HMS ''Mildura'' was a built for the
Royal Navy
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in the late 1880s. Originally named HMS ''Pelorus'', she was renamed after an Australian town in April 1890.
[Bastock, p. 101] Per the Imperial Defense Act of 1887, she served primarily in
Australian waters.
Captain
Henry Leah was in command from April 1897 until April 1900, when Captain
Henry C. A. Baynes arrived in Australia on board to take command of the ship. He was succeeded by Captain
Charles Kingsmill
Admiral Sir Charles Edmund Kingsmill, (7 July 1855 – 15 July 1935) was a Canadian-born naval officer and the first director of the Department of the Naval Service of Canada. After retiring from a career in the Royal Navy, he played a prominen ...
in September 1900. She was part of the naval escort for the visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York (later
King George V
George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until his death in 1936.
George was born during the reign of his pa ...
and
Queen Mary) to New Zealand aboard the chartered Royal liner
HMS ''Ophir'' during 1901.
With (
flagship
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) and , she visited
Norfolk Island
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in July 1902,
Suva
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,
Fiji
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the following month, and
Tonga
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in September.
She was sold to Garnham, London for
scrap
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in 1906 for £7,200.
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1889 ships
Ships built by Armstrong Whitworth
Ships built on the River Tyne
Pearl-class cruisers
Victorian-era cruisers of the United Kingdom
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