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Revision as of 14:40, 19 May 2014
H.M.S. Melpomene (1888) | |
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Builder: | Portsmouth Royal Dockyard[1] |
Laid down: | 10 Oct, 1887[2] |
Launched: | 20 Sep, 1888[3] |
Commissioned: | 1890[4] |
Sold: | 1905[5] |
H.M.S. Melpomene was one of five second class protected cruisers of the Medea class completed for the Royal Navy in 1889 and 1890.
There was a later destroyer named Melpomene that fought in the Great War.
Service
Recommissioned at Portsmouth on 19 January, 1912. By July, 1913, she was ordered to pay off.[6]
Captains
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
- Captain Alfred A. C. Parr, 17 June, 1890[7]
- Captain Henry M. Doughty, 16 January, 1912[8]
See Also
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.
- ↑ The Navy List (July, 1913), p. 344.
- ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1891). p. 235.
- ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 344.
Bibliography
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