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| | #REDIRECT [[List_of_Urcean_cruiser_classes#Apostle-class_heavy_cruiser]] |
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| The '''''Apostle'' class''' was a class of fifteen heavy cruisers built for the Urcean Royal Navy in the 1910s and early 1920s. Naval theorists in the early 1910s s perceived a need for an intermediate step between well-armed light cruisers, such as Urcea's ''Glens Falls''-class cruisers, and the battlecruisers of some other nations, which Urcea did not employ. The heavy cruiser concept was born out of the need for a ship to counter other cruisers while still fulfilling cruiser missions, such as scouting and merchant escort. It was anticipated the ''Apostle''-class would work in tandem with a larger number of Coria-class cruisers in some missions. The Apostle-class saw heavy use in the Great War in a number of uses, but it was considered one of the more efficient anti-shipping and anti-destroyer ships of the early war. Five of the ships were converted into Gabban-class aircraft carriers between 1937 and 1940; the remainder were scrapped after the war.
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| ! colspan="2" |Class overview
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| |Name:
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| |''Apostle'' class
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| |Builders:
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| |PYC Limited
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| |Operators:
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| |Royal Navy
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| |Built:
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| |1914-1923
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| |In commission:
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| |1916-1953
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| |Completed:
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| |21
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| |Lost:
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| |4
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| |Scrapped:
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| |17
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| ! colspan="2" |General characteristics
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| |Type:
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| |Heavy cruiser
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| |Displacement:
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| * 9,750 tons (standard)
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| * 12,190 tons (full load)
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| |Length:
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| 565 ft (172 m) (p/p)
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| 605 ft (184 m)(o/a)
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| |Beam:
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| |58 ft (18 m) (65 ft across bulges)
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| |Draught:
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| |17.25 ft (5.26 m)
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| |Propulsion:
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| Ten oil-fired water-tube boilers
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| |Speed:
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| |31 knots (57.4 km/h) (30 knots (55.6 km/h) ''Hawkins'')
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| |Range:
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| |5,400 nmi (10,000 km) at 14 knots (26 km/h)
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| |Complement:
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| |712 / 750 flag
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| |Armament:
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| 7 × 7.5 inch naval guns in single mounts
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| 3 × 4 inch naval guns in single mounts
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| 8 × 3 inch naval guns in single mounts
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| 2 × submerged & 4 × fixed above water 21-inch torpedo tubes
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| |Armour:
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| Main belt;
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| 1.5–2.5 in (38–64 mm) forward
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| 3 in (76 mm) amidships
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| 2.25–1.5 in (57–38 mm) aft
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| Upper belt;
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| * 1.5 in (38 mm) forward
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| * 2 in (51 mm) amidships
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| Upper deck;
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| * 1–1.5 in (25–38 mm) over boilers
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| Main deck;
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| * 1–1.5 in (25–38 mm) over engines
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| * 1 in (25 mm) over steering gear
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| Gunshields;
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| * 2 in (51 mm) face
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| * 1 in (25 mm) crown & sides
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| == Design ==
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| == Service history ==
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| == Ships of the class ==
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| [[Category: Urcea]]
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| [[Category: Valcimport]]
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