&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:HMCS_Rainbow_dressed_North_Vancouver_1910.jpg) HMCS Rainbow in 1910
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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | Rainbow |
| Builder | Palmers, Hebburn |
| Laid down | 1890 |
| Launched | 25 March 1891 |
| Commissioned | 1892 |
| Decommissioned | 1909 |
| Stricken | 1909 |
| Fate | Transferred to Canada |
 Canada | |
| Name | Rainbow |
| Commissioned | 4 August 1910 |
| Decommissioned | 1 June 1920 |
| Stricken | 1 June 1920 |
| Fate | Scrapped 1920 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Apollo-class protected cruiser |
| Displacement | 3,600 long tons (3,700 t) |
| Length | 314 ft (95.7 m) |
| Beam | 43.5 ft (13.3 m) |
| Draught | 17.5 ft (5.3 m) |
| Propulsion | 2 shaft, 2-cylinder triple expansion, 7,000 ihp (5,200 kW) natural draught |
| Speed | 19.75 knots (36.58 km/h; 22.73 mph) |
| Range | 8,000 nmi (15,000 km; 9,200 mi) at 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement | 273 |
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HMCS Rainbow was an Apollo-class protected cruiser built for Great Britain's Royal Navy as HMS Rainbow entering service in 1892. Rainbow saw time in Asian waters before being placed in reserve in 1909. In 1910 the cruiser was transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy for service on the west coast. At the outbreak of the First World War, Rainbow was the only major Canadian or British warship on the western coast of North America. Due to age, the cruiser was taken out of service in 1917 and sold for scrap in 1920 and broken up.