title: Mersey-class cruiser
text: # Mersey-class cruiser
  
  The Mersey-class cruiser was a class of second class protected cruiser of the Royal Navy commissioned in the late 1880s.
  
  ## Ships
  
  | Name | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Completed |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | HMS Mersey | Chatham Dockyard | 9 July 1883 | 31 March 1885 | June 1887 |
  | HMS Severn | Chatham Dockyard | 1 January 1884 | 29 September 1885 | February 1888 |
  | HMS Thames | Pembroke Dockyard | 14 April 1884 | 3 December 1885 | July 1888 |
  | HMS Forth | Pembroke Dockyard | 1 December 1884 | 23 October 1886 | July 1889 |
  