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{{Infobox ship image
|Ship image= HMSPowerfulCirca1905.jpg
|Ship caption= Sailors line the deck of ''Powerful'' in [[Sydney Harbour]],
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{{Infobox ship career
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|Ship class={{sclass|Powerful|cruiser|0}} [[protected cruiser]]
|Ship displacement={{convert|14200|LT|t}} (normal)
|Ship length={{convert|538|ft|m|1|abbr=on}} ([[Length overall|o/a]])
|Ship beam={{convert|71|ft|m|1|abbr=on}}
|Ship draught={{convert|27|ft|m|1|abbr=on}}
|Ship power=*{{convert|25000|ihp|lk=in|abbr=on}}
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*12 × single [[QF 3 pounder Hotchkiss|3-pdr ({{cvt|47|mm|1}}) guns]]
*4 × [[British 18 inch torpedo|18 in (450 mm) torpedo tubes]]
|Ship armour=*[[Deck (ship)|Deck]]: {{convert|2.5|-|4|in|mm|0|abbr=on}}
*[[Barbette]]s: {{convert|6|in|mm|0|abbr=on}}
*[[Gun turret|Turrets]]: {{convert|6|in|mm|0|abbr=on}}
*[[Conning tower]]: {{convert|12|in|mm|abbr=on|0}}
*[[Casemate]]s: {{convert|2|-|6|in|mm|abbr=on|0}}
|Ship notes=
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==Construction and career==
''Powerful'' was [[laid down]] by [[Vickers Limited]] in their [[Barrow-in-Furness]] [[shipyard]] on 10 March 1894<ref>Friedman, p. 343</ref> and [[Ceremonial ship launching|launched]] on 24 July 1895 by the [[Louisa Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire]].<ref>Bronze medallion showing on the obverse a ship and the words 'H.M.S. "POWERFUL"'. The reverse bears the words 'H.M.S. POWERFUL LENGTH 500 FEET 2500 HORSE POWER LAUNCHED BY HER GRACE THE DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE AT BARROW IN FURNESS 24TH JULY 1895 THIS MEDAL IS MADE OF BRONZE FROM H.M.S. POWERFUL'. Medallion held by the Australian War Memorial - image reference ID Number: REL/09940</ref> The ship was [[Ship commissioning|commissioned]] on 8 June 1897 with [[Captain (Royal Navy)|Captain]] the Hon. [[Hedworth Meux|Hedworth Lambton]] in command, for service on the China Station. Her departure was delayed so that she could participate in the [[Fleet review (Commonwealth realms)#Queen Victoria|fleet review]] commemorating [[Queen Victoria#Diamond Jubilee|Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee]] on 26 June and the annual fleet manoeuvres in July. During a full-power run between [[Weihaiwei under British rule|Wei Hai Wai]],
Ordered home in 1899, ''Powerful'' was diverted from the shorter route through the [[Suez Canal]] to round the southern tip of Africa in light of rising tensions between the British and the [[Boers]] in [[South Africa]]. The ship departed [[Hong Kong]], China, on 17 September and arrived at [[Naval Base Simon's Town|Simonstown]] on 13 October, two days after the [[Second Boer War]] began; Lambton having picked up a half-[[battalion]] of the [[King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry]] from the island of [[Mauritius]] on his own initiative. Her [[sister ship]], {{HMS|Terrible|1895|2}}, commanded by Captain [[Percy Scott]], arrived the following day and Scott improvised [[Gun carriage|field carriages]] for a pair of 4.7-inch (120 mm) and a pair of ''Terrible''{{'}}s 12-pounder guns. After a request from [[Lieutenant General]] [[George White (British Army officer)|George White]], commander of the [[Siege of Ladysmith|besieged forces at Ladysmith]] for more long-range artillery, ''Powerful'' ferried all four guns to [[Durban]], reaching it on 29 November. Lambton acquired another pair of 12-pounders and led a [[naval brigade]] that reached Ladysmith on the last two trains to make it through. After the [[Relief of Ladysmith]] at the end of February, the brigade departed the town on 7 March and arrived at Simontown on the 12th. ''Powerful'' left Simonstown three days later and arrived at [[Portsmouth]] on 11 April.<ref>Burt, pp. 12–13</ref>
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===Later career===
