Name HMS Psyche Class and type Pearl-class cruiser Launched 10 December 1889 Displacement 2.336 million kg Builder John Brown & Company | Renamed Ringarooma (1890) Beam 41 ft (12 m) Weight 2,616 tons Draft 4.72 m | |
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Fate Sold in May 1906 for breaking up Length 278 ft (85 m) oa
256 ft (78 m) pp | ||
HMS Ringarooma was a Pearl-class cruiser of the Royal Navy, originally named HMS Psyche, built by J & G Thomson, Glasgow and launched on 10 December 1889. Renamed on 2 April 1890, as Ringarooma as part of the Auxiliary Squadron of the Australia Station. She arrived in Sydney with the squadron on 5 September 1891. She was damaged after running aground on a reef at Makelula Island, New Hebrides on 31 August 1894 and was pulled off by the French cruiser Duchaffault. Between 1897 and 1900 she was in reserve at Sydney. On 15 February Captain Frederick St