H.M.C.S. Rainbow (1891)
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H.M.C.S. Rainbow (1891) | |
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Builder: | Palmer Shipbuilding and Iron Company, 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
She was commissioned on 4 August, 1910 for transfer to Esquimalt for service in the Royal Canadian Navy.Template:RCNL1910-14
Captains
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
- Commander Count Frederick C. Metaxa, 11 July, 1893[6] – c. mid August, 1893[Inference] (for Annual Manoeuvres of 1893)
- Captain William C. C. Forsyth, 5 March, 1895[7]
- Captain Frederic E. E. Brock, 11 July, 1899[8] – 24 August, 1899[9] (for Annual Manoeuvres of 1899)
- Captain Colin R. Keppel, 10 July, 1900[10]
- Captain Thomas Y. Greet, 17 December, 1901[11] – 19 August, 1902[12]
- Captain Charles D. Granville, 20 August, 1902[13] – 14 July, 1905
- Commander James D. D. Stewart, 4 August, 1910[14]Template:RCNL1910-14 – 1 August, 1911[15] (to transfer to Canadian service)
- Commander Walter Hose, 24 June, 1911[16] – May, 1917 (and for charge of Esquimalt Dockyard)
Footnotes
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 76.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 76.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 76.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 76.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 76.
- ↑ "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), Monday, Jul 10, 1893; pg. 10; Issue 33999.
- ↑ The Navy List. (March, 1896). p. 251.
- ↑ Brock Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/19. f. 219.
- ↑ Brock Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/19. f. 219.
- ↑ Keppel Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 168.
- ↑ Greet Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/19. f. 483.
- ↑ Greet Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/19. f. 483.
- ↑ The Navy List. (May, 1903). p. 297.
- ↑ Stewart Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/136. f. 151.
- ↑ Stewart Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/136. f. 151.
- ↑ The Navy List. (August, 1912). p. 398b.
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