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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Arthur Yerbury Moggridge|nick=Arthur Y. Moggridge|appt=16 July, 1901<ref>Moggridge Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/19.}} f. 421.</ref>|end=20 August, 1901<ref>Moggridge Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/19.}} f. 421.</ref>|note=for manoeuvres}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Arthur Yerbury Moggridge|nick=Arthur Y. Moggridge|appt=16 July, 1901<ref>Moggridge Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/19.}} f. 421.</ref>|end=20 August, 1901<ref>Moggridge Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/19.}} f. 421.</ref>|note=for manoeuvres}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Henry Louis Fleet|nick=Henry L. Fleet|appt=16 September, 1902<ref>Fleet Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/38.|D7601128}} f. 101.</ref>|end=19 January, 1903<ref>Fleet Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/38.|D7601128}} f. 101.</ref>}}
 
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Thomas Young Greet|nick=Thomas Y. Greet|appt=19 January, 1903<ref>Greet Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/19.}} f. 483.</ref>|end=18 June, 1903<ref>Greet Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/19.}} f. 483.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Albert Sumner Lafone|nick=Albert S. Lafone|appt=19 June, 1903{{NLJan04|p. 272}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Albert Sumner Lafone|nick=Albert S. Lafone|appt=19 June, 1903{{NLOct04|p. 272}}|end=}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=George Arthur Hardinge|nick=The Hon. George A. Hardinge|appt=4 July, 1905{{NLDec05|p. 272}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=George Arthur Hardinge|nick=The Hon. George A. Hardinge|appt=4 July, 1905{{NLDec05|p. 272}}|end=}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Douglas Lionel Dent|nick=Douglas L. Dent|appt=2 July, 1906{{NLJan07|p. 272}}|end=28 January, 1908<ref>Dent Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 50.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Douglas Lionel Dent|nick=Douglas L. Dent|appt=2 July, 1906{{NLJan07|p. 272}}|end=28 January, 1908<ref>Dent Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 50.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Louis Charles Stirling Woollcombe|nick=Louis C. S. Woollcombe|appt=24 June, 1910<ref>Woollcombe Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 267.</ref>|end=2 August, 1910<ref>Woollcombe Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 267.</ref>|note=for manoeuvres}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Louis Charles Stirling Woollcombe|nick=Louis C. S. Woollcombe|appt=24 June, 1910<ref>Woollcombe Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 267.</ref>|end=2 August, 1910<ref>Woollcombe Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 267.</ref>|note=for manoeuvres}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Charles Blois Miller|nick=Charles B. Miller|appt=20 September, 1910<ref>Miller Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42/382.|D8115576}} f. 456.</ref>|end=22 November, 1910<ref>Miller Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42/382.|D8115576}} f. 456.</ref>|note=trooping}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Charles Blois Miller|nick=Charles B. Miller|appt=20 September, 1910<ref>Miller Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42/382.|D8115576}} f. 456.</ref>|end=22 November, 1910<ref>Miller Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42/382.|D8115576}} f. 456.</ref>|note=trooping}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Alan Geoffrey Hotham|nick=Alan G. Hotham|appt=23 May, 1911{{NLMar13|p. 273}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Alan Geoffrey Hotham|nick=Alan G. Hotham|appt=23 May, 1911{{NLMar13|p. 273}}|end=}}
 
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Revision as of 11:12, 8 April 2016

H.M.S. Æolus (1891)
Builder: Devonport Royal Dockyard[1]
Laid down: 1890[2]
Launched: 13 Nov, 1891[3]
Commissioned: 6 Jan, 1894[4]
Sold: 1914[5]

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

Service

Æolus was launched on 13 November, 1891. She was christened by Lady Molyneux, the wife of Devonport Admiral Superintendent Sir Robert Molyneux.[6]

She re-commissioned at Devonport on 23 May, 1911 under Commander Alan Geoffrey Hotham.[7]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

Footnotes

  1. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 76.
  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. "Naval & Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Saturday, 14 November, 1891. Issue 33482, col F, p. 9.
  7. The Navy List. (August, 1912). p. 273.
  8. "The Naval Manœuvres". The Times. Monday, 10 July, 1893. Issue 33999, col D, p. 10.
  9. The Navy List. (April, 1897). p. 196.
  10. "The Naval Review at Spithead". The Times. Wednesday, 9 June, 1897. Issue 35225, col D, p. 10.
  11. Tudor Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/19. f. 281.
  12. Tudor Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/19. f. 281.
  13. "The Naval Mobilization". The Times. Monday, 10 July, 1899. Issue 35877, col C, p. 10.
  14. Moggridge Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/19. f. 421.
  15. Moggridge Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/19. f. 421.
  16. Fleet Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38. f. 101.
  17. Fleet Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38. f. 101.
  18. Greet Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/19. f. 483.
  19. The Navy List. (October, 1904). p. 272.
  20. The Monthly Navy List. (December, 1905). p. 272.
  21. The Navy List. (January, 1907). p. 272.
  22. Dent Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 50.
  23. Woollcombe Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 267.
  24. Woollcombe Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 267.
  25. Miller Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42/382. f. 456.
  26. Miller Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42/382. f. 456.
  27. The Navy List. (March, 1913). p. 273.

See Also

Footnotes

Bibliography


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