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Revision as of 21:35, 31 August 2015

H.M.S. Apollo (1891)
Pendant Number: N.36 (1914)
N.05 (Jan 1918)[1]
Builder: Chatham Royal Dockyard[2]
Laid down: Apr, 1889[3]
Launched: 10 Feb, 1891[4]
Commissioned: 1892[5]
Sold: 1920[6]

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

Service

She commissioned at Chatham on 4 August 1909. In mid-1913, she was in Second Fleet in the Minelayer Squadron.[7]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 117.
  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. 279.
  8. Primrose Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/39/257. f. 1061.
  9. Primrose Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/39/257. f. 1061.
  10. Tillard Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/18. f. 375.
  11. Tillard Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/18. f. 375.
  12. The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 279.
  13. The Navy List. (April, 1914). p. 280.
  14. The Navy List. (September, 1919). p. 730.

See Also

Footnotes

Bibliography


Apollo Class Second Class Protected Cruiser
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