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'''H.M.S. ''Æolus''''' was one of 21 [[Apollo Class Cruiser (1890)|''Apollo'' class]] second-class cruisers completed in the early to mid 1890s.
 
'''H.M.S. ''Æolus''''' was one of 21 [[Apollo Class Cruiser (1890)|''Apollo'' class]] second-class cruisers completed in the early to mid 1890s.
  
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==Service==
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''Æolus'' was launched on 13 November, 1891. She was christened by Lady Molyneux, the wife of Devonport Admiral Superintendent [[Robert Henry More Molyneux|Sir Robert Molyneux]].<ref>"Naval & Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices).  ''The Times''.  Saturday, 14 November, 1891.  Issue '''33482''', col F, p. 9.</ref>
 
''Æolus'' was launched on 13 November, 1891. She was christened by Lady Molyneux, the wife of Devonport Admiral Superintendent [[Robert Henry More Molyneux|Sir Robert Molyneux]].<ref>"Naval & Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices).  ''The Times''.  Saturday, 14 November, 1891.  Issue '''33482''', col F, p. 9.</ref>
  
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==Service==
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She re-commissioned at Devonport on 23 May, 1911 under {{CommRN}} [[Alan Geoffrey Hotham]].{{NLAug12|p. 273}}
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She arrived at St. Vincent under Hotham's command on 29 July, 1913.<ref>"Naval And Military Intelligence."  ''The Times'' (London, England), Thursday, Jul 31, 1913; pg. 12; Issue 40278.</ref>
  
 
==Captains==
 
==Captains==
 
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
 
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Walter Hodgson Bevan Graham|nick=Walter H. B. Graham|appt=11 July, 1893<ref>"The Naval Manœuvres".  ''The Times''.  Monday, 10 July, 1893.  Issue '''33999''', col D, p. 10.</ref>|note=for manoeuvres|precBy=New Command}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Walter Hodgson Bevan Graham|nick=Walter H. B. Graham|appt=11 July, 1893<ref>"The Naval Manœuvres".  ''The Times''.  Monday, 10 July, 1893.  Issue '''33999''', col D, p. 10.</ref>|note=for [[Annual Manoeuvres of 1893]]|precBy=New Command}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Robert Leonard Groome|nick=Robert L. Groome|appt=16 January, 1894{{NLApr97|p. 196}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Robert Leonard Groome|nick=Robert L. Groome|appt=16 January, 1894<ref>Groome Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/38/458.|}} f. 544.</ref>{{NLApr97|p. 196}}|end=24 April, 1897<ref>Groome Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/38/458.|}} f. 544.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Henry Morton Tudor Tudor|nick=Henry M. T. Tudor|appt=15 June, 1897<ref>"The Naval Review at Spithead".  ''The Times''.  Wednesday, 9 June, 1897.  Issue '''35225''', col D, p. 10.</ref>|note=for manoeuvres}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Henry Morton Tudor Tudor|nick=Henry M. T. Tudor|appt=15 June, 1897<ref>"The Naval Review at Spithead".  ''The Times''.  Wednesday, 9 June, 1897.  Issue '''35225''', col D, p. 10.</ref><ref>Tudor Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/19.}} f. 281.</ref>|end=4 August, 1897<ref>Tudor Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/19.}} f. 281.</ref>|note=for Naval Review at Spithead and possibly [[Annual Manoeuvres of 1897]]}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=John Casement|nick=John Casement|appt=11 July, 1899<ref>"The Naval Mobilization".  ''The Times''.  Monday, 10 July, 1899.  Issue '''35877''', col C, p. 10.</ref>|note=for manoeuvres}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=John Casement|nick=John Casement|appt=11 July, 1899<ref>"The Naval Mobilization".  ''The Times''.  Monday, 10 July, 1899.  Issue '''35877''', col C, p. 10.</ref>|note=for [[Annual Manoeuvres of 1899]]}}
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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=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 [[Annual Manoeuvres of 1901]]}}
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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={{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={{CommRN}}|name=George Arthur Hardinge|nick=The Hon. George A. Hardinge|appt=4 July, 1905{{NLDec05|p. 272}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Thomas Young Greet|nick=Thomas Y. Greet|appt=19 January, 1903{{NLMay03|p. 221}}<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>|end=1903}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Albert Sumner Lafone|nick=Albert S. Lafone|appt=19 June, 1903<ref>Lafone Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/42/156.|D7602099}} f. 183.</ref>{{NLOct04|p. 272}}|end=4 July, 1905<ref>Lafone Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/42/156.|D7602099}} f. 183.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=George Arthur Hardinge|nick=The Hon. George A. Hardinge|appt=4 July, 1905<ref>Hardinge Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42/187.|D7602126}} f. 219.</ref>{{NLDec05|p. 272}}|end=2 July, 1906<ref>Hardinge Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42/187.|D7602126}} f. 219.</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=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>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=John Campbell Watson|nick=John C. Watson|appt=28 January, 1908{{NLOct08|p. 273}}|end=c. March, 1909}}
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{{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 [[Annual Manoeuvres of 1910]]}}
 
