 The ships were 400 feet ( 121 @.@ 9 m ) long between perpendiculars and 407 feet ( 124 @.@ 1 m ) long overall . They had a beam of 58 feet 6 inches ( 17 @.@ 8 m ) and a draft of 26 feet 10 inches ( 8 @.@ 2 m ) . The Minotaur @-@ class ships displaced 10 @,@ 627 long tons ( 10 @,@ 798 t ) . Their hull was subdivided by 15 watertight transverse bulkheads and had a double bottom underneath the engine and boiler rooms . 
