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Hermes Class light cruisers built
before World War I. Ships in the class were
HMS Hermes, HMS Highflyer, HMS Hyacinth, HMS Challenger and HMS Encounter. |
| HMS
Hermes |
7th April 1898 |
Converted to take seaplanes
in 1912. |
| HMS Highflyer |
4th June 1898 |
Sold for scrapping in June
1921. |
| HMS Hyacinth |
27th October 1898 |
Sold for scrapping in
November 1923. |
| HMS Challenger |
27th May 1902 |
Sold for scrapping on 31st
May 1920. |
| HMS Encounter |
18th June 1902 |
Loaned to the New Zealand
Navy in July 1912 and then transferred permanently in December 1919. She
was scuttled in September 1923. |
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HMS Hermes |
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HMS Hermes, 1899.
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HMS Hermes in 1914 before she was sunk |
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HMS Highflyer |
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HMS
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The fourth “HIGHFLYER” is an 8-gun twin-screw
cruiser, launched at Govan in 1898.
She is of 5600 tons, 10,000 horse-power, and 20 knots speed. Her length, beam, and draught were 350ft., 54ft., and 20ft.
From November 1902 to March 1903 the “Highflyer,”
commanded by Captain Arthur H. Christian flying the flag of Rear-Admiral
Sir Charles Drury, was at the head of the squadron of six ships which
took part in the Somaliland campaign in various coastal capacities.
The ships assisted in landing troops and stores, in transport
work, and in the prevention of delivery of munitions of war to the
enemy. Three officers
attached to the “Highflyer” were landed, and assisted the progress
of the campaign with a wireless telegraphy apparatus. In August
1914 the “Highflyer,” commanded by Captain Henry T. Buller, was
employed on the north -west African coast protecting British trade.
On August 27 she met the German armed ship “Kaiser Wilhelm der
Grosse” off the Oro River, and after a short engagement in which the
“Highflyer” lost one man killed and about six wounded, the German
ship was sunk.
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HMS Highflyer, with HMS Narcissus, 1905.
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HMS Highflyer with SS Marmora, 1916.
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HMS Highflyer, in dock, 1900.
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HMS Highflyer in Muscat of Oman. Picture sent in by Damien Handslip. |
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HMS Hyacinth |
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HMS
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The fifth “HYACINTH” is an 11-gun twin-screw
cruiser, launched at Glasgow in 1898.
She is of 5600 tons, 10,000 horse-power, and 20 knots speed.
Her length, beam, and draught were 350ft., 54ft., and 20ft.
In 1904 the “Hyacinth,” commanded by Captain the Hon.
Horace Hood, and flying the flag of Rear-Admiral George Atkinson-Willes,
was at the head of a squadron of three ships which took part in the
Somaliland campaign. On
April 20th the “Hyacinth,” and “Fox” arrived off the
Gulluli River after dark, and on the following day a small landing party
went ashore under Flag-Captain Hood.
One hundred and twenty-five men of the Hampshire Regiment
accompanied the sailors. The
brigade advanced upon Fort Illig in face from a brisk fire from rifles,
and two old fashioned cannon loaded with mixed iron, and finally carried
the place at the point of the bayonet.
The “Hyacinths’” subsequently cleared the village and some
caves at the bottom of the cliffs. The enemy left between 60 and 70 dead, and the British
re-embarked with a loss of 3 killed and 11 wounded. Fort Illig was then reduced, and the British ships withdrew.
At various dates the “Hyacinth,” while commanded by Captain J.D Dick
and flying the flag of Rear-Admiral E.J.W. Slade, was employed in the
prevention of the gun-running traffic in the Persian Gulf.
760 rifles were captured off the Jagin River on one occasion.
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HMS Challenger |
The Old Challenger was famous for a voyage of exploration round
the world and was used as a police boat in 1902. She was first
commissioned in 1872, and left Portsmouth that December. She called at
Madeira and then went down the coast of Africa and on to Cape Town. She
then went on to the Antarctic regions and back to Melbourne on 17th
March 1874. She left for New Zealand, China and Japan in April then
crossed the Pacific to South America. Passing through the Straits of
Magellen, and calling at Monte Video, she completed her voyage on May
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HMS Challenger as she slides down the slipway at her launch in
1902. She was a second class cruiser of 5,800 tons. The first keel plate
was laid at Chatham on December 1st 1900 by Mrs Atkinson. She was
floated out of dock on May 27th being christened by Mrs Holland, wife of
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HMS Encounter |
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HMS Encounter, 1914.
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HMS Encounter on the slips before her launch in July 1902. |
The Encounter afloat for the first time in 1902. |
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HMS
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The fourth “ENCOUNTER” is an 11-gun twin-screw
cruiser, launched at Devonport in 1903.
She is of 5880 tons, 12,500 horse-power, and 21 knots speed.
Her length, beam, and draught were 355ft., 56ft., and 21ft. In 1912 this
ship was temporarily lent to the Australian government. |
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