{{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}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Alan Geoffrey Hotham|nick=Alan G. Hotham|appt=23 May, 1911{{NLMar13|p. 273}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=William Werden Wilson|nick=William W. Wilson|appt=22 November, 1910<ref>Wilson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/286.|D7603071}} f. 321.</ref>{{NLApr11|p. 273}}|end=1 May, 1911<ref>Wilson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/286.|D7603071}} f. 321.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Alan Geoffrey Hotham|nick=Alan G. Hotham|appt=23 May, 1911<ref>Hotham Service Record {{TNA|ADM 196/44/184.|D7576598}} f. 184.</ref>{{NLMar13|p. 273}}|end=3 October, 1913<ref>Hotham Service Record {{TNA|ADM 196/44/184.|D7576598}} f. 184.</ref>}}
 
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Latest revision as of 09:07, 24 April 2022

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]

She arrived at St. Vincent under Hotham's command on 29 July, 1913.[8]

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. ↑ "Naval And Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), Thursday, Jul 31, 1913; pg. 12; Issue 40278.
  9. ↑ "The Naval Manœuvres". The Times. Monday, 10 July, 1893. Issue 33999, col D, p. 10.
  10. ↑ Groome Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38/458. f. 544.
  11. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1897). p. 196.
  12. ↑ Groome Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38/458. f. 544.
  13. ↑ "The Naval Review at Spithead". The Times. Wednesday, 9 June, 1897. Issue 35225, col D, p. 10.
  14. ↑ Tudor Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/19. f. 281.
  15. ↑ Tudor Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/19. f. 281.
  16. ↑ "The Naval Mobilization". The Times. Monday, 10 July, 1899. Issue 35877, col C, p. 10.
  17. ↑ Moggridge Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/19. f. 421.
  18. ↑ Moggridge Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/19. f. 421.
  19. ↑ Fleet Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38. f. 101.
  20. ↑ Fleet Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38. f. 101.
  21. ↑ The Navy List. (May, 1903). p. 221.
  22. ↑ Greet Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/19. f. 483.
  23. ↑ Lafone Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42/156. f. 183.
  24. ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1904). p. 272.
  25. ↑ Lafone Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42/156. f. 183.
  26. ↑ Hardinge Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42/187. f. 219.
  27. ↑ The Monthly Navy List. (December, 1905). p. 272.
  28. ↑ Hardinge Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42/187. f. 219.
  29. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1907). p. 272.
  30. ↑ Dent Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 50.
  31. ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1908). p. 273.
  32. ↑ Woollcombe Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 267.
  33. ↑ Woollcombe Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 267.
  34. ↑ Miller Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42/382. f. 456.
  35. ↑ Miller Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42/382. f. 456.
  36. ↑ Wilson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/286. f. 321.
  37. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1911). p. 273.
  38. ↑ Wilson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/286. f. 321.
  39. ↑ Hotham Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/44/184. f. 184.
  40. ↑ The Navy List. (March, 1913). p. 273.
  41. ↑ Hotham Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/44/184. f. 184.

See Also

Footnotes

Bibliography


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