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H.M.S. St. George (1892)
Pendant Number:	N.31 (1914) N.88 (Jan 1918)^[1]
Builder:	Earle, Hull^[2]
Laid down:	23 Apr, 1890^[3]
Launched:	23 Jun, 1892^[4]
Commissioned:	25 Oct, 1894^[5]
Sold:	1 Jul, 1920^[6]

H.M.S. St. George was completed in 1894 as one of nine Edgar class cruisers, but was converted to a depot ship before the Great War.

Service

St. George completed conversion to depot ship in March, 1910,^[7] commissioning at Chatham on the 15th.^[8] She would serve the Ninth Destroyer Flotilla in the Forth from mid-1913 if not earlier,^[9] the Seventh Destroyer Flotilla in the Humber in 1914-15, and finally to the Mediterranean.^[10]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

Captain Edward H. Gamble, December, 1894^[11]
Captain George Le C. Egerton, 11 May, 1895^[12]
Commodore, Second Class Edmund S. Poë, 31 October, 1899^[13]
Captain Paul W. Bush, 26 February, 1901^[14]
Captain Frank Finnis, 26 May, 1904^[15] – 7 December, 1904^[16]
Captain Arthur Y. Moggridge, 8 December, 1904^[17] – 14 May, 1906^[18]
Captain Charles H. H. Moore, c. 14 May, 1906^[19]^[20]
Captain Herbert A. S. Fyler, August, 1906^[21]
Captain Edward F. Bruen, 25 June, 1908^[22] – 19 September, 1908^[23]
Captain Guy L. Sclater, March, 1910^[24]
Captain Edward G. Lowther-Crofton, May, 1911^[25]
Captain Vincent B. Molteno, 1 May, 1912^[26]^[27] – 19 December, 1913^[28]
Captain Alan C. Bruce, 10 December, 1913^[29] – 27 January, 1914^[30]
Captain Cecil D. S. Raikes, 27 January, 1914^[31]
Captain Reginald L. Crichton, 21 March, 1915^[32]
Acting Captain Sidney R. Olivier, 2 November, 1915^[33]

Footnotes

↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 293.
↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 66.
↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 66.
↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 66.
↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 66.
↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 293.
↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 293.
↑ The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 370.
↑ The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 370.
↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 293.
↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
↑ Egerton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38. f. 396.
↑ Poë Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/39. f. 1051.
↑ "Naval & Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Thursday, 21 February, 1901. Issue 36384, col D, p. 10.
↑ Finnis Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38. f. 457.
↑ Finnis Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38. f. 457.
↑ Moggridge Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/19. f. 497.
↑ Moggridge Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/19. f. 497.
↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
↑ Day of year inferred from predecessor. Moggridge Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/19. f. 497.
↑ Fyler Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/88. f. 69.
↑ Bruen Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 210/418.
↑ Bruen Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 210/418.
↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
↑ The Navy List. (March, 1913). p. 370.
↑ Molteno Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 260.
↑ Molteno Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 260.
↑ Bruce Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/319. f. 351.
↑ Bruce Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/319. f. 351.
↑ The Navy List. (January, 1915). p. 378a.
↑ The Navy List. (October, 1915). p. 397t.
↑ The Navy List. (January, 1919). p. 900.

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).

Edgar Class First Class Protected Cruiser

Crescent

Edgar

Endymion

Gibraltar

Grafton

Hawke

Royal Arthur

St. George

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Blake Class

Major Cruisers (UK)

Powerful Class

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[1] Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 293.

[2] Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 66.

[3] Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 66.

[4] Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 66.

[5] Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 66.

[6] Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 293.

[7] Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 293.

[8] The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 370.

[9] The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 370.

[10] Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 293.

[11] Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.

[12] Egerton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38. f. 396.

[13] Poë Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/39. f. 1051.

[14] "Naval & Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Thursday, 21 February, 1901. Issue 36384, col D, p. 10.

[15] Finnis Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38. f. 457.

[16] Finnis Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38. f. 457.

[17] Moggridge Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/19. f. 497.

[18] Moggridge Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/19. f. 497.

[19] Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.

[20] Day of year inferred from predecessor. Moggridge Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/19. f. 497.

[21] Fyler Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/88. f. 69.

[22] Bruen Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 210/418.

[23] Bruen Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 210/418.

[24] Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.

[25] Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.

[26] The Navy List. (March, 1913). p. 370.

[27] Molteno Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 260.

[28] Molteno Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 260.

[29] Bruce Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/319. f. 351.

[30] Bruce Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/319. f. 351.

[31] The Navy List. (January, 1915). p. 378a.

[32] The Navy List. (October, 1915). p. 397t.

[33] The Navy List. (January, 1919). p. 900.

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