JUNO HMS 1897

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JUNO HMS 1897

Post by aukepalmhof » Mon Feb 15, 2016 7:49 pm

Was built as a protected cruiser under yard No 239 by Naval Construction & Armaments Co., Barrow-in-Furness for the Royal Navy.
29 August 1894 keel laid down.
16 November 1895 launched as the HMS JUNO one of the Eclipse class.
Displacement 5,690 ton full load, dim. 106.7 x 16.3 x 6.25m. (draught).
Powered by two inverted triple expansion steam engines, 9,600 ihp, twin shafts, speed 19.5 knots.
Armament: 5 – 6 inch QF, 6 – 4.7 inch QF, 6 – 3 pdr. guns, 3 – 18 inch torpedo tubes.
Crew 450
15 June 1897 commissioned.

After commissioned she became a unit of the Channel Fleet.
In 1901, she was one of two escort ships for HMS Ophir, which carried the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York (later King George V and Queen Mary) during their tour of the British Empire.
The following year she served in the cruiser squadron under the command of Captain Henry Peter Routh. In May 1902 she was taken into Portsmouth for a refit, and the following month Captain David Beatty was appointed in command. She served in the 1902 Coronation review before she was posted to the Mediterranean Fleet later that year.
May 1908 she underwent a refit in Portsmouth.
20 January 1913 recommissioned at Chatham and in mid-1913 attached to the Ninth Destroyer Flotilla. Soon replaced by the HMS SENTINEL and the JUNO was reduced to Reserve Commission at Chatham on 30 June 1913.
JUNO was assigned to the 11th Cruiser Squadron operating from Ireland, when World War I started. She was patrolling the trade routes to the west. On 17 February 1915 became she the flagship of Admiral H.L.A. Hood of Cruiser Force E till 05 April 1915.
In July 1915 she was sent to the Persian Gulf where her Captain Wake was to serve as Senior Naval Officer of a squadron which had to deal with a German inspired threat to crucial Persian oil supplies, and she took part in an engagement at Bushire in July – August 1915 against Tangistani raids under Rais Ali Delvari.
She remained on the East Indies station until the end of the war. During March 1917 she patrolled the area between Colombo and Bombay. During the cruise of the German raider WOLF she was sent to the Maldives to confirm a report that two steamers with a seaplane had recently visited the island.
After the war she returned to the U.K. and was paid off.
JUNO was sold for scrap on 24 September 1920 to Earle who resold her to Petersen & Albeck in Denmark for scrapping.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Juno_(1895)
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