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Launch of H.M.S. "Terrible", 1895. Creator: George Meisenbach.

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Launch of H.M.S. "Terrible", 1895. 'The first of the two large cruisers built from Sir William H. White's design was launched on May 27, at Messrs. J. and G. Thomson's yard, near Glasgow. The ceremony was very successful. H.M.S. Terrible is much greater than any previous vessel of her class. She is a first-class twin-screw protected cruiser, 500 ft. long between perpendiculars, and 538 ft. over all; 71ft. wide; with a draught of 27ft., and 14,200 tons' displacement'. HMS Terrible was the second and last of the Powerful-class protected cruisers built for the Royal Navy (RN) in the 1890s. She served on the China Station and provided landing parties and guns which participated in the Siege and Relief of Ladysmith in the Second Boer War in South Africa. A few months later she did much the same thing to help suppress the Boxer Rebellion in China. From "Illustrated London News", 1895.

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