HMS Hyacinth

HMS Hyacinth was one of three Highflyer-class protected cruisers built for the Royal Navy in the 1890s. Initially assigned to the Channel Fleet, she spent much of her early career as flagship for the East Indies Station. She was reduced to reserve in 1912 after a lengthy refit before becoming the flagship of the Cape of Good Hope Station in 1913. After the beginning of World War I in August 1914, she spent the first few months of the war escorting convoys around South Africa. In early 1915, she was deployed to German East Africa to blockade the German light cruiser SMS Königsberg. She destroyed a German blockade runner attempting to bring supplies through the blockade in April and sank a German merchant vessel in early 1916. Hyacinth remained on the Cape Station for the rest of the war and was paid off in 1919, although she was not sold for scrap until 1923.

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1898  Wikimedia, Wikidata
speed 20 knot, 
cruiser, Highflyer-class cruiser, Royal Navy, London and Glasgow Shipbuilding Company, 

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1898 HMS Hyacinth

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World War I

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ship completed

1897-01-21T00:00:00Z

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keel laying

1919-08-01T00:00:00Z

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ship decommissioning

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ship launching

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Frameless

HMS Hyacinth 1915 AWM P01236.016

Type	Subtype	Date	Description	Notes	Source
link	page		Dreadnought Project page@		Wikidata
link	page		naval-history.net page@		Wikidata
commons	image		HMS Hyacinth 1915 AWM P01236.016		Commons