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==Captains==
 
==Captains==

Revision as of 17:14, 14 January 2014

H.M.S. Indefatigable (1891)
Builder: London & Glasgow, Glasgow[1]
Laid down: 1890[2]
Launched: 12 Mar, 1891[3]
Commissioned: 1892[4]
Sold: 1913[5]

H.M.S. Indefatigable was one of 21 Apollo class second-class cruisers completed in the early to mid 1890s.

She was renamed Melpomene in 1910 so that the new battlecruiser Indefatigable could take her name.

Service

Captains

Dates of appointment given:

See Also

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. Bayly Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/39. f. 79.
  7. Gaunt Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 276.
  8. Nelson-Ward Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 378.
  9. Borrett Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 505.

Bibliography


Apollo Class Second Class Protected Cruiser
Æolus Andromache Apollo Brilliant Indefatigable
Intrepid Iphigenia Latona Melampus Naiad
Pique Rainbow Retribution Sappho Scylla
  Sirius Spartan Sybille  
  Terpsichore Thetis Tribune  
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