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 L. H. Browne, 18 July, 1894[7] (lent for Annual Manoeuvres of 1894)
- Captain William C. C. Forsyth, 5 March, 1895[8]
- Captain Frederic E. E. Brock, 11 July, 1899[9] – 24 August, 1899[10] (for Annual Manoeuvres of 1899)
- Captain Colin R. Keppel, 10 July, 1900[11]
- Captain Arthur H. Smith-Dorrien, 16 July, 1901[12] (for the Annual Manoeuvres of 1901)
- Captain Thomas Y. Greet, 17 December, 1901[13] – 19 August, 1902[14]
- Captain Charles D. Granville, 20 August, 1902[15] – 14 July, 1905
- Commander James D. D. Stewart, 4 August, 1910[16]Template:RCNL1910-14 – 1 August, 1911[17] (to transfer to Canadian service)
- Commander Walter Hose, 24 June, 1911[18] – 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 Naval Manoeuvres." The Times (London, England), July 12, 1894, Issue 34314, p.10.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "The Naval Manoeuvres." The Times (London, England), Thursday, July 11, 1901, Issue 36504, p.8.
- ↑ 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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