HMS Orlando (1886)

HMS Orlando (1886)

HMS "Orlando" was the lead ship of the "Orlando"-class of first-class cruisers built in the yards of Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company, Jarrow and launched on August 3, 1886.

She was the flagship of Charles Ramsay Arbuthnot on the Australia Station from 1892 to 1895. During the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, sailors from HMS "Orlando" formed part of the force led by Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Seymour attempting to relieve the British Legation in Beijing. A replica of a bell captured from the Taku Forts forms part of a memorial to HMS "Orlando" in Victoria Park, Portsmouth.

HMS "Orlando" was sold for scrapping on July 11, 1905 to Ward of Morecambe.

References

*Colledge
* Roger Chesneau and Eugene M. Kolesnik, ed., "Conway's All The Worlds Fighting Ships, 1860-1905", (Conway Maritime Press, London, 1979), ISBN 0-85177-133-5

External links

* http://www.memorials.inportsmouth.co.uk/city-centre/orlando.htm
* http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/hms_orlando.htm


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