.jpg) HMAS Pioneer off East Africa in 1916
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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | Pioneer |
| Builder | Chatham Dockyard, Kent |
| Laid down | 16 December 1897 |
| Launched | 28 June 1899 |
| Completed | 23 January 1900 |
| Commissioned | 10 July 1900 |
| Decommissioned | 29 November 1912 |
| Fate | Transferred to Australia, 28 November 1912 |
| Australia | |
| Name | Pioneer |
| Acquired | 28 November 1912 |
| Commissioned | 1 March 1913 |
| Decommissioned | 7 November 1916 |
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| Fate | Scuttled, 18 February 1931 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Pelorus-class cruiser |
| Displacement | 2,200 long tons (2,200 t) |
| Length | |
| Beam | 36 ft 9 in (11.20 m) |
| Draught | 15 ft (4.6 m) |
| Propulsion | Triple expansion engines, 2 shafts, 5,000 ihp (3,728 kW) |
| Speed | 19.5 knots (36.1 km/h; 22.4 mph) |
| Complement | 225 as designed |
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HMAS Pioneer (formerly HMS Pioneer) was a Pelorus-class protected cruiser built for the Royal Navy at the end of the 19th century. She was transferred to the fledgling Royal Australian Navy (RAN) in 1912. During World War I, the cruiser captured two German merchant ships, and was involved in the East African Campaign, including the blockade of the cruiser SMS Königsberg and a bombardment of Dar-es-Salaam. She returned to Australia in late 1916 and was decommissioned. Pioneer was used as an accommodation ship for the following six years, then was stripped down and sold off by 1926. The cruiser was scuttled outside Sydney Heads in 1931.