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Diadem Class cruisers of the Royal Navy. Cruisers in the class were HMS Amphitrite, HMS Diadem, HMS Andromeda, HMS Argonaut, HMS Ariadne, HMS Europa, HMS Niobe and HMS Spartiate HMS Amphitrite, photographed 1904. |
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The Amphitrite ready to be Launched |
The Stern of the Amphitrite |
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The Launch of the Amphitrite, 5th January 1898 |
HMS Amphitrite. |
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HMS Amphitrite. |
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HMS Andromeda |
HMS Andromeda c.1905 |
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The fourth ?Argonaut? is a 16-gun twin-screw cruiser, launched at Govan in 1898. She is of 11,000 tons, 18,000 horsepower, and 20.8 knots speed. Her length, bema, and draught were 435ft, 69ft, and 25ft. This vessel eventually became a training ship for stokers at Portsmouth. |
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HMS Argonaut pictured c.1905. |
HMS Argonaut. |
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The sixth ?Ariadne? is a 16-gun twin-screw cruiser, launched at Clydebank in 1898. She is of 11,000 tons, 18,000 horsepower, and 21 knots speed. Her length, beam, and draught were 435ft, 69ft, and 25ft. In 1902 the ?Ariadne,? commanded by Captain Montagu E. Browning, and flying the flag of Vice-Admiral Sir A.L. Douglas, controlled the arrangements of the blockade of the mostly at Trinidad, the active work of the blockade being entrusted to Commodore R. A. J. Montgomerie, with his broad pennant in ?Charybdis.? |
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HMS Ariadne pictured c.1908 |
HMS Ariadne. |
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In 1902 HMS Ariadne was the flagship on the North America and West Indies Station, where she flew the flag of Vice-Admiral A L Douglas, whose portrait is shown in the top right of the photograph. The Ariadne was an armoured cruiser built at Clydebank in 1896 and launched in 1898. |
Some of the crew from HMS Ariadne pictured c.1909 before she was sunk in 1917. |
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HMS Diadem |
HMS Diadem. |
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Captain Harry S F Niblett of the first-class cruiser HMS Diadem surrounded by his officers c.1900. |
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The fourth ?DIADEM? is a 16-gun twin-screw cruiser launched at Govan in 1896. She is of 11,000 tons, 16,500 horse-power, and 20 knots speed. Her length, beam, and draught were 435ft., 69ft., and 26ft. |
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HMS Europa. |
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HMS Europa pictured circa 1898 |
HMS Europa. |
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HMS Niobe pictured circa 1898 |
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HMS Spartiate |
HMS Spartiate c.1904. |
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HMS Spartiate. |
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