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HMS Pathfinder is in Scottish Highlands, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 56.1182°, -2.1675°.

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HMS Pathfinder

HMS Pathfinder in Scotland Islands, United Kingdom.

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HMS Pathfinder is a place of interest in Scotland Islands, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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HMS Pathfinder was the lead ship of her class of two British scout cruisers, and was the first ship ever to be sunk by a self-propelled torpedo fired by submarine (the American Civil War sloop-of-war USS Housatonic had been sunk by a spar torpedo). She was built by Cammell Laird, Birkenhead, launched on 16 July 1904, and commissioned on 18 July 1905. She was originally to have been named Fastnet, but was renamed prior to construction. During the beginning of World War I, Pathfinder was sunk on 5 September 1914 by the German U-boat U-21.

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Architecture

In May 1902, the British Admiralty issued an invitation to tender to several shipbuilding yards for a new type of small cruiser, intended to act as leaders for flotillas of destroyers. The new ships required high speed to keep up with the destroyers, good seaworthiness and good communications equipment, but as they were only intended to fight destroyer-type vessels, a heavy armament was not specified. The Admiralty produced a broad specification for the ships, normal practice at the time for destroyers, requiring a speed of 25 kn, a range of 2000 nmi, light armour and an armament of ten 12-pounder () guns, eight 3-pounder (47 mm) guns and two torpedo tubes. A total of eight scout cruisers…

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