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HMS ''Terrible'' was the second and last of the
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s built for the
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(RN) in the 1890s. She served on the
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and provided landing parties and guns which participated in the
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and
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in the
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in
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. A few months later she did much the same thing to help suppress the
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in China. During this time, her
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was
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, who trained his crew to a high standard in gunnery and had his training methods adopted by the entire Royal Navy. Upon ''Terrible''s return home in 1902, she was refitted for two years and was then placed in
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, sporadically being activated to ferry replacements to
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, escort a royal tour to
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or participate in fleet manoeuvres. The ship served as an
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from 1909 to 1913. In July 1914, the month before
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erupted, she was offered for sale. Thus, the offer was withdrawn, and she subsequently made one voyage as a
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in 1915 before becoming a
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. ''Terrible'' was assigned as a
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in 1918 before being hulked and converted to suit the role two years later. The ship was sold for
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in July 1932 and demolished several months later.


Design and description

The ''Powerful''-class cruiser was designed to counter the Russian
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which had been designed as a long-range
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. This required long range and high speed to catch the Russian ship. The ships displaced at normal load. They had an
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of , a
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of and a draught of . The ships were powered by a pair of four-cylinder
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s, each driving one
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, using steam provided by 48
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s.Roberts, p. 67 The engines were designed to produce a total of using forced draughtFriedman, p. 335 and gave a maximum speed of . ''Terrible'' reached a maximum speed of from during her
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s. She carried enough coal to give her a range of at and her complement consisted of 894 officers and ratings. The main armament of the ''Powerful''-class cruisers consisted of two Mk VIII guns in single
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s, one each fore and aft of the
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. Her secondary armament of a dozen Mk I or II guns was arranged in
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s amidships. The end casemates were the first two-storey (guns on the main and upper decks) casemates in the RN. For defence against
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s, sixteen 12-pounder 12-cwt"Cwt" is the abbreviation for
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, 12 cwt referring to the weight of the gun.
guns and a dozen 3-pounder ()
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s were fitted. Two additional 12-pounder 8-cwt guns could be dismounted for service ashore. The ships also mounted four submerged 18-inch (450 mm)
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s, a pair on each broadside.Burt, pp. 8, 13 With the exception of the
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s, all of the protective plating of the cruisers was
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. The curved protective deck ranged in thickness from and the
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was protected by . The armour of the gun turrets, their barbettes and the casemates was 6 inches thick. The casemates had backs.


Construction and career

''Terrible'' was
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by J. & G. Thomson in their
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on 21 February 1894 and launched on 27 May 1895. The ship arrived at H. M. Dockyard, Portsmouth on 4 June to be
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. She was temporarily commissioned in July 1897 to participate in the fleet review commemorating
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. ''Terrible'' was commissioned for active service on 24 March 1898. In May, she ferried the First Lord, George Goschen, and the
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,
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, to
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and
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. While transporting relief crews for the Mediterranean Fleet to Malta in December, the ship set a record, taking 121 hours to cover despite heavy weather in the
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.Burt, p. 13 During the
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to Gibraltar leg she averaged from and from Gibraltar to Malta.Jane, p. 109 On 13 March 1899, a boiler explosion while underway en route to England killed one stoker and injured three others, who were discharged to hospital on arrival. The inquest identified that the use of salt water caused extensive corrosion and blockages in the boiler tubes, seven of which consequently burst due to overheating.


