Eclipse-class cruiser
For other ships with the same name, see
HMS Juno
.
Juno
circa. 1901
|
History
|
United Kingdom
|
Name
| HMS
Juno
|
Namesake
| Juno
|
Builder
| Naval Construction & Armaments Co.,
Barrow-in-Furness
|
Laid down
| 22 June 1894
|
Launched
| 16 November 1895
|
Completed
| 16 June 1897
|
Fate
| Sold for
scrap
, 24 September 1920
|
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)
|
Installed power
| |
Propulsion
| 2 shafts, 2
Inverted triple-expansion steam engines
|
Speed
| Max 18.5
knots
(34.3 km/h; 21.3 mph), 16
knots
(30 km/h; 18 mph) sustained.
|
Complement
| 450
|
Armament
| |
Armour
| |
HMS
Juno
was an
Eclipse
-class
protected cruiser
built for the
Royal Navy
in the mid-1890s.
Construction
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In 1899,
Juno
was equipped with wireless, and took part in the Summer Manoeuvres of that year. She relayed a message from
HMS
Europa
to
HMS
Alexandra
over a distance of 95 miles, the longest ship to ship transmission to date.
[1]
Service
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In late March 1900 she was sent to
Algiers
to bring back to the United Kingdom the remains of Field Marshal
Sir Donald Stewart, 1st Baronet
, who had died there earlier that month.
[2]
In 1901, she was one of two escort ships for
HMS
Ophir
, which carried the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York (later
King George V
and
Queen Mary
) during their tour of the
British Empire
.
[3]
The following year she served in the cruiser squadron. In May 1902 she was taken into
Portsmouth
for a refit,
[4]
and the following month Captain
David Beatty
was appointed in command.
[5]
She took part in the
fleet review
held at
Spithead
on 16 August 1902 for the
coronation
of King
Edward VII
,
[6]
and visited the
Aegean Sea
for combined manoeuvres with other ships of the Channel squadron and Mediterranean Fleet the following month.
[7]
After returning to Portsmouth in October,
[8]
she carried the
Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland
and Lady Dudley on a visit to
Waterford
on 29 October.
[9]
She was posted to the
Mediterranean Fleet
later that year, but Beatty paid her off not long after.
At the beginning of
World War I
Juno
was assigned to the 11th Cruiser Squadron operating from Ireland.
[10]
In 1915 she was sent to the Persian Gulf and took part in an engagement at
Bushire
in July ? August 1915 against
Tangistani
raids under
Rais Ali Delvari
.
On Friday 7 May 1915,
Juno
was returning to Queenstown, Ireland. At this point, she was considered very vulnerable to U-boats, being capable of only a sustained cruising speed of 16 knots. Having received warning of submarine activity in the area, the cruiser took evasive action and eventually returned to port. The
RMS
Lusitania
was sunk by a
U-boat
later that day. Juno broke orders to go to the rescue but turned around before she left harbour.
[11]
In November 1916
Juno
carried
Abdulaziz bin Abdul Rahman Al Saud
to Bushire to visit
Sir Percy Cox
, the British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf.
[12]
Juno
was sold for scrap in 1920.
References
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- 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
.
- 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
.
- Leckie, Halton Sterling (1914).
The King's Ships: Vol. III
. London: Horace Muirhead.
- 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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