''Powerful'' [[paid off]] on 8 June 1900 at [[Portsmouth Dockyard]] and later began a long refit in 1902–1903<ref name=b13>Burt, p. 13</ref> During this refit, the RN added four six-inch guns in casemates amidships, although no additional ammunition could be accommodated in the ship.<ref>Friedman, p. 234</ref> The ship was briefly commissioned in August 1903 to participate in the annual fleet manoeuvres and was assigned to the reserve on 1 March 1905. In August Captain [[Lionel Halsey]] took command of ''Powerful'',<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27922|page=4157|date=15 June 1906|}} ''Information, dated 12 April 1906, has been received from Captain L. Halsey, His Majesty's ship Powerful, that ... ''</ref><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27950|page=6326|date=18 September 1906}} ''Information, dated 26 July 1906, has been received from Captain L. Halsey, His Majesty's ship Powerful, that ... ''</ref>
as [[flag captain]] to [[Wilmot Fawkes|Sir Wilmot Fawkes]] as [[Commander-in-Chief]] [[Australia Station]]. At the time ''Powerful'' was commissioning as flagship on the Australia Station.<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.navyhistory.org.au/admiral-sir-lionel-halsey-gcmg-gcvo-kcie-cb-dljp-1872-1949/|title = Admiral Sir Lionel Halsey, GCMG, GCVO, KCIE, CB, DLJP 1872–1949
At the beginning of December 1905, ''Powerful'' was at [[Fremantle, Western Australia|Fremantle]] in [[Western Australia]].<ref>{{cite web | url = http://innopac.slwa.wa.gov.au/record=b1770389 | title = HMS Powerful at Fremantle, 1 December 1905 [picture] | publisher = State Library of Western Australia | access-date = 19 March 2008}}</ref> On 10 October 1907 the ship took aboard a new crew in [[Colombo]], [[Ceylon]].<ref name=b13/> On 3 February 1908 the first [[trans-Tasman]] [[radio transmission]] was made via ''Powerful'' which was in the [[Tasman Sea]].<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.caslon.com.au/austelecomsprofile1.htm | title = Australasian telecommunications: beginnings | publisher = Caslon Analytics | year = 2005 | access-date = 18 March 2008 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080327003112/http://www.caslon.com.au/austelecomsprofile1.htm | archive-date = 27 March 2008}}</ref> A ''[[Sydney Morning Herald]]'' journalist, [[Charles Bean]], joined the ship in August 1908 as a special correspondent to report the visit of sixteen American warships – the [[Great White Fleet]]. Bean wrote a book, ''With the Flagship in the South'' (London, 1909), based on his reports and had it published at his own expense.<ref>{{Australian Dictionary of Biography |last= Inglis |first= K.S. |authorlink= Ken Inglis |year= 1979 |id= A070225b |title= Bean, Charles Edwin Woodrow (1879–1968) |access-date= 19 March 2008}}</ref> ''Powerful'' took aboard a new crew in Colombo on 12 January 1910. In 1911 ''Powerful'' visited [[Auckland]], [[New Zealand]] to inspect the facilities and Captain [[Edward Francis Bruen|Edward Bruen]] recommended the setting up of a naval stores facility.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.rnzncomms.net.nz/navy/documents/history/navalrepairfacilities.html | title = DEVELOPMENT OF NAVAL REPAIR FACILITIES AT AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND 1841–1962 From a Lecture by J.A. Bell, AMRINA Deputy Constructive Manager HMNZ Dockyard Devonport | last = Bell | first = J. A. | year = 1962 | access-date = 19 March 2008 | publisher = RNZN Communicators' Association | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070927201129/http://www.rnzncomms.net.nz/navy/documents/history/navalrepairfacilities.html | archive-date = 27 September 2007}}</ref>
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The ship was ordered home in January 1912 and loaded the body of [[Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife]] at [[Port Said]], [[Egypt]], on 9 March en route.<ref name=b13/> On April 10th, the ship was
==Notes==
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==References==
* {{cite journal |last1=Burt|first1=Ray|title=The Powerful Class Cruisers of the Royal Navy, Part I|journal=Warship |issue=October |date=1988|volume=48|location=London|publisher=Conway Maritime Press |pages=5–15 |issn=0142-6222}}
* {{cite book|last=Friedman|first=Norman|title=British Cruisers of the Victorian Era|year=2012|publisher=Seaforth|location=Barnsley, South Yorkshire, UK|isbn=978-1-59114-068-9}}
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*[http://www.dreadnoughtproject.org/tfs/index.php/H.M.S._Powerful_(1895) HMS ''Powerful'' on the Dreadnought Project]
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