Boer War and Boxer Rebellion

Captain Percy Scott assumed command on 18 September 1899, with orders to take the ship for service on the
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. Expecting hostilities to break out in South Africa, Scott persuaded the
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to allow him to make passage via the
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rather than the originally planned
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route. ''Terrible'' arrived at Simonstown on 14 October to find war imminent. With no threat from the sea, Scott set about determining how he might adapt the navy's guns by mounting them on wheels for use on land as to support the army which lacked any long-range artillery and found that its ordinary guns were out-ranged by the Boer artillery. The mountings looked somewhat amateurish, causing the authorities to regard them with considerable suspicion. However, they proved very effective and the role of two of his 4.7-inch (120 mm) guns at the
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received quite a bit of publicity. ''Terrible'' arrived at
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on 6 November and Scott was appointed Military Commandant there the following day. A naval brigade from the ''Terrible'' accompanied the Ladysmith relief force, including two 4.7-inch and eighteen 12-pounder guns, and participated in the battles of Colenso (December 1899) and Spion Kop (January 1900) and the relief of Ladysmith on 28 February. Scott also adapted a small
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as a signal light mounted on a
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to communicate with the besieged force in Ladysmith. After the relief of Ladysmith, ''Terrible''s crew rejoined her and she departed Durban on 27 March 1900 en route to China.Burt, p. 14 She arrived at Hong Kong on 8 May and Scott mounted four 12-pounders on field carriages later that month, once he became aware that ''Terrible'' and her crew would be ordered north to assist British forces against the anti-foreigner movement known as the Boxers. Orders arrived on 15 June that Terrible was to load three
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of the
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and sail to Taku where she arrived on the 21st. A single 12-pounder gun accompanied the relief force that reached the foreign quarter of
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on 24 June. The other three guns accompanied the expedition that defeated the Chinese forces in the city of Tianjin in mid-July. All four guns were part of the second relief expedition to Beijing in August and her crewmen returned to the ship on 7 September. After hostilities ceased Scott focused to working up his ship's gunnery capabilities, devising various training aids, and her crew shot a very respectable score of 78.8% in the 1900 prize firing. ''Terrible'' arrived in Hong Kong on 17 December after a typhoon had struck the city, and Scott volunteered to salvage the
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''Canton River''. Work began the following month and Scott succeeded two months later. In the Navy's 1901 prize firing ''Terrible'' achieved a score of 80%, the best of any ship in the Navy. In early 1902 ''Terrible'' spent several months at
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, providing relief and condensed water for the dockyard, amid an outbreak of
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in the city leading to a water famine. In July 1902 Scott received orders to return with his ship to Britain, and after visits to
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and
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, passed via the Suez Canal to the
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where she visited Malta and Gibraltar before she returned to Portsmouth on 19 September. On her return, 700 of her officers and men were hosted to a public dinner in Portsmouth, before she was
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on 24 October to begin a long refit at Messrs. John Brown and Co.′s works at Clydebank. During this refit, the RN added four 6-inch guns in casemates amidships, although no additional ammunition could be accommodated in the ship.


Later career

''Terrible'' recommissioned on 24 June 1904 for special service and took out relief crews to the China Station, returning in December. She was paid off again on the 22nd, but was assigned to the reserve on 3 January 1905. The ship was activated in August to escort the battleship carrying the Prince and
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—the future
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and Queen Mary—during their tour of India and returned home in early 1906. ''Terrible'' served as the temporary
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of the
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during the annual manoeuvres in June and July and returned to reserve afterwards. She was reactivated on 7 November to ferry relief crews to China, losing a propeller on the return trip, and finished the voyage on one engine. The ship was refitted from 4 May 1908 to 1 April 1909 and was assigned to the Fourth Division of the
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upon its completion. ''Terrible'' was primarily used as an accommodation ship from 20 July until she was transferred to
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on 6 December 1913. The ship was listed for disposal in July 1914, but this was cancelled when the First World War began shortly afterwards. ''Terrible'' was recommissioned in September 1915 to transport troops to the
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and her 9.2-inch guns were removed. She reached
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on 2 October and became a depot ship at Portsmouth upon her return. The ship was assigned as tender to
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in January 1918 and then to
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a year later. In September 1919 ''Terrible'' was hulked, disarmed and had most of her propulsion machinery removed to convert her into a training ship for engineering apprentices. When the conversion was completed in August 1920, she was renamed ''Fisgard III''. When ''Fisgard'' moved to accommodations ashore, the ship was listed for sale in January 1932 and was purchased in July by
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. She was towed to
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in September and broken up. Parts of her teak would later be made into souvenirs and sold off.


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External links


HMS ''Terrible'' on the Dreadnought Project
{{DEFAULTSORT:Terrible (1895) Powerful-class cruisers Ships built on the River Clyde 1895 ships World War I cruisers of the United Kingdom Second Boer War