Barracouta-class cruiser

Class overview
Name	Barracouta class
Builders	Pembroke Dockyard Portsmouth Dockyard Sheerness Dockyard
Operators	Royal Navy
Built	1888–1889
In commission	1890–1905
Completed	4
Retired	4
General characteristics
Type	3rd class cruiser
Displacement	1,580 long tons (1,605 t)
Length	67.06 metres (220.0 ft) lbp 71.02 metres (233.0 ft) loa
Beam	10.67 metres (35.0 ft),
Draught	4.6 metres (15 ft)
Propulsion	4 boilers 2 steam engines 2 propellers
Speed	16.5 knots (30.6 km/h; 19.0 mph)
Complement	160
Armament	6 × 4.7 inch QF guns 4 × 3-pounder QF gun 2 × machine guns 2 × underwater torpedo tubes
Armour	1-2 inch (2.5-5.1cm) deck 2 inches (5.1 cm) gun shields

The Barracouta-class cruiser was a series of 4 third-class cruisers operated by the Royal Navy between 1890 and 1905. The ships were the first British cruisers to incorporate a number of features, such as an armored deck and quick-firing guns, as those designs were copied from other vessels. Two more vessels were built based on a lengthened version of the class. The ships mainly operated in the Mediterranean and British home waters before the entire class was scrapped.