Each Boadicea displaced 3,350 long tons. A modern Batch 2 River-class offshore patrol vessel displaces about 2,000 tons, so HMS Forth, HMS Medway, and HMS Trent together weigh roughly as much as two Boadicea-class cruisers. The comparison does not equate their roles or fighting power. It gives viewers a concrete measure of how warship size, capability, and type labels have shifted over more than a century.
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A 1907 cruiser weighed little more than modern patrol ships
The 3,350-ton Boadiceas were only modestly larger than modern 2,000-ton Batch 2 River-class patrol vessels. The comparison shows how the scale attached to naval labels has changed.