HMS_Pandora_(1889)

HMS <i>Katoomba</i>

HMS Katoomba

Pearl-class cruiser

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Pandora and HMAS Katoomba.

HMS Katoomba was a Pearl-class cruiser built for the Royal Navy, originally named HMS Pandora, built by Armstrong Whitworth, Elswick, Tyne and Wear and launched on 27 August 1889.[2] Renamed on 2 April 1890, as Katoomba as the flagship of the Auxiliary Squadron of the Australia Station. She arrived in Sydney with the squadron on 5 September 1891. She was damaged in a collision with the tug Yatala in Port Adelaide on 29 December 1891.[3] She left the Australia Station on 16 January 1906. She was sold for £8500 on 10 July 1906 and broken up at Morecambe.[2]

A Pearl-class cruiser from Brassey's Naval Annual, 1897
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Notes

  1. [1]
    Winfield, p. 276
  2. [2]
    Bastock 1988, p. 101.
  3. [3]
    "The Katoomba-Yatala Collision, The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA), Thursday 31 December 1891, p.6". Advertiser. 31 December 1891. Retrieved 4 October 2010.

References

  • Bastock, John (1988). Ships on the Australia Station. Frenchs Forest, Australia: Child & Associates. ISBN 0-86777-348-0.
  • Brook, Peter (1999). Warships for Export: Armstrong Warships 1867–1927. Gravesend, Kent, UK: World Ship Society. ISBN 0-905617-89-4.
  • Winfield, R.; Lyon, D. (2004). The Sail and Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815–1889. London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-032-6. OCLC 52620555.


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