"furious" had an overall length of , a beam of , and a draught of at deep load. she displaced normally and at deep load. she had a metacentric height of at deep load. "furious" and her half-sisters were the first large warships in the royal navy to have geared steam turbines. to save design time, the installation used in the light cruiser , the first cruiser in the rn with geared turbines, was copied and simply duplicated to provide two sets of turbines. the four brown-curtis turbines were powered by eighteen yarrow small-tube boilers that were designed to produce a total of . the ship's speed was an estimated , but she never ran her sea trials.