H.M.S. Endymion (1891)

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H.M.S. Endymion (1891)
Pendant Number: A6 (1914)
N.17 (Sep 1915)
N.41 (Jan 1918)[1]
Builder: Earle, Hull[2]
Laid down: 21 Nov, 1889[3]
Launched: 22 Jul, 1891[4]
Commissioned: 26 May, 1894[5]
Sold: 16 Mar, 1920[6]
Fate: to Evans, Cardiff[7]

H.M.S. Endymion was one of nine protected cruisers of the Edgar class completed between 1893 and 1896.

Service

In mid-1913, she was flag ship at Queenstown.[8]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 38.
  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. 38.
  7. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 38.
  8. The Navy List (July, 1913), p. 308.
  9. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  10. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  11. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  12. Callaghan Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38. f. 195.
  13. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  14. King-Hall Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 42.
  15. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  16. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  17. Ley Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 74.
  18. Brownrigg Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 492.
  19. Brownrigg Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 492.
  20. Ley Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 74.
  21. The Navy List. (October, 1908). p. 309.
  22. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  23. Parker Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 2.
  24. The Navy List. (October, 1915). p. 393s.
  25. The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 393m.
  26. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  27. The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 788.

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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