HMS Cressy
Career
Class and type:	Cressy-class armoured cruiser
Name:	HMS Cressy
Builder:	Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Govan
Laid down:	October 1898
Launched:	December 4, 1899
Fate:	Sunk by U-9 on September 22, 1914
General characteristics
Tons burthen:	12,000 tons
Length:	472 ft (144 m)
Beam:	69. Service Until 1908 the ships served in Home waters, the Mediterranean and the Far East. The armored cruiser, or armoured cruiser (see spelling differences) is a type of Cruiser, a naval warship. The Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Limited was a British shipbuilding company in the Govan area on the Clyde in Scotland Govan ( Scottish Gaelic: Baile a' Ghobhainn) is a district and former Burgh in the southwestern part of the City of Glasgow, October events and holidays Children's Book Week ( England) - First Week of October National Day ( China People's Republic Year 1898 ( MDCCCXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common "December 4th" redirects here For the song by Jay-Z, see December 4th (song. Year 1899 ( MDCCCXCIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 66 - Emperor Nero creates the Legion I Italica. 1236 - The Lithuanians Year 1914 ( MCMXIV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year 5 ft (21. 2 m)
Propulsion:	triple expansion engines twin screws
Speed:	21 knots (39 km/h)
Armament:	2 × 9. 2 inch guns 12 × 6 inch guns 13 × 12 pdr guns

HMS Cressy was a Cressy-class armoured cruiser in the Royal Navy. Service Until 1908 the ships served in Home waters, the Mediterranean and the Far East. The armored cruiser, or armoured cruiser (see spelling differences) is a type of Cruiser, a naval warship. The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the oldest of the British armed services (and is therefore known as the Senior Service) Cressy was sunk by the German U-boat U-9 in September 1914.

Shortly after the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914, Aboukir and her sister ships Bacchante, Euryalus, Hogue and Cressy were assigned to patrol the Broad Fourteens of the North Sea, in support of a force of destroyers and submarines based at Harwich which blocked the Eastern end of the English Channel from German warships attempting to attack the supply route between England and France. World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All The Broad Fourteens is an area of the southern North Sea that is fairly consistently fourteen Fathoms (26 m deep (thus on a nautical chart with depths The North Sea is a marginal, Epeiric sea of the Atlantic Ocean on the European Continental shelf. Because the smaller vessels were unable to operate in rough seas, the cruisers often formed the front line. ^[1] As the cruisers were obsolescent, this was referred to as the "Live Bait Squadron".

At around 6 am on 22 September the three cruisers were steaming at 10 knots (19 km/h) in line ahead and they were spotted by the U-9, commanded by Lt. Events 66 - Emperor Nero creates the Legion I Italica. 1236 - The Lithuanians Otto Weddigen. Otto Eduard Weddigen ( September 15, 1882 – March 18, 1915) was a German U-boat Commander during World War I Although they were not zigzagging, all of the ships had lookouts posted to search for periscopes and one gun on each side of each ship was manned.

Weddigen ordered his submarine to submerge and closed the range to the unsuspecting British ships. At close range, he fired a single torpedo at the Aboukir. The modern torpedo (historically called an automotive automobile locomotive or fish torpedo is a self-propelled explosive Projectile weapon launched above or below The torpedo broke the back of the Aboukir and she sank within 20 minutes with the loss of 527 men.

The captains of the Cressy and Hogue thought the Aboukir had struck a floating mine and came forward to assist her. A naval mine is a self-contained Explosive device placed in water to destroy Ships or Submarines Unlike Depth charges mines are deposited They stood by and began to pick up survivors. At this point, Weddigen fired two torpedoes into the Hogue, mortally wounding that ship. As the Hogue sank, the captain of the Cressy realised that the squadron was being attacked by a submarine, and tried to flee. However, Weddigen fired two more torpedoes into the Cressy, and sank her as well.

References

1. ^ Robert K. Massie (2004). Castles of Steel. Jonathan Cape, 128-131. ISBN 0-224-04092-8.  

• Colledge, J. J. and Warlow, Ben (2006). James Joseph Colledge (born 1908 was a noted naval Historian, author of Ships of the Royal Navy, the standard work on the fighting ships of the British Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy, Rev. For a list of ships of the Royal Navy, see List of Royal Navy ships. ed. , London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475. The OCLC Online Computer Library Center is according to its website a "nonprofit membership computer library service and research organization dedicated to the public purpose  

See also

• More Ships Built in Govan