H.M.S. Sirius (1890)

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H.M.S. Sirius (1890)
Pendant Number: N.20 (1914)
N.94 (Jan 1918)[1]
Builder: Armstrong, Elswick[2]
Laid down: Sep, 1889[3]
Launched: 27 Oct, 1890[4]
Commissioned: 1891[5]
Blockship: 23 Apr, 1918[6]

H.M.S. Sirius was one of 21 Apollo class second-class cruisers completed in the early to mid 1890s.

Service

Sirius recommissioned at Devonport on 1 February, 1912. In mid-1913, she was operating in the West Atlantic.[7]

She recommissioned on 27 January, 1914.[8]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 39.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 76.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 76.
  4. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 76.
  5. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 76.
  6. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 76.
  7. The Navy List (July, 1913), p. 376.
  8. The Navy List (April, 1914), p. 374.
  9. "Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Thursday, 9 November, 1897. Issue 35356, col C, p. 6.
  10. Anstruther Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 96.
  11. The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 376.
  12. The Navy List. (April, 1914). p. 374.
  13. The Navy List. (October, 1915). p. 398b.

Bibliography


Apollo Class Second Class Protected Cruiser
Æolus Andromache Apollo Brilliant Indefatigable
Intrepid Iphigenia Latona Melampus Naiad
Pique Rainbow Retribution Sappho Scylla
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