HMS Mildura (1889)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Pelorus and HMAS Mildura.
HMS Mildura at Port Melbourne, May 1901
History
United Kingdom
Name: Pelorus
Namesake:
Builder: Armstrong Whitworth, Elswick, Tyne and Wear
Laid down: 15 Aug 1888
Launched: 27 November 1889
Completed: 20 December 1890
Renamed: Mildura, April 1890
Fate: Sold for scrap, 3 April 1906
General characteristics
Class and type: Pearl-class cruiser
Displacement: 2,575 tons
Length:
  • 278 ft (84.7 m) (oa)
  • 265 ft (80.8 m) (pp)[1]
Beam: 41 ft (12 m)[1]
Draught: 15 ft 6 in (4.7 m)
Installed power:
Propulsion: 2 × screws; 2 × 3-cylinder triple-expansion steam engines[1]
Speed: 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph)
Complement: 210
Armament:
Armour:

HMS Mildura was an Pearl-class cruiser built for the Royal Navy in the late 1880s. Originally named HMS Pelorus, she was renamed after an Australian town in April 1890.[2] Per the Imperial Defense Act of 1887, she served primarily in Australian waters.

Captain Henry Leah was in command from April 1897 until April 1900, when Captain Henry C. A. Baynes arrived in Australia on board the HMS Diana to take command of the ship.[3] She was part of the naval escort for the visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York (later King George V and Queen Mary) to New Zealand aboard the chartered Royal liner HMS Ophir during 1901.[2]

She was sold to Garnham, London for scrap in 1906 for £7,200.[2][4]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Winfield, p. 276
  2. 1 2 3 Bastock, p. 101
  3. ↑ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times (36056). London. 3 February 1900. p. 14.
  4. ↑ History of the World's Navy: Pearl Class

References

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