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{{ShipCareer|fullname=H.M.S. ''Antelope'' (1893)|comp=18 Jul, 1894{{LyonWinfieldSteamList|p. 306}}
|fatedate=27 May, 1919{{LyonWinfieldSteamList|p. 306}}
|order=[[Naval Defence Act]]
|name=Antelope
|launch=12 Jul, 1893{{Conways1860|p. 89}}
|builder=[[Devonport Royal Dockyard|Devonport]]{{Conways1860|p. 89}}
|laid=21 Oct, 1889{{Conways1860|p. 89}}
|fate=Sold
|pend=
|fg=white|bg=crimson}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''H.M.S. ''Antelope''''' was one of 11 torpedo gunboats of the [[Alarm Class Torpedo Gunboat (1892)|Alarm class]].

==Service==
In August 1891, her construction continued after a fifteen month hiatus.  ''The Times'' was by now referring to the entire ''Sharpshooter'' class as being "notoriously unsuccessful."{{NMI|Friday, Aug 14, 1891; pg. 8; Issue 33403}}

On 19 January 1894, she was taken outside Plymouth breakwater for an eight hours trial of her machinery.  Despite very low expectations, this trial delivered 17 knots in heavy seas and a force five wind.{{NMI|Saturday, Jan 20, 1894; pg. 5; Issue 34166}}  

Unlike her surviving sisters, ''Antelope'' was not converted to a minesweeper during the first decade of the twentieth century.  Instead reduced to harbour service in 1910, first as a tender to {{UK-Mercury}} to support submarines,{{NMI|Thursday, Mar 24, 1910; pg. 8; Issue 39228}}, she commissioned at Pembroke Dock on 25 June, 1910{{NLJul11|p. 278}} and eventually served at Devonport as a training ship.  She was sold to T. R. Sales for breaking up on 27 May, 1919.{{LyonWinfieldSteamList|p. 306}}

==Captains==
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Scott William Alfred Hamilton Gray|nick=Scott W. A. H. Gray|appt=18 July, 1894{{ToL|The Naval Manoeuvres|July 12, 1894, Issue 34314, p.10}}|end=1 October, 1894|note=for [[Annual Manoeuvres of 1894]]}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Herbert Lyon|nick=Herbert Lyon|appt=24 July, 1895{{ToL|The Naval Manoeuvres| July 19, 1895, Issue 34633, p.14}}|end=|note=for [[Annual Manoeuvres of 1895]]}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Joseph Ridgway Bridson|nick=Joseph R. Bridson|appt=8 July, 1896{{NMI|Thursday, Jul 09, 1896; pg. 11; Issue 34938}}|end=|note=for [[Annual Manoeuvres of 1896]]}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=George Frederick Glennie|nick=George F. Glennie|appt=15 June, 1897|end=26 July, 1897|note=lent for [[Annual Manoeuvres of 1897]]}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Oliver Adrian Stokes|nick=Oliver A. Stokes|appt=4 May, 1899{{NLMar01|p. 224}}<ref>Stokes Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/39.}} f. 1243.</ref>|end=4 May, 1902<ref>Stokes Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/39.}} f. 1243.</ref>|note=including [[Annual Manoeuvres of 1901]]?}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Henry Arthur Phillipps|nick=Henry A. Phillipps|appt=4 May, 1902{{NLMay02|p. 225}}|end=23 August, 1902}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=William Coldingham Masters Nicholson|nick=William C. M. Nicholson|appt=10 September, 1902<ref>Nicholson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}} f. 214.</ref>{{NLJan04|p. 273}}|end=30 November, 1904<ref>Nicholson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}} f. 214.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Frederic William Dean|nick=Frederic W. Dean|appt=30 November, 1904<ref>Dean Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43/39.|}} f. 41.</ref>|end=2 January, 1905<ref>Dean Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43/39.|}} f. 41.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Joseph Armand Shuter|nick=Joseph A. Shuter|appt=21 June, 1910{{NLJan12|p. 278}}|end=18 April, 1912<ref>Shuter Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/283.|D7603068}} f. 318.</ref>}}
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==See Also==
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==Footnotes==
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