Kingstown, The Harbour, HMS Melampus 1897
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This is a 3400 tons displacement Apollo class cruiser. Completed in the early 1890s, the Apollos, of which there were 21, were rated as second-class protected cruisers and armed with 2 x 6-inch, 6 x 4.7-inch, 8 x 6-pdrs, 1 x 3-pdr and 4 x 14-inch torpedo tubes. Funnel details indicate that this ship may be either the 'Melampus', the 'Naiad' or the 'Latona'. By 1914 only the 'Sappho', the 'Sirius' and the 'Melpomene' (ex 'Indefatigable') were still rated as cruisers; the others had been converted into minelayers.

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My grandfather George Edwin Webber served on this ship between 1st November 1895 and September 9th 1897. He may have actually been on board as this photo was taken. He was also on the HMS 'Belleisle' which was stationed in Kingstown from June 11th 1888 to 8th of March 1892. He married a girl named Margaret (born 1872) from Meath. Rose was born in Meath in 1896. Lilly, George and James arrived in the ...see more