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<div name=fredbot:career>{{ShipCareer|fullname=H.M.S. ''Melpomene'' (1888)|fate2= |comm=1890{{Conways1860|p. 76}} |fatedate=1905{{Conways1860|p. 76}} |order= |name=Melpomene |launch=20 Sep, 1888{{Conways1860|p. 76}} |builder=[[Portsmouth Royal Dockyard]]{{Conways1860|p. 76}} |laid=10 Oct, 1887{{Conways1860|p. 76}} |fate=Sold |pend= |fg=white|bg=crimson}}</div name=fredbot:career> '''H.M.S. ''Melpomene''''' was one of five second class protected cruisers of the [[Medea Class Cruiser (1888)|''Medea'' class]] completed for the [[Royal Navy]] in 1889 and 1890. There was a later destroyer named {{UK-Melpomene}} that fought in the [[Great War]]. ==Service== Commissioned at Portsmouth on 17 June, 1890.{{NLMar91|p. 235}} Recommissioned at Portsmouth on 19 January, 1912. By July, 1913, she was ordered to pay off.{{NLJul13|p. 344}} ==Captains== Dates of appointment are provided when known. <div name=fredbot:officeCapt otitle="Captain of H.M.S. ''Melpomene''"> {{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=John Robert Ebenezer Pattisson|nick=John R. E. Pattisson|appt=18 July, 1889<ref>Pattisson Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/37.|D7578684}} f. 999.</ref>|end=14 September, 1889<ref>Pattisson Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/37.|D7578684}} f. 999.</ref>|note=lent for manoeuvres}} {{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Alfred Arthur Chase Parr|nick=Alfred A. C. Parr|appt=17 June, 1890{{NLApr91|p. 235}}<ref>Parr Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/39.}} f. 1003.</ref>|end=14 February, 1894<ref>Parr Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/39.}} f. 1003.</ref>}} {{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Henry Leah|nick=Henry Leah|appt=8 July, 1896<ref>Leah Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/18/91}}</ref>|end=22 August, 1896<ref>Leah Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/18/91}}</ref>|note=for manoeuvres}} {{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Alexander William Chisholm-Batten|nick=Alexander W. Chisholm-Batten|appt=March, 1897{{NLOct98|p. 271}}|end=}} {{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=John Denison|nick=John Denison|appt=17 February, 1899<ref>Denison Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/19.}} f. 125.</ref>|end=9 July, 1900<ref>Denison Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/19.}} f. 125.</ref>}} {{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Charles Ferdinand Henderson|nick=Charles F. Henderson|appt=25 January, 1910<ref>Henderson Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}} f. 335.</ref>|end=15 January, 1912<ref>Henderson Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}} f. 335.</ref>}} {{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Henry Montagu Doughty|nick=Henry M. Doughty|appt=16 January, 1912{{NLJul13|p. 344}}|end=2 July, 1913<ref>Doughty Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 141.</ref>}} </div name=fredbot:officeCapt> ==See Also== {{refbegin}} {{WP|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Melpomene_(1888)}} {{refend}} ==Footnotes== {{reflist}} ==Bibliography== {{refbegin}} <div name=fredbot:bib></div name=fredbot:bib> {{refend}} {{Footer Medea Class Cruiser (1888)}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Melpomene}} {{CatShipSecondClassProtectedCruiser|UK}}

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