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HMS Highflyer can be seen to the left, anchored in the
harbour with her distinctive three funnels, in this section of a
panoramic view of explosion damage.
| Name: HMS Highflyer | Class: Highflyer Class (Improved Eclipse Class) |
Signal Letters: GRHN |
| Tonnage: 5600 Load Displacement |
Dimensions: 350' long, 56' breadth, 22' deep |
| Built: Govan, United Kingdom | Builder: Fairfield | Year: 1898 |
| Registered Port: Royal Navy, Great Britain | Owners: Royal Navy, Great Britain |
| Engines: Triple expansion reciprocating steam engine, twin screw |
Horsepower: 12,500 NHP |
| Armament: 11 x 6" guns, 9 x 12 pdr guns, 6 x 3 pdr guns, 2 x 18" torpedo tubes | Crew: 450 |
| Career: Highflyer was the last serving cruiser from the Victorian navy. She saw extensive action in World War I including the
sinking of the German Armed Merchant Cruiser Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse in 1915. She served as the flagship of the Royal Navy's North American and West Indies Squadron in 1917. She was at anchor by the Halifax Dockyard when Mont Blanc exploded. Highflyer received considerable damage. Three crew were killed aboard and 50 were injured, in addition to the loss of her whaler crew who went to assist the burning Mont Blanc. After helping with rescue and relief in Halifax, she quickly made repairs and escorted the first convoy to leave Halifax following the explosion on December 11. After the war she was made Flagship of the East Indies Squadron and was retired and sold for scrap in Bombay in 1921. |
| Sources: Jane's Fighting Ships 1914; Morris, Cruisers of the Royal and Commonwealth Navies, pp. 78-80. |
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