DIADEM Class

cruiser
NIOBE served with the RN before being handed over to the newly formed RCN in 1910. She went aground off Cape Sable in 1911, needed repairs until 1912, and sat idle until 1914. During 1914-15, she served with the RN's 4th Cruiser Squadron off New York. A maintenance disaster, she spent the rest of the war and until 1920 in Halifax as a depot ship, during which time she was damaged in the 1917 Halifax Explosion.

DIADEM Class
Characteristics:

Displacement: 11,000 tons 
Dimensions: 142.0 x 21.0 x 7.9 meters (466 x 69 x 26 feet) 
Propulsion: 15 knots 
Crew: 677 
Armament: 16 6", 12 12 Pdrs, 5 3 Pdrs, 2 18" TT (below waterline) 

Ships:
 
 
Name
Launched
Commissioned
Paid Off
NIOBE
20/2/97
6/9/10
1/6/20

Photos:

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HMCS NIOBE was one of eight DIADEM class armoured cruisers, and she served in the Royal Navy from 1898 to 1910. In 1910, NIOBE and RAINBOW became the first two members of the Royal Canadian Navy. She was scrapped in Philadelphia in 1922. DND photo, Courtesy of Bill Croshaw. 
 

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