H.M.S. Proserpine (1896)

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H.M.S. Proserpine (1896)
Pendant Number: N.84 (1914)
none (Jan 1918)[1]
Builder: Sheerness Royal Dockyard[2]
Laid down: Mar, 1896[3]
Launched: 5 Dec, 1896[4]
Commissioned: 1899[5]
Sold: 30 Nov, 1919[6]

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

Service

Proserpine commissioned at Malta on 26 February, 1913 for service in the Mediterranean.[7]

Proserpine recommissioned at Sheerness on 9 January, 1914.[8]

Captains

Dates of appointment given:

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 41.
  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. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 83.
  6. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 41.
  7. The Navy List (July, 1913), p. 363.
  8. The Navy List (April, 1914), p. 362.
  9. Leatham Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 147.
  10. The Navy List (July, 1913), p. 363.
  11. The Navy List (April, 1914), p. 362.

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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