HMS BLONDE
by Kevin Patience

Builders Pembroke Dockyard, Pembroke, South Wales. 1888
Length 220 feet
Beam  35 feet
Displacement  1580 tons
Machinery  Twin three cyl. triple expansion steam engine, 1,750 hp
Speed      15 knots
Armament 6 x 4.7-inch breech loading guns
4 x 3 pounder breech loading guns
Complement 160
Disposal  Sold for scrap 1905
   

  

 

Crew  Casualties

Alfred E. Love (aged 23) Able Seaman 20 September 1894
     

 

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