H.M.S. Retribution (1891)

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H.M.S. Retribution (1891)
Builder: Palmer Shipbuilding and Iron Company, Jarrow[1]
Laid down: 1890[2]
Launched: 6 Aug, 1891[3]
Sold: 1911[4]

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

Service

Retribution left Halifax in company with the cruisers Tribune and Ariadne on 15 August, 1903.[5]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

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. "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), Monday, Aug 17, 1903; pg. 8; Issue 37161.
  6. Barlow Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38. f. 31.
  7. Barlow Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38. f. 31.
  8. The Navy List. (March, 1896). p. 256a.
  9. Ashe Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38/39. f. 44.
  10. Ashe Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38/39. f. 44.
  11. Prothero Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/18. f. 522.
  12. Prothero Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/18. f. 522.
  13. "The Naval Manoeuvres." The Times (London, England), Thursday, July 11, 1901, Issue 36504, p.8.
  14. Lyon Service Record at The National Archives. ADM 196/19. f. 446.
  15. Lyon Service Record at The National Archives. ADM 196/19. f. 446.

Bibliography


Apollo Class Second Class Protected Cruiser
Æolus Andromache Apollo Brilliant Indefatigable
Intrepid Iphigenia Latona Melampus Naiad
Pique Rainbow Retribution Sappho Scylla
  Sirius Spartan Sybille  
  Terpsichore Thetis Tribune  
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