H.M.S. Caroline (1882)

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H.M.S. Caroline (1882)
Builder: Sheerness Royal Dockyard[1]
Laid down: Oct, 1881[2]
Launched: 25 Nov, 1882[3]
Completed: Dec, 1885[4]
Commissioned: 27 Jan, 1886[5]
Sold: 31 Aug, 1929
H.M.S. Caroline was one of seven Satellite Class corvettes completed for the Royal Navy.

Service

Re-commissioned at Hong Kong on 18 February, 1890.[6]

The ship was reduced to a hulk in 1897. In April, 1908 she was renamed Ganges and became a training ship. She was again renamed, as Powerful III in September 1913 and finally became Impregnable IV in November of 1919.

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 53.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 53.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 53.
  4. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 53.
  5. The Navy List. (February, 1888). p. 201.
  6. The Navy List. (April, 1891). p. 209.
  7. The Navy List. (February, 1888). pp. 200-1.
  8. The Navy List. (March, 1892). p. 209.
  9. The Navy List. (March, 1896). p. 211.

Bibliography


Satellite Class Corvette
Satellite Caroline Heroine Hyacinth Rapid
  Pylades Royalist