- Design
- Career
- Notes
- Footnotes
- Bibliography
- External links
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}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption= | Sentinel|cruiser|0}} scout cruiser | Ship displacement=2,880 tons | Ship tons burthen= | 360|ft|m|abbr=on}} (p/p)- {{convert|381|ft|m|abbr=on}} (o/a)
| 40|ft|m|abbr=on}} | 14|ft|m|abbr=on}} | Ship draft= | Ship propulsion=*Two shaft TE engines | 25|kn|km/h|lk=in}} | Ship range=Carried 160 tons coal (410 tons max) | Ship endurance= | Ship test depth= | Ship boats= | Ship capacity= | Ship complement=298 | Ship time to activate= | Ship sensors= | Ship EW= | Ship armament=*As built- 10 × 12-pounder (76-mm) quick firing guns
- 8 × 3-pounder (47-mm) quick firing guns
- 2 × 18-inch (460-mm) torpedo tubes
- As modified 1911/12
- 9 × QF 4-inch (101.6-mm) Mk IV guns
- 6 × 6-pounder (57-mm) guns
- 2 × {{convert|18|in|mm|abbr=on}} torpedo tubes
| 3|in|mm|abbr=on}}- deck: {{convert|1.5|-|.625|in|mm|abbr=on}}
}} | HMS Sentinel was one of two {{sclass-|Sentinel|cruiser|0}} scout cruisers which served with the Royal Navy. She was built by Vickers Limited at Barrow, laid down in June 1903, launched on 19 April 1904 and completed in April 1905 at a cost of about £282,000. She was originally to be named HMS Inchkeith, but was renamed in 1903, prior to launching. DesignShe sported a partial turtle deck forward and shorter funnels than later ships of this type. She was designed to act as a leader of a destroyer flotilla but like other ships of this type was soon proved to be too slow for the role. As turbine engined destroyers came into service, they were rendered obsolete. She was armed with ten 12-pounder (76-mm) quick firing guns, eight 3-pounder (47-mm) quick firing guns and two 18-inch (460-mm) torpedo tubes. In 1911-12 she was rearmed with nine QF 4-inch (101.6-mm) Mk IV guns. CareerSentinel began her career with the 3rd Cruiser Squadron in the Mediterranean, before being recalled to join the Channel Fleet, and then the Home Fleet from 1907. In 1910 she was leader of the 5th Destroyer Flotilla at Chatham, then in 1913 moved to lead the 9th Destroyer Flotilla at Portsmouth. She began the First World War in service with the 8th Destroyer Flotilla in the Firth of Forth but, proving too sluggish for the role, in 1915 was temporarily attached with 6th Light Cruiser Squadron in the Humber. Here she was used to guard against Zeppelin raids. In 1916 she was stationed in the Mediterranean and then the Aegean in 1918. On 12 November 1918 Sentinel was part of the squadron sent through the Dardanelles to undertake duties in the Black Sea, where Britain was becoming involved in the Russian Civil War. After the war Sentinel served as Mechanic’s training ship at Chatham between 1920 and 1922 before being sold for scrap on 18 January 1923. She arrived at Sunderland for breaking up on 20 June 1923 after having suffered a stranding on the way. NotesFootnotes{{reflist|30em}} Bibliography - {{cite book|last=Corbett|first=Julian|authorlink=Julian Corbett|title=Naval Operations to the Battle of the Falklands|edition=2nd, reprint of the 1938|series=History of the Great War: Based on Official Documents|volume=I|publisher=Imperial War Museum and Battery Press|location=London and Nashville, Tennessee|isbn=0-89839-256-X}}
- {{cite book|last=Friedman|first=Norman|title=British Destroyers From Earliest Days to the Second World War|publisher=Naval Institute Press|location=Annapolis, Maryland|year=2009|isbn=978-1-59114-081-8}}
- {{cite book|last=Friedman|first=Norman|title=Naval Weapons of World War One|publisher=Seaforth|location=Barnsley, South Yorkshire, UK|year=2011|isbn=978-1-84832-100-7}}
- {{cite book |editor1-last=Gardiner|editor1-first=Robert|editor2-last=Gray|editor2-first=Randal|title=Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships: 1906–1921|year=1984|location=Annapolis, Maryland|publisher=Naval Institute Press|isbn=0-85177-245-5|lastauthoramp=y}}
External links- Sentinel class in World War I
- History of the Sentinel class
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