decommissioned in 1913. HistoryHMS Forte served on the Cape and West African stations. Captain Robert Copland Sparkes was in command when she visited Sierra Leone and The Gambia in early January 1901.[4] In 1908, Forte delivered such a terrible result in a gunlayer's test that a Court of Inquiry was convened, leading to the determination that Captain John Green and his officers had failed to provide sufficient training, as they had not appreciated the difficulty of the test procedure. In 1910 the cruiser ran aground and Their Lordships expressed "severe displeasure [with Green] for failure to comply with King's Regulations for unseamanlike manner in which the ship was navigated."[5] Disposal In 1913 Forte was placed on the sale list and sold on 2 April 1914 for scrapping. She was the only ship of her class not to see service in the First World War. References 1. ^The Navy List, (March 1896), p.224
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3. ^Historyofwar.org
4. ^{{Cite newspaper The Times |articlename=Naval & Military intelligence|day_of_week=Friday |date=4 January 1901 |page_number=4 |issue=36343| }}
5. ^Green Service Record, The National Archives ADM 196/42
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