The Cape Of Good Hope

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HMS Good Hope was one of four Drake classarmoured cruisers built for the Royal Navy around 1. Africa, but was renamed before she was launched. She became flagship of the 1st Cruiser Squadron of the Atlantic Fleet in 1. Cruiser Squadron in 1. Disciplina Positiva Pdf Libro Software Engineer. She was reduced to reserve in 1. When war was declared in August 1. Good Hope was ordered to reinforce the 4th Cruiser Squadron and became the flagship of Rear Admiral. Christopher Cradock. Cradock moved the available ships of his squadron later that month to the coast of South America to search for German commerce raiders. He was then ordered further south to the Strait of Magellan to block any attempt of the German East Asia Squadron to penetrate into the South Atlantic. He found the German squadron on 1 November off the coast of Chile. The German squadron outnumbered Cradocks force and were individually more powerful they sank Cradocks two armoured cruisers in the Battle of Coronel. Good Hope was lost with all hands. Design and descriptioneditGood Hope was designed to displace 1. The ship had an overall length of 5. She was powered by two 4 cylinder triple expansion steam engines, each driving one shaft, which produced a total of 3. W and gave a maximum speed of 2. The engines were powered by 4. Belleville boilers. She carried a maximum of 2,5. World Factbook Entry. The Cape of Good Hope now taking WFE suggestions. This region prides itself on helpfulness, good conversation, and above all, its members. Cool Apps For Windows 8. Volunteering in South Africa Namibia. Volunteers leave their foot print in South Africa, not only by dedicating their time and energy to their chosen project but. Good Hope Sailing Academy Sailing courses, Cape Town. Her main armament consisted of two breech loading BL 9. Mk X guns in single gun turrets, one each fore and aft of the superstructure. They fired 3. Her secondary armament of sixteen BL 6 inch Mk VII guns was arranged in casemates amidships. Eight of these were mounted on the main deck and were only usable in calm weather. They had a maximum range of approximately 1. A dozen quick firing QF1. Two additional 1. Good Hope also carried three 3 pounder. Hotchkiss guns and two submerged 1. The ships waterlinearmour belt had a maximum thickness of 6 inches 1. The armour of the gun turrets and their barbettes was 6 inches thick while the casemate armour was 5 inches thick. The protective deck armour ranged in thickness from 12. ServiceeditGood Hope, named after the British colony on the Cape of Good Hope, was laid down on 1. September 1. 89. 9 with the name of Africa7 by Fairfield Shipbuilding Engineering at their Govan shipyard. She was renamed Good Hope on 2 October and launched on 2. February 1. 90. 1, when she was formally named by Mrs. Ethel Elgar, wife of Francis Elgar, manager of the shipbuilding company. She arrived in Portsmouth to be completed and armed in late December 1. In 1. 90. 6 she became the flagship of the 1st Cruiser Squadron, Atlantic Fleet and was the flagship of the 2nd Cruiser Squadron when she visited South Africa two years later. Good Hope was placed in reserve in 1. Upon recommissioning in mid 1. Cruiser Squadron in August before being assigned to the 4th Cruiser Squadron to reinforce Cradocks forces. He transferred his flag to her because she was faster than his previous flagship. Cradocks command was transferred to the coast of South America later that month at his own suggestion to better hunt for the German ships preying upon British merchant ships. His ships were generally unsuccessful in this and he moved his squadron further south in late September to search for the East Asia Squadron, under the command of Vice Admiral Graf Maximilian von Spee, in the vicinity of Cape Horn and the Strait of Magellan in accordance to his orders from the Admiralty. At the end of September, Cradock made his first fruitless search of the Tierra del Fuego area and later detached three of his ships to search up the Chilean coast, reaching Valparaiso on 1. October, while Good Hope returned to Port Stanley, in the Falkland Islands, to recoal and to reestablish communications with the Admiralty. He received word on 7 October that Spees ships were definitely bound for the Cape Horn region and waited for the elderly predreadnought battleship. Canopus to reinforce his squadron. She was in poor mechanical condition when she arrived at Port Stanley and required time to make repairs. Good Hope sailed on 2. October without her, going around Cape Horn, while Canopus and three colliers departed the following day, taking the shorter route through the Strait of Magellan. Battle of CoroneleditGood Hope rendezvoused with the rest of the squadron at Vallenar Roads in the remote Chonos Archipelago of Chile on 2. October to recoal. They departed two days later, just as Canopus arrived, Cradock ordering the battleship to follow as soon as possible. He sent the light cruiser. Glasgow to scout ahead and to enter Coronel, Chile to pick up any messages from the Admiralty and acquire intelligence regarding German activities. The cruiser began to pick up German radio signals from the light cruiser SMS Leipzig on the afternoon of 2. October, and delayed entering Coronel for two days with Cradocks permission to avoid being trapped by the fast German ships. A German supply ship was already there and radioed Spee that Glasgow had entered the harbour around twilight. The cruiser departed on the morning of 1 November, but Spee had already made plans to catch her when informed of her presence the previous evening. Glasgow departed Coronel at 0. Cradock ordered his ships to form line abreast with an interval of 1. At 1. 6 1. 7 Leipzig spotted Glasgow, the easternmost British ship, to its west and she spotted Leipzigs funnel smoke three minutes later. At 1. 7 1. 0 Cradock ordered his ships to head for Glasgow, the closest ship to the Germans. Once gathered together, he formed them into line astern, with Good Hope in the lead, steering southeasterly at 1. As the sixteen 2. Scharnhorst and Gneisenau were only matched by the two 9. The Force 7 winds and high seas, however, prevented the use of half of those guns as they were too close to the water. He also wanted to use the setting sun to his advantage so that its light would blind the German gunners. Spee was well aware of the British advantages and refused to allow Cradock to close the range. His ships were faster than the British, slowed by the 1. Otranto, and he opened up the range to 1. The sun set at 1. British ships against the light sky while the German ships became indistinguishable from the shoreline behind them. Spee immediately turned to close and signalled his ships to open fire at 1. Spees flagship, Scharnhorst, engaged Good Hope while Gneisenau fired at Monmouth. Cradocks flagship was hit on the Scharnhorsts third salvo, when shells knocked out her forward 9. Cradock, knowing his only chance was to close the range, continued to do so despite the battering that Spees ships inflicted. By 1. 9 2. 3 the range was almost half of that when the battle began and the British ships bore onwards. Spee tried to open the range, fearing a torpedo attack, but the British were only 5,5. Seven minutes later, Good Hope charged directly at the German ships, although they dodged out of her way. Spee ordered his armoured cruisers to concentrate their fire on the British flagship and she soon drifted to a halt with her topsides all aflame. At 1. 9 5. 0 her forward magazine exploded, severing the bow from the rest of the ship, and she later sank in the darkness. Spee estimated that his flagship had made 3. Good Hope, suffering only two hits in return that did no significant damage and failed even to wound one crewman. Good Hope was sunk with all hands, a total of 9.