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Revision as of 15:20, 7 May 2015

H.M.S. Pegasus (1897)
Builder: Palmer, Jarrow[1]
Laid down: May, 1896[2]
Launched: 4 Mar, 1897[3]
Commissioned: 17 Jan, 1899
Sunk: 20 Sep, 1914[4]
Fate: by Königsberg at Zanzibar[5]

H.M.S. Pegasus was one of eleven Pelorus class cruisers completed for the Royal Navy between 1898 and 1901.

There was a later seaplane carrier named Pegasus.

Service

Pegasus commissioned at Chatham on 17 January, 1899, for service on the South-East Coast of America Station.[6]

She recommissioned at Devonport on 11 March, 1913 for service at the Cape of Good Hope.[7]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 83.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 83.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 83.
  4. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 83.
  5. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 41.
  6. ↑ "Naval & Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Wednesday, 18 January, 1899. Issue 35729, col B, p. 7.
  7. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1914). p. 354.
  8. ↑ Cochran Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38. f. 234.
  9. ↑ Cochran Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38. f. 234.
  10. ↑ Smith Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 295.
  11. ↑ Smith Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 295.
  12. ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1908). p. 353.
  13. ↑ Mitchell Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 134.
  14. ↑ Mitchell Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 134.
  15. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1914). p. 354.
  16. ↑ Naval Operations. Volume I. pp. 295-6.

Bibliography

  • Chesneau, Robert; Kolesnik, Eugene (editors) (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).


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