Kingstown, The Harbour, HMS Melampus 1897
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This is a 3400 tons displacement Apollo class cruiser. Completed in the early 1890s, the Apollos, of which there were 21, were rated as second-class protected cruisers and armed with 2 x 6-inch, 6 x 4.7-inch, 8 x 6-pdrs, 1 x 3-pdr and 4 x 14-inch torpedo tubes. Funnel details indicate that this ship may be either the 'Melampus', the 'Naiad' or the 'Latona'. By 1914 only the 'Sappho', the 'Sirius' and the 'Melpomene' (ex 'Indefatigable') were still rated as cruisers; the others had been converted into minelayers.
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