HMS Venus (1895)
_IWM_Q_021897.jpg) Venus at anchor during World War I
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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Venus |
| Namesake | Venus |
| Builder | Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering, Govan |
| Laid down | 28 June 1894 |
| Launched | 5 September 1895 |
| Completed | 9 November 1897 |
| Fate | Sold for scrap, 22 September 1921 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Eclipse-class protected cruiser |
| Displacement | 5,600 long tons (5,690 t) |
| Length | 350 ft (106.7 m) |
| Beam | 53 ft 6 in (16.3 m) |
| Draught | 20 ft 6 in (6.25 m) |
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| Propulsion | 2 shafts, 2 Inverted triple-expansion steam engines |
| Speed | 18.5 knots (34.3 km/h; 21.3 mph) |
| Complement | 450 |
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HMS Venus was an Eclipse-class protected cruiser built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1890s.
Design
Eclipse-class second-class protected cruisers were preceded by the shorter
She carried five 40-
Service history
Venus was
She was recommissioned in early 1903 with the crew of HMS Australia, whose duties as coastguard ship at Southampton she took over.[11] During this period she was also used as a training ship for naval cadets.
During 1906, Venus was frequently used to patrol waters near Alexandria, and was involved in preventing a mutiny at Port Said.[12]
In 1908 Venus attended the Quebec Tercentenary in Canada.[13] She joined the 3rd Fleet at Pembroke in 1913 and went to Portsmouth in 1914. Joined the 11th Cruiser Squadron in Ireland in August 1914; captured two German merchantmen in October and lost her foremast in a gale in November 1914. To Egypt 1916; Singapore March 1917; flagship East Indies 1919 until she returned home in May 1919 to pay off.[14]
References
- ^ McBride, pp. 138–39
- ^ McBride, pp. 137–39
- ^ McBride, p. 137
- ^ Friedman, pp. 87–88
- ^ Friedman, p. 92
- ^ Chesneau & Kolesnik, p. 78
- ^ McBride, p. 139
- ^ "Launch of H.M.S "Venus"". The Marine Engineer. Vol. XVII. October 1895. pp. 266–267.
- ^ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times. No. 36397. London. 8 March 1901. p. 10.
- ^ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times. No. 36096. London. 22 March 1900. p. 11.
- ^ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times. No. 36971. London. 7 January 1903. p. 8.
- ^ Egyptian Gazette (1906-09-20). 20 September 1906.
- ^ The Quebec Tercentenary commemorative history
- ^ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906-21
Bibliography
- Chesneau, Roger; Kolesnik, Eugene M., eds. (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. Greenwich, UK: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4.
- ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
- Gardiner, Robert; Gray, Randal, eds. (1985). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-85177-245-5.
- Friedman, Norman (2011). Naval Weapons of World War One. Barnsley, South Yorkshire, UK: Seaforth. ISBN 978-1-84832-100-7.
- McBride, Keith (2012). "The Cruiser Family Talbot". In John Jordan (ed.). Warship 2012. London: Conway. pp. 136–41. ISBN 978-1-84486-156-9.
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