HMS Diadem (1896)
HMS Diadem
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| Name: | Diadem |
| Operator: | Royal Navy |
| Builder: | Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Govan |
| Laid down: | 23 January 1896 |
| Launched: | 21 October 1896 |
| Christened: | Lady Currie |
| Fate: | Sold 9 May 1921 |
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| Class and type: | Diadem-class cruiser |
| Displacement: | 11,000 tons |
| Length: | 435 ft (133 m) (462 ft 6 in (140.97 m) o/a) |
| Beam: | 69 ft (21 m) |
| Draught: | 25 ft 6 in (7.77 m) |
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| Speed: | 20 - 20.5 knots |
| Complement: | 760 |
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HMS Diadem was the lead ship of the Diadem-class of protected cruiser in the Royal Navy.
Diadem was built by Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd at Govan. She was laid down on 23 January 1896, and launched on 21 October 1896, when she was named by Lady Currie, wife of Castle Line shipowner Sir Donald Currie.
She served in the Easter Division of the Channel Squadron under the command of Captain H. S. F. Niblett, and was briefly docked at Chatham in January 1900 to make good defects.
In March 1901 Diadem was one of two cruisers to escort HMS Ophir, commissioned as royal yacht for the world tour of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York (later King George and Queen Mary), from Spithead to Gibraltar, and in September the same year she again escorted the royal yacht from St Vincent to Halifax, Nova Scotia. In January 1902 it was announced that she would be put out of commission due to "defects which will take some time to remedy". She was paid off at Chatham on 11 February 1902, and in May transported to Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company in Glasgow for repairs to her hull and machinery.
The ship was reactivated and sent to China Station where Diadem became the flagship of the vice-admiral until 1907. The vessel then returned home and was paid off in April 1907. She was then assigned to the Home Fleet based at Portsmouth from 1907-1912 before transferring to the Third Fleet. The ship was refitted in 1909.
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