Difference between revisions of "H.M.S. Melpomene (1888)"

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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.

Recommissioned at Portsmouth on 19 January, 1912. By July, 1913, she was ordered to pay off.^[6]

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

Captain John R. E. Pattisson, 18 July, 1889^[7] – 14 September, 1889^[8] (lent for manoeuvres)
Captain Alfred A. C. Parr, 17 June, 1890^[9]^[10] – 14 February, 1894^[11]
Captain Henry Leah, 8 July, 1896^[12] – 22 August, 1896^[13] (for manoeuvres)
Captain John Denison, 17 February, 1899^[14] – 9 July, 1900^[15]
Captain Charles F. Henderson, 25 January, 1910^[16] – 15 January, 1912^[17]
Captain Henry M. Doughty, 16 January, 1912^[18] – 2 July, 1913^[19]

Medea Class Second Class Protected Cruiser

Melpomene

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Minor Cruisers (UK)

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 Dates of appointment are provided when known.
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