H.M.C.S. Rainbow (1891)

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H.M.C.S. Rainbow (1891)
Builder: Palmer, Jarrow[1]
Laid down: 1890[2]
Launched: 25 Mar, 1891[3]
Commissioned: 1892[4]
Sold: 1920[5]

H.M.S. Rainbow was one of twenty Apollo class second-class cruisers completed in the early to mid 1890s.

She was transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy in 1910, becoming H.M.C.S. Rainbow.

Service

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

Footnotes

  1. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 76.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 76.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 76.
  4. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 76.
  5. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 76.
  6. Brock Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/19. f. 219.
  7. Brock Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/19. f. 219.

See Also

Bibliography


Apollo Class Second Class Protected Cruiser
Æolus Andromache Apollo Brilliant Indefatigable
Intrepid Iphigenia Latona Melampus Naiad
Pique Rainbow Retribution Sappho Scylla
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