Both ships were already obsolete when the First World War broke out and were used as depot ships for torpedo boat destroyers . In the course of this conversion, the armament was changed in 1907 and now consisted of four 152 mm naval guns, four QF-12 pounders and six QF-6 pounders.
literature
JJ Colledge, Ben Warlow: Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy , (Rev. ed.), London: Chatham. 1969, 2006, ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8 . OCLC 67375475.
TA Brassey (ed): The Naval Annual 1895
Roger Chesnau, Eugene Kolesnik (Ed.): Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships, 1860-1905 , Conway Maritime Press, 1979. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4
