Building Programme
On 2 December 1884, the Secretary to the Admiralty stated, "The present Board have been gradually developing, and, as I would venture to say, in an effective manner, our resources for the protection of commerce. The late Board of Admiralty laid down an admirable type for the purpose in the Leander class. We have followed in their footsteps by producing the Mersey type, and we now propose to go a step further in the same direction, by laying down vessels of the Mersey class, but protected by a belt in lieu of an armoured deck. The belt will, I think, be approved by my hon. Friend who sits behind me (Sir Edward J. Reed)." These belted cruisers were the Orlando class.
The following table gives the build details and purchase cost of the members of the Orlando class. Standard British practice at that time was for these costs to exclude armament and stores. In the table:
- Machinery meant "propelling machinery".
- Hull included "hydraulic machinery, gun mountings, etc."
| Ship | Builder | Maker of Engines |
Date of | Cost | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laid Down | Launch | Completion | ( BNA 1895) | ( BNA 1903) | |||||
| Hull | Machinery | Total |
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| Orlando | Palmers, Jarrow | Palmers | 23 Apr 1885 | 3 Aug 1886 | June 1888 | £206,647 | £60,165 | £266,812 | £303,065 |
| Aurora | Pembroke Dockyard | J&G Thompson | 1 Feb 1886 | 28 Oct 1887 | July 1889 | £220,550 | £64,000 | £284,550 | £326,110 |
| Australia | Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan | C & W Earle | 21 Apr 1885 | 25 Nov 1886 | October 1888 | £195,390 | £63,000 | £258,390 | £299,027 |
| Galatea | Napier, Glasgow | Napier | 21 Apr 1885 | 10 Mar 1887 | March 1889 | £195,390 | £63,000 | £258,390 | £291,803 |
| Immortalite | Chatham Dockyard | C & W Earle | 18 Jan 1886 | 7 Jul 1887 | July 1889 | £221,500 | £57,000 | £278,500 | £332,359 |
| Narcissus | C & W Earle, Hull | C & W Earle | 27 Apr 1885 | 15 Dec 1886 | July 1889 | £195,890 | £61,500 | £257,390 | £300,149 |
| Undaunted | Palmers, Jarrow | Palmers | 23 Apr 1885 | 25 Nov 1886 | July 1889 | £195,890 | £60,165 | £256,055 | £300,863 |
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