Annual Manoeuvres of 1893

The Royal Navy's Annual Manoeuvres of 1893 involved a number of ships called into special commission on 11 July.

Order of Battle

Sheerness Command

• second class protected cruiser Andromache Captain George Fowler King-Hall
• second class protected cruiser Apollo Captain George Anson Primrose
• third class protected cruiser Barracouta Commander Philip Francis Tillard
• second class battleship Benbow Captain Burges Watson, Commander The Hon. Walter George Stopford
• first class protected cruiser Blenheim Captain William Henry Hall (lent), Commander Reginald Purves Cochran
• second class protected cruiser Brilliant Captain Edmund Samuel Poë
• torpedo gunboat Circe Commander Henry Joseph Keane
• torpedo gunboat Gleaner Commander Leslie Creery Stuart
• torpedo gunboat Gossamer Commander Rowland Edward Berkeley
• torpedo gunboat Grasshopper Lieutenant & Commander Arthur Barry (lent)
• torpedo gunboat Jaseur Commander Stanley Talbot Dean-Pitt
• torpedo gunboat Jason Commander Frederick Gilbert Charles Langdon
• gunboat Raven Lieutenant & Commander Alexander Eckstein Stewart
• torpedo gunboat Salamander Commander Algernon Horatio Anson
• second class protected cruiser Sappho Captain Henry Charles Bigge
• torpedo gunboat Sheldrake Commander Alfred Fulling Welldon
• torpedo gunboat Skipjack Commander James Pipon Montgomery
• second class protected cruiser Terpsichore Captain Arthur Calvert Clarke
• second class protected cruiser Tribune Captain Robert Leonard Groome
• T.B. 63 Sub-lieutenant in Command Cecil Henry Fox (lent)
• T.B. 64 acting Sub-lieutenant in Command John Barff Hancock (lent)
• T.B. 67 Lieutenant & Commander George Barrett (lent; recorded as "George H. Barrett" in The Times)
• T.B. 68 acting Sub-lieutenant in Command Hubert Henry Holland (lent)
• T.B. 72 Lieutenant & Commander (T) Dudley Rawson Stratford de Chair (lent)
• T.B. 73 Sub-lieutenant in Command Arthur Edward Phillips

Portsmouth Command

• third class protected cruiser Barossa Commander John Edward Bearcroft
• second class battleship Hero Captain George Lambart Atkinson, Commander Thomas Philip Walker
• second class protected cruiser Indefatigable Captain Richard Bingham
• second class protected cruiser Intrepid Captain John Salwey Hallifax
• second class protected cruiser Iphigenia Captain Francis Charles Bridgeman Bridgeman-Simpson
• second class protected cruiser Iris Captain John Harvey Rainier
• special service vessel Magnet Lieutenant & Commander James Webber (lent)
• second class protected cruiser Naiad, Captain Michael Pelham O'Callaghan
• torpedo gunboat Rattlesnake, Lieutenant & Commander Lewis Bayly (lent)
• torpedo gunboat Seagull Lieutenant & Commander (T) Arthur Ward Torlesse (lent)
• T.B. 59 Lieutenant & Commander Clement Greatorex (lent)
• T.B. 60 Sub-lieutenant in Command Arthur Kipling Waistell
• T.B. 66 acting Sub-lieutenant in Command Henry Strickland (lent)
• T.B. 77 acting Sub-lieutenant in Command Thomas Parry Bonham (lent)
• T.B. 79 Lieutenant & Commander Gordon Colquhoun Fraser (lent)
• T.B. 81 Lieutenant & Commander (T) Reginald Hugh Spencer Bacon (lent)
• T.B. 82 Lieutenant & Commander William Reginald Hall (lent)
• T.B. 83 Lieutenant & Commander Sir Robert Keith Arbuthnot
• T.B. 84 Lieutenant & Commander George Walter Smith (lent)

Devonport Command

• second class protected cruiser Æolus Captain Walter Hodgson Bevan Graham
• gunvessel Curlew Commander John Locke Marx
• second class battleship Conqueror Captain Sir Baldwin Wake Walker, Commander Frederick Henry Peere Williams Freeman
• second class protected cruiser Forth Captain Charles Philip Giffin Hicks, Commander William Francis Tunnard
• second class protected cruiser Pique Captain Orford Churchill
• second class protected cruiser Rainbow Captain Count Frederick Cosmeto Metaxa
• second class protected cruiser Retribution Captain Charles James Barlow
• torpedo gunboat Spider Lieutenant & Commander Henry John Oldfield (lent)
• second class protected cruiser Thames Captain Robert William Craigie, Commander Ian Mackenzie Fraser
• ex-tug and special service vessel Traveller Lieutenant & Commander Richard Archibald Cathie (lent)
• T.B. 34 Lieutenant & Commander Spencer Allen Hickley (lent)
• T.B. 45 Sub-lieutenant in Command Robert Gwynne Corbett
• T.B. 52 Sub-lieutenant in Command Louis Charles Stirling Woollcombe
• T.B. 53 acting Sub-lieutenant in Command Berkeley Holme-Sumner (lent)
• T.B. 57 Sub-lieutenant in Command Henry Rawdon Veale
• T.B. 58 Lieutenant & Commander Cecil Irby Prowse
• T.B. 80 Lieutenant & Commander (T) William Lowther Grant (lent)
• T.B. 85 Lieutenant & Commander Thomas Legge Barnardiston (lent)
• T.B. 87 Lieutenant & Commander Robert Falcon Scott (lent)