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{{ShipCareer|fullname=H.M.S. ''Plover'' (1888)|fatedate=27 Apr, 1927{{CN}}
|order=
|name=Plover
|comm=3 Jul, 1889{{NLMar91|p. 244}}
|launch=18 Oct, 1888{{CN}}
|builder=[[Pembroke Royal Dockyard]]{{Conways1860|p. 113}}
|fate=Sold
|pend=
|fg=white|bg=crimson}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''H.M.S. ''Plover''''' was one of six gunboats of the [[Pigmy Class Gunboat (1888)|''Pigmy'' class]].

==Service==
She was commissioned at Devonport on 3 July, 1889.  By 1891, she was assigned to the [[China Station]].{{NLMar91|p. 244}}

In 1913, she was in Gibraltar, busy with boom defence.{{NLMar13|p. 420}}

==Captains==
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Ernest Goldfinch Rason|nick=Ernest G. Rason|appt=3 July, 1889{{NLJul90|p. 240}}|end=31 December, 1890|precBy=New Command}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Lewis Knox Bell|nick=Lewis K. Bell|appt=3 January, 1891{{NLMar92|p. 244}}|end=13 November, 1892}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=Francis Charles Bathurst Addington|nick=Francis C. B. Addington|appt=1 September, 1892<ref>Addington Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42/10.}} f. 17.</ref>|end=26 November, 1895<ref>Addington Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42/10.}} f. 17.</ref>|ass=14 November, 1892<ref>Addington Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42/10.}} f. 17.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Spencer Victor Yorke de Horsey|nick=Spencer V. Y. de Horsey|appt=18 October, 1895{{NLMar96|p. 249}}|end=}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Carlton Valentine de Mornay Cowper|nick=Carlton V. de Mornay Cowper|appt=23 July, 1898<ref>Cowper Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42/262.|D7602197}}  f. 307.</ref>{{NLJan01|p. 293}}|end=30 July, 1901<ref>Cowper Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42/262.|D7602197}}  f. 307.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Hector Lloyd Watts-Jones|nick=Hector L. Watts-Jones|appt=30 July, 1901<ref>Watts-Jones Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43/235.|D8112211}} f. 257.</ref>{{NLMay02|p. 293}}|end=5 July, 1902<ref>Watts-Jones Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43/235.|D8112211}} f. 257.</ref>}}
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==See Also==
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==Footnotes==
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==Bibliography==
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