Apollo-class cruiser

Class overview
HMS Spartan, pictured in Norwegian waters in 1904
Name:	Apollo class
Operators:	Royal Navy Royal Canadian Navy
Preceded by:	Pearl class
Succeeded by:	Astraea class
Built:	1889–1892
In commission:	1889–1931
Completed:	21
Lost:	5
General characteristics
Type:	Protected cruiser
Displacement:	3,600 long tons (3,700 t)
Length:	314 ft (96 m)
Beam:	43 ft 6 in (13.26 m)
Draught:	17 ft 6 in (5.33 m)
Speed:	19.75 knots (22.73 mph; 36.58 km/h)
Complement:	273 to 300 officers and men
Armament:	2 × 6-inch (152 mm) QF guns 6 × QF 4.7-inch (120 mm) guns^[1] 8 × 6-pounder guns 2 to 4 × 14 in (360 mm) torpedo tubes

Right elevation and deck plan as depicted in Brassey's Naval Annual 1897

The Apollo class were a class of second-class protected cruisers built for the Royal Navy in the late 19th century that served during the Boer War and the First World War.

Latona, Apollo, Intrepid, Iphigenia, Andromache, Naiad and Thetis were converted into minelaying cruisers around 1907.

Service

Twenty-one of the Apollo class of second-class cruisers were built under the 1889 Naval Defence Act, along with eight to a modified design (the Astraea class).

By the last year of the First World War, the surviving ships were outdated, and six of this class were converted into blockships to be scuttled in the entrances to enemy-occupied ports in Belgium. The cruisers Intrepid, Iphigenia and Thetis were expended on 23 April 1918 in the raid on Zeebrugge; Brilliant and Sirius were unsuccessfully expended in the similar raid on Ostend. A further attempt to block Ostend took place in May, with Sappho and Vindictive (the latter being of the Arrogant class) as blockships, but Sappho broke down en route to Ostend and returned to port.

Ships

*Apollo*-class cruisers
Name	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Completed	Fate
Andromache	Chatham Dockyard	29 April 1889	14 August 1890	December 1891	Broken up in 1920
Apollo	Chatham Dockyard	27 May 1889	10 February 1891	April 1892	Broken up in 1920
Latona	Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness	22 August 1889	22 May 1890	April 1891	Sold in 1920
Melampus	Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness	30 August 1889	2 August 1890	December 1891	Broken up in 1910
Naiad	Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness	3 October 1889	29 November 1890	January 1892	Broken up in 1922
Sappho	Samuda Brothers, Poplar	29 October 1889	9 May 1891	February 1893	Broken up in 1921
Scylla	Samuda Brothers, Poplar	29 October 1889	17 October 1891	April 1893	Broken up in 1914
Sybille	Robert Stephenson, Hebburn	11 October 1889	27 December 1890	May 1894	Wrecked in 1901
Terpsichore	J & G Thomson, Clydebank	27 August 1889	30 October 1890	April 1892	Broken up in 1914
Thetis	J & G Thomson, Clydebank	29 October 1889	13 December 1890	April 1892	Expended as blockship in 1918
Tribune	J & G Thomson, Clydebank	11 December 1889	24 February 1891	May 1892	Broken up in 1911
Aeolus	Devonport Dockyard	19 March 1890	13 November 1891	June 1893	Broken up in 1914
Brilliant	Sheerness Dockyard	24 March 1890	24 June 1891	April 1893	Expended as blockship in 1918
Indefatigable	London & Glasgow	6 September 1889	12 March 1891	April 1892	Broken up in 1913
Intrepid	London & Glasgow	6 September 1889	20 June 1891	November 1892	Expended as blockship in 1918
Iphigenia	London & Glasgow	17 March 1890	19 November 1891	May 1893	Expended as blockship in 1918
Pique	Palmers, Jarrow	30 October 1889	13 December 1890	March 1893	Broken up in 1911
Rainbow	Palmers, Jarrow	30 December 1889	25 March 1891	January 1893	1910 to Royal Canadian Navy as HMCS Rainbow. Sold in 1920
Retribution	Palmers, Jarrow	31 January 1890	6 August 1891	May 1893	Broken up in 1911
Sirius	Armstrong Mitchell, Elswick	7 October 1889	27 October 1890	April 1892	Expended as blockship in 1918
Spartan	Armstrong Mitchell, Elswick	16 December 1889	25 February 1891	July 1892	Broken up in 1931
Sources: Conway's 1860–1905, p. 77; Jane's, p. 62

Notes

↑ Scott, Percy (1919). Fifty Years in the Royal Navy. London: John Murray. p. 88.

Publications

Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.

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Apollo-class cruisers

Royal Navy	Latona Melampus Andromache Sirius Terpsichore Naiad Pique Thetis Sybille Apollo Tribune Spartan Indefatigable Rainbow Sappho Intrepid Brilliant Retribution Scylla Aeolus Iphigenia

Royal Canadian Navy	Rainbow

Preceded by: Marathon class Followed by: Astraea class

List of cruisers of the Royal Navy

British naval ship classes of the First World War

Aircraft/Seaplane carriers	Empress^S^V Riviera^S^V Engadine^S^V Ark Royal^S Ben-my-Chree^S^V Campania^S^V Raven II^S^V Anne^S^V Vindex^S^V Manxman^S^V Furious^M Pegasus^S^V Nairana^S^V Argus^S^V Vindictive^S^V

Dreadnought battleships	Dreadnought^S Bellerophon St Vincent Neptune^S Colossus Orion King George V Erin^S Agincourt^S Iron Duke Canada^S Queen Elizabeth Revenge

Pre-dreadnought battleships	Royal Sovereign Majestic Canopus Formidable Duncan King Edward VII Swiftsure Lord Nelson

Battlecruisers	Invincible Indefatigable Lion Queen Mary^S Tiger^S Renown Courageous Admiral^S^C Incomparable^X

Armoured cruisers	Cressy Drake Monmouth Devonshire Duke of Edinburgh Warrior Minotaur

Heavy cruisers	Hawkins

Light cruisers	Town^G Arethusa C^{G, C} Danae^C Emerald^A

Protected cruisers	Apollo Astraea Eclipse Blake Pearl Edgar Powerful Diadem Arrogant Pelorus Highflyer Challenger Topaze

Scout cruisers	Adventure Forward Pathfinder Sentinel Boadicea Blonde Active

Destroyer flotilla leaders	Swift^S Faulknor Marksman Parker Admiralty (or Scott)^C Thornycroft (or Shakespeare)^C

Destroyers	A^G B^G C^G D^G E^G F Cricket^G G H I K L Admiralty M Hawthorn M Thornycroft M Yarrow M Yarrow Later M R^G S^{G, C} Talisman V and W^{G, C}

Monitors	Marshal Ney Abercrombie Lord Clive Humber Gorgon M15 M29 Erebus

Minesweepers	Flower Racecourse Hunt 24^C

Gunboats	Fly Insect

Submarines	A B C D E F G H^C J K L^C M^C R^C Swordfish^S V

A All completed after the war C One or more completed after the war G Grouping of several classes M converted from Courageous class S Single ship of class V Conversions X Cancelled

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