HMS Juno (1895)

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HMS Juno 1901.jpg
Juno circa. 1901
History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Juno
NamesakeJuno
BuilderNaval Construction & Armaments Co., Barrow-in-Furness
Laid down22 June 1894
Launched16 November 1895
Completed16 June 1897
FateSold for scrap, 24 September 1920
General characteristics
Class and type Eclipse-class protected cruiser
Displacement5,600 long tons (5,690 t)
Length350 ft (106.7 m)
Beam53 ft 6 in (16.3 m)
Draught20 ft 6 in (6.25 m)
Installed power
  • 9,600 ihp (7,200 kW)
  • 8 cylindrical boilers
Propulsion2 shafts, 2 Inverted triple-expansion steam engines
Speed18.5 knots (34.3 km/h; 21.3 mph)
Complement450
Armament
  • As built:
  • 5 × QF 6-inch (152 mm) guns
  • 6 × QF 4.7-inch (120 mm) guns
  • 6 × 3-pounder QF guns
  • 3 × 18-inch torpedo tubes
  • After 1905:
  • 11 × six-inch QF guns
  • 9 × 76 mm (3.0 in) QF guns
  • 7 × 3-pounder QF guns
  • 3 × 18-inch torpedo tubes
Armour

HMS Juno was an Eclipse-class protected cruiser built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1890s.

Juno was assigned to the 11th Cruiser Squadron operating from Ireland.

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.[1]

The following year she served in the cruiser squadron under the command of Captain . In May 1902 she was taken into Portsmouth for a refit,[2] and the following month Captain David Beatty was appointed in command.[3] She took part in the fleet review held at Spithead on 16 August 1902 for the coronation of King Edward VII,[4] and visited the Aegean Sea for combined manoeuvres with other ships of the Channel squadron and Mediterranean Fleet the following month.[5] After returning to Portsmouth in October,[6] she carried the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland and Lady Dudley on a visit to Waterford on 29 October.[7] She was posted to the Mediterranean Fleet later that year, but Beatty paid her off not long after.

Juno during the First World War

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. Juno was returning to Queenstown, Ireland. Having received warning of submarine activity off Queenstown, the cruiser took evasive action and eventually returned to port. This warning was not extended to RMS Lusitania, which was sunk by a U Boat on Friday, 7 May 1915.

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.[8]

Juno was sold for scrap in 1920.

Footnotes[]

  1. ^ Leckie 1914, p. 386
  2. ^ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times. No. 36756. London. 1 May 1902. p. 6.
  3. ^ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times. No. 36774. London. 22 May 1902. p. 8.
  4. ^ "The Coronation - Naval Review". The Times. No. 36845. London. 13 August 1902. p. 4.
  5. ^ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times. No. 36880. London. 23 September 1902. p. 8.
  6. ^ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times. No. 36902. London. 18 October 1902. p. 9.
  7. ^ "Ireland". The Times. No. 36912. London. 30 October 1902. p. 10.
  8. ^ "HMS Juno, 2nd class cruiser - British warships of World War 1". www.naval-history.net. Retrieved 8 January 2022.

References[]

  • 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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