H.M.S. Latona (1890)

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H.M.S. Latona (1890)
Pendant Number: P.51 (1914)
N.49 (Sep 1915)
N.03 (Jan 1918)[1]
Builder: Vickers[2]
Laid down: 1889[3]
Launched: 22 May, 1890[4]
Commissioned: 1893[5]
Sold: 22 Dec, 1920[6]
Fate: at Malta[7]

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

Service

Recommissioned at Chatham on 1 June, 1908. In mid-1913, active with the Minelayer Squadron of Second Fleet.[8]

Latona paid off 23 December, 1918 at Malta.[9]

Captains

Dates of appointment given:

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 117.
  2. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 117.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 76.
  4. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 117.
  5. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 76.
  6. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 117.
  7. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 117.
  8. The Navy List (July, 1913), p. 338.
  9. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 800.
  10. The Navy List (January, 1907), p. 339.
  11. The Navy List (April, 1910), p. 338.
  12. The Navy List (July, 1913), p. 338.
  13. The Navy List (April, 1914), p. 337.
  14. The Navy List (January, 1915), p. 345.
  15. The Navy List (December, 1916), p. 395tt.
  16. The Navy List (November, 1917), p. 395.

Bibliography


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