The _Sanspareil_ had an uneventful career, and was eventually sold out of the Service somewhat suddenly under the “scrap-heap” policy of Admiral Fisher in 1904. Following upon the _Imperieuse_ type, an entirely new class of armoured cruisers, the _Orlandos_, were designed. Just as the _Victorias_ were improved and enlarged _Conquerors_, so the _Orlandos_ were “improved _Merseys_.” Particulars of these ships, of which seven were built altogether, are as follows:-- Displacement--5,600 tons. Length (between perpendiculars)--300ft. Beam--56ft. Draught (maximum)--22½ft. (actually more). Armament--Two 9.2in. B.L.; ten 6in.; and six torpedo tubes. Armour (compound)--Belt amidships 10in., with 16in. Bulkheads. Protective deck at ends. All guns protected by shields only. Horse-power--8,500 = 18 knots. Coal (maximum)--900 tons = nominal radius of 8,000 miles. [Illustration: BOARDING A SLAVE DHOW] They were built as follows:-- ===============+===========+============= NAME. | BUILDER. | ENGINED BY ---------------+-----------+------------- _Orlando_ | Palmer | Palmer _Australia_ | Glasgow | Napier _Aurora_ | Pembroke | Thompson _Galatea_ | Glasgow | Napier _Immortalité_ | Chatham | Earle _Narcissus_ | Hull | Earle _Undaunted_ | Palmer | Palmer ===============+===========+============= They were laid down in 1885 and 1886. The _Orlando_ was completed in 1888, all the others in 1889. They were launched in 1886 and 1887, and some of them, fitted with wooden guns (“Quakers”), served to swell the Fleet at the great Jubilee Review of 1887. All made over their designed speeds on trial, but they did their trials “light.” In service all proved fairly useful, and the _Undaunted_, with Lord Charles Beresford as her captain in the Mediterranean, “made history” to the extent of first creating an Anglo-American _entente_, beginning with the U.S.S. _Chicago_, captained then by the now universally known naval author, Admiral Mahan. Beresford first achieved fame in the _Condor_ at Alexandra, in 1882; but it was in the _Undaunted_ that he first “made history” by ending the previously existing hostility between the British and U.S. Navies; and establishing the naval brotherhood of those who speak the same language. The _Orlandos_ were the last of the essentially Barnaby ships. Barnaby was associated with the Navy thereafter; but the _Nile_ and _Trafalgar_, though produced under his régime, were not “Barnaby ships,” and differences of opinion with the Admiralty about them eventuated in his resignation.