Building Programme
The following table gives the build details and purchase cost of the members of the Edgar class. Standard British practice at that time was for these costs to exclude armament and stores. (There are unexplained discrepancies between the costs quoted in different issues of Brassey's Naval Annual; this is illustrated by the table in the notes.)
Ship | Builder | Maker of Engines |
Date of | Cost | ||||
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Laid Down | Launch | Completion | (BNA 1895) | (BNA 1905) | (BNA 1906) | |||
Edgar | Devonport Dockyard | Elder | 3 Jun 1889 | 24 Nov 1890 | 2 Mar 1893 | £401,083 | £428,081 | £410,980 |
Hawke | Chatham Dockyard | Elder | 16 Jun 1889 | 11 Mar 1891 | 16 May 1893 | £365,491 | £413,101 | £400,702 |
Endymion | C & W Earle, Hull | Earle | 22 Nov 1889 | 22 July 1891 | 26 May 1894 | £350,459 | £397,973 | £375,250 |
Royal Arthur ex-Centaur |
Portsmouth Dockyard | Maudslay | 20 Jan 1890 | 26 Feb 1891 | 2 Mar 1893 | £402,414 | £427,620 | £412,033 |
Gibraltar | Robert Napier & Sons, Govan | Napier | 2 Dec 1889 | 27 Apr 1892 | 1 Nov 1894 | £347,634 | £377,741 | £373,236 |
Grafton | Thames Ironworks Leamouth | Humphrys | 1 Jan 1890 | 30 Jan 1892 | 18 Oct 1894 | £351,851 | £381,958 | £372,890 |
St George | C & W Earle, Hull | Maudslay | 23 Apr 1890 | 23 Jun 1892 | 25 Oct 1894 | £377,204 | £407,540 | £388,755 |
Theseus | Thames Ironworks Leamouth | Maudslay | 16 Jul 1890 | 8 Sep 1892 | 14 Jan 1894 | £347,577 | £377,913 | £370,359 |
Crescent | Portsmouth Dockyard | Penn | 13 Oct 1890 | 30 Mar 1892 | 22 Feb 1894 | £383,068 | £411,108 | £392,453 |
Cost According to Different Issues of Brassey's Naval Annual | ||||||||||||||||||
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1888-89 | 1890 | 1891 | 1892 | 1893 | 1894 | 1895 | 1896 | 1897 | 1898 | 1899 | 1900 | 1901 | 1902 | 1903 | 1904 | 1905 | 1906 | |
HMS Edgar | £373,548 |
£398,340 |
£401,083 | £401,083 | £401,083 | £401,083 | £401,083 |
£401,083 |
£401,083 | £401,083 |
£401,083 |
£401,083 | £428,081 | £428,081 | £428,081 | £410,980 |
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