HMS Tauranga
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HMS Tauranga was a Pearl-class cruiser of the Royal Navy. The vessel was originally named Phoenix and built by J & G Thomson, Glasgow. She was launched on 28 October 1889. Renamed on 2 April 1890, as Tauranga as part of the Auxiliary Squadron of the Australia Station. She arrived in Sydney with the squadron on 5 September 1891. During the Samoan civil unrest in 1899, she took part in operations with HMS Porpoise and HMS Royalist. Spending between 1901 and 1903 in reserve at Sydney before being assigned to the New Zealand division of the Australia Station. She left the Australia Station on 14 December 1904. She was sold for £8500 in July 1906 to Thomas Ward for breaking up.
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Robert Louis Stevenson, his family and Samoans, and the band of HMS Tauranga at Vailima, ca. 1890
Memorial, Chester Cathedral 3
Memorial to Arthur John Payne in Chester Cathedral| Type | Subtype | Date | Description | Notes | Source |
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| link | page | Dreadnought Project page@ | Wikidata | ||
| commons | image | Robert Louis Stevenson, his family and Samoans, and the band of HMS Tauranga at Vailima, ca. 1890 | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Memorial, Chester Cathedral 3 | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Memorial to Arthur John Payne in Chester Cathedral | Commons | ||
