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Lookout platform EARL

Bridge with Y CR
chartroom below

9.2in gun UISERS
in turret

One of sixteen 6in guns in casemates
▲ HMS LEVIATHAN ▼ HMS ADVENTURE Adventure was the first in a sequence
Commissioned 1903 Origin UK Commissioned 1905 Origin UK of pairs of virtually identical, lightly
protected scout cruisers built in four
Displacement 14,150 tons Foremast carried Displacement 2,640 tons different yards to a loose specification.
Length 533ft (162.6m) signal flags and Length 395ft (120.4m) It was to lead and support a destroyer
Top speed 23 knots radio antenna Top speed 25 knots flotilla, chiefly in home waters.
The first-class armored cruiser Leviathan had a
6in (15cm) thick protective belt running half
its length amidships, and the same in its turrets 12-pounder gun
and barbettes. The armored decks were much on unshielded mount
reduced in thickness to keep displacement
within acceptable limits.

Anchor

12 boilers ducted
Two propellers driven by
to the four funnels
▼ SMS DRESDEN twin triple-expansion engines
Commissioned 1908 Origin Germany
Displacement 4,270 tons
Length 387ft (117.9m)
Top speed 24 knots
With four turbine engines, the light
cruiser Dresden was a state-of-the-art Commissioning
One of ten fighting ship. Together with its pennant
6in guns in sister-ship Emden, it was one of the
casemates most effective surface-raiders of the
German Navy in World War I, until
sunk by the British Royal Navy in
March 1915.
5.2cm quick-firing gun
One of ten 10.5cm
quick-firing guns 10.5cm quick-
firing gun

Armored Submerged torpedo tube
ram bow