&sq=&lang=&file=File:HMS_Philomel_(1890).jpg) HMS Philomel in New Zealand service
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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | Philomel |
| Builder | HM Naval Dockyard, Plymouth |
| Launched | 28 August 1890 |
| Commissioned | 1890 |
| Decommissioned | 1941 |
| Fate | Formally transferred to Royal New Zealand Navy |
| New Zealand | |
| Commissioned | 1941 |
| Decommissioned | 1947 |
| Fate | Sunk at Coromandel 1949 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Pearl-class cruiser |
| Displacement | 2,575 long tons (2,616 t) |
| Length | 278 ft (84.7 m) |
| Beam | 41 ft (12.5 m) |
| Draught | 17 ft 6 in (5.33 m) |
| Installed power | 7,500 ihp (5,600 kW) on forced draught |
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| Speed | 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph) |
| Complement | 220 |
| Armament |
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HMS Philomel, later HMNZS Philomel, was a Pearl-class cruiser. She was the fifth ship of that name and served with the Royal Navy. After her commissioning in 1890, she served on the Cape of Good Hope Station and later with the Mediterranean Fleet.
In 1914, she was loaned to New Zealand for service with what would later become the Royal New Zealand Navy. During the early stages of the First World War she performed convoy escort duties and then carried out operations in the Mediterranean against the Turks. She later conducted patrols in the Red Sea and Persian Gulf.
By 1917, she was worn out and dispatched back to New Zealand where she served as a depot ship in Wellington Harbour for minesweepers. In 1921 she was transferred to the Devonport Naval Base in Auckland for service as a training ship. Decommissioned and sold for scrap in 1947, her hulk was scuttled in 1949.