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Revision as of 10:51, 19 May 2014

H.M.S. Pelorus (1896)
Pendant Number: N/A[1]
Builder: Sheerness Royal Dockyard[2]
Laid down: May, 1895[3]
Launched: 15 Dec, 1896[4]
Commissioned: 30 Mar, 1897
Sold: 6 May, 1920[5]
Fate: to Ward, Grays[6]

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

Service

Pelorus commissioned at Chatham on 30 March, 1897, under the command of Captain Edward H. Bayly.[7]

She completed to full crew at Devonport 28 May, 1912.[8]

At the outbreak of the Great War, Pelorus joined Cruiser Force F of the Channel Fleet before being sent to join Cruiser Force E.[9]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

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. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 41.
  6. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 41.
  7. "Naval & Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Thursday, 1 April, 1897. Issue 35166, col E, p. 11.
  8. The Navy List (April, 1914), p. 354.
  9. Home Waters—Part I. p. 11.
  10. The Navy List. (October, 1898). p. 277.
  11. The Navy List. (October, 1908). p. 353.
  12. The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 353.
  13. The Navy List. (April, 1914). p. 354.
  14. The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 863.

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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