Built as a protected cruiser by Sheerness Dry-Dock, Sheerness for the Royal Navy.
21 May 1895 keel laid down.
15 December 1896 launched as the HMS PELORUS she was the lead ship of her class.
Displacement 2,135 ton, dim. 95.55 x 11.13 x 4.9m. (draught), length bpp. 91m.
Powered by triple expansion steam engines, 5,000 ihp, twin shafts, speed 20 knots.
Armament: 8 – 4 inch QF, 8 – 3pdr. QF guns and 3 – machine guns. 2 – 18 inch torpedo tubes.
Crew 224.
15 December 1896 commissioned.
HMS PELORUS was the first of the PELORUS-class cruiser, and was laid down at Sheerness dockyard in 1896. Completed and commissioned into the Royal Navy on 15 December the same year, she was designed by Sir William White. Construction cost £154,315. The ship was well armed for her size, but was primarily a workhorse for the overseas fleet.
HMS PELORUS displaced 2,135 tons and had a top speed of 20 knots (37 km/h). She had reciprocating triple expansion engines and Normand water-tube boilers which could give 7,000 horsepower (5,200 kW) for limited periods of time with forced draught, and 5,000 horsepower (3,700 kW) under natural draught. It carried a crew complement of 224 men and it was armed with eight QF 4 inch (102 mm) (25 pounder) guns, eight QF 3 pounder (47-mm) guns, three machine guns, and two 18-inch (450-mm) torpedo tubes.
Service history
PELORUS served in the Channel Fleet under Captain Henry Charles Bertram Hulbert, when in February 1900 she joined the Eastern division of the fleet.
From 1899-1900 she was detached to the Cape of Good Hope Station
In 1901, the ship was stationed at Gibraltar under the command of Commander Ernest Troubridge.
Later that year she got in reserve. The following year she underwent a refit and her boilers were repaired.
In 1906, the ship was assigned to the Cape of Good Hope Station under the command of Commander James C. Tancred. In 1908 the captain was Arthur W Craig.
From 1909 till 1912 in the 3rd Fleet in the U.K.
1912 – 1914 Stationed in the East Indies, where after she returned to the U.K.
1915-1916 Stationed in Gibraltar.
1916 -1918 Depot ship at Souda Bay, Crete.
1919 Returned to the U.K. and was paid off the same year at the Nore.
06 May 1920 sold for scrap and broken up by T.W. Ward Shipbreakers in Grays, Essex.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Pelorus_(1896) and various internet sites.