![]() Painting of HMS Ringarooma c. 1891
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Name | HMS Psyche |
Builder | J & G Thomson, Glasgow |
Launched | 10 December 1889 |
Renamed | Ringarooma (1890) |
Fate | Sold in May 1906 for breaking up |
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Class and type | Pearl-class cruiser |
Displacement | 2,575 tons |
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Beam | 41 ft (12 m)[1] |
Draught | 15 ft 6 in (4.72 m) |
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Speed | 19 knots (35 km/h) |
Complement | 217 |
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HMS Ringarooma was a Pearl-class cruiser of the Royal Navy, originally named HMS Psyche, built by J & G Thomson, Glasgow and launched on 10 December 1889.[2] Renamed on 2 April 1890, as Ringarooma as part of the Auxiliary Squadron of the Australia Station. She arrived in Sydney with the squadron on 5 September 1891. She was damaged after running aground on a reef at Makelula Island, New Hebrides on 31 August 1894 and was pulled off by the French cruiser Duchaffault.[2] Between 1897 and 1900 she was in reserve at Sydney. On 15 February Captain Frederick St. George Rich was appointed in command.[3] She left the Australia Station on 22 August 1904. She was sold for £8500 in May 1906 to Forth Shipbreaking Company for breaking up.[2]
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