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The Naval Defence Act 1889 resulted in orders being placed for 21 second-class protected cruisers of the Apollo-class, of which, two, HMS Sirius and HMS Spartan, were ordered from Armstrong's Elswick shipyard. [2] Sirius had an overall length of 300 ft (91.4 m) a beam of 43 ft 8 in (13.31 m) and a draught of 18 ft 6 in (5.64 m). Displacement ...
Apollo, a British paddle passenger-cargo ship, scrapped in 1885 [2] Apollo, a British screw passenger-cargo ship, sunk in collision on 7 March 1882 [3] Apollo, a British-built Austrian passenger-cargo ship, scrapped in 1908 [4] Apollo, a German cargo ship seized as prize in 1945 and renamed Empire Taff
Twenty-one ships of this class were ordered under the 1889 Naval Defence Act, making up half of the Act's required forty-two cruisers. The obvious limitations of the Apollo s led to a further enlarged & improved design (the Astraea class ) being drawn up by White, of which eight units were also ordered under the Naval Defence Act.
HMS Apollo, the sixth ship of the Royal Navy to be named for the Greek god Apollo, was a second-class Apollo-class protected cruiser launched in 1891 and converted to a minelayer in 1909 along with six of her sisters.
During the tour she had encountered the barque Oxford in distress, and brought the crew of 16 to safety as the ship was leaking. [2] She paid off at Portsmouth on 8 February 1900. [3] On 27 June 1900 Latona was ordered to be specially commissioned for a naval mobilization, to take place in July.
From 1803 she made two voyages as a Liverpool-based slave ship. The French captured her in port at Dominica in 1805. Apollo (1812 EIC ship) was launched at Hull. She made three voyages for the British East India Company (EIC) as a regular ship. She continued to trade with India under licence from the EIC until she was wrecked near Cape Town in ...
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The Apollo-class sailing frigates were a series of twenty-seven ships that the British Admiralty commissioned be built to a 1798 design by Sir William Rule. Twenty-five served in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, two being launched too late. Of the 25 ships that served during the Napoleonic Wars, only one was lost to enemy action.