HMS Natal was a Warrior-class armoured cruiser built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. She escorted the royal yacht in 1911–1912 for the newly crowned King George V's trip to India to attend the Delhi Durbar.

HMS Natal was a ‘Warrior Class’ cruiser of 13550 tons. She was launched in 1905 and had an interesting history before the First World War. In 1914 she joined the Second Cruiser Squadron, which by 1915 was based in the Cromarty Firth, in the north of Scotland.

2018年8月26日 · HMS Natal was a Warrior class Cruiser of 13,550 tons with a complement of 704 officers and men. She was launched at Barrow-in-Furness on 30th September 1905 and had a distinguished peacetime career. This included accompanying King George V …

The band of the Royal Marines played, a film show ran and then tragedy as a series of explosions ripped through HMS Natal on the afternoon of 30 December 1915 in the Cromarty Firth. The ship sank within 5 minutes with the loss of 421 lives, some of them being the Captain’s invited guests including a local family and nurses from a nearby ...

2019年12月29日 · Distinguished by four funnels, HMS Natal was just over 500 feet in length and weighed 14,500 tons fully laden. Her powerful full steam engines gave her a top speed of 23 knots, making her one of the fastest cruisers afloat.

One of these ships was the cruiser HMS Natal. She was the first Royal Navy ship to carry this name, named after the province of Natal in South Africa, and officials of the province were present on 30th September when she was launched by the Duchess of Devonshire.

Natal was commissioned by Captain Stuart Nicholson at Chatham on 5 March, 1907, for service in the Fifth Cruiser Squadron. In 1910, Natal was the best gunnery ship of the sixteen in Home Fleet, Second Division and the Second Cruiser Squadron, scoring 90.48 – well ahead of the average 47.567.

HMS Natal was a Warrior-class armoured cruiser built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. She escorted the royal yacht in 1911,1912 for the newly crowned King George V's trip to India to attend the Delhi Durbar.

A rare survival of HMS Natal is the “Natal Medal”. This medal was not issued by any national authority but was created by the Canteen Committee of HMS Natal and was issued on the 30th September 1915, the 10th anniversary of the launch of the ship.

H.M.S. Natal 1907 (Navis 131N) Class: Warrior - 4 first class armoured cruisers of 1903/04 Displacement: 13,550 tons Dimensions: 505ft 4in (oa) x 73ft 6in x 25ft Machinery: Triple expansion, (4 cyl.) 2 shaft, 23,000ihp = 23 knots Armament: 6-9.2in (6x1), 4-7.5in (4x1), 26-3pdr QF; 3-18in TT sub