Chapter XXXVI: Appendix: 5

List of H.M. ships and vessels serving on the Cape station October 11th, 1899, to June 1st, 1902, showing the approximate dates when they were so engaged.

Those that were present on the station at the beginning of the war are shown with an asterisk.

Name of Dates between Commanded by Remarks.
vessel. which so serving.
from to

BARRACOUTA* 10/99 6/02 Comder. R.H. Peirse
Comder. H. Cotesworth
Comder. S. H. B. Ash

BARROSA* 10/99 3/01 Comder. W. F. Tunnard

BEAGLE 7/01 6/02 Comder. H. V. W. Elliott

BLANCHE 1/01 6/02 Comder. M. T. Parks

DORIS* 10/99 4/01 Capt. R. C. Prothero, C.B. Flagship of
Rear Admrl.
Sir R. H.
Harris,
K.C.B.
K.C.M.G.
DWARF* 11/99 6/02 Lieut. H. F. Shakespear
Lieut. W. N. England

FEARLESS 12/99 8/00 Comder. H. R. P. Floyd Detached from
Mediterranean
station.

FORTE* 10/99 6/02 Capt. E. P. Jones C.B.
Comder. C. H. Dundas
Capt. R. C. Sparkes, C.M.G.
Capt. P. Hoskyns, C.M.G.,
M.V.O.

GIBRALTAR 4/01 6/02 Capt. A. H. Limpus Flagship of
Rear Admiral
Arthur W.
Moore, C.B.,
C.M.G.

MAGICIENNE* 10/99 11/00 Capt. W. B. Fisher, C.B.

MAGPIE 11/00 5/02 Lieut. J. K. Laird

MONARCH* 10/99 6/02 Capt. R. D. B. Bruce
Capt. C. H. Bayly
Capt. W. L. Grant

NAIAD 4/01 11/01 Capt. the Hon. A. E. Detached from
Bethell Mediterranean
station.

NIOBE 11/99 8/00 Capt. A. L. Winsloe Detached from
Channel
Squdrn.

PARTRIDGE* 10/99 6/02 Lieut. A. T. Hunt
Lieut. E. La T. Leatham

PEARL 4/02 6/02 Capt. E. P. Ashe

PELORUS 12/99 6/00 Capt. H. C. B. Hulbert Detached from
Channel
Squdrn.

PHILOMEL* 10/99 1/02 Capt. J. E. Bearcroft, C.B.

POWERFUL 10/99 3/00 Capt. the Hon. Hedworth On way home
Lambton, C.B. from China.

RACOON 1/00 7/00 Comder. G. H. Hewett Detached from
Comder. A. E. A. Grant East Indies
stn.

RAMBLER 11/99 6/00 Comder. H. E. P. Cust Surveying
Service.

RATTLER 9/01 6/02 Lieut. C. Tibbits

REDBREAST 2/01 4/01 Lieut. M. R. Hill Detached from
East Indies.

SAPPHO 2/01 7/01 Capt. C. Burney Dtchd. from
S.E. Coast
America.

SYBILLE 1/01 2/01 Capt. H. P. Williams Wrecked near
Lambert's
Bay.

TARTAR* 10/99 7/01 Comder. F. R. W. Morgan
Comder. R. H. Travers

TERRIBLE 10/99 3/00 Capt. P. M. Scott, C.B. On her way out
to China
station.

TERPSICHORE 3/01 3/02 Capt. C. H. Coke Replaced the
Sybille.

THETIS 11/99 4/01 Capt. W. Stokes Rees, C.B. Detached from
Mediterranean
station.

THRUSH* 10/99 6/02 Lieut. W. H. D'Oyly

WIDGEON* 10/99 6/01 Lieut. A. F. Gurney
Lieut. W. Forbes

APPENDIX 6.

SHOWING APPROXIMATE STRENGTH, CASUALTIES, &C., IN THE PRINCIPAL ENGAGEMENTS DESCRIBED IN VOLUME I.

TALANA HILL, OCTOBER 20th, 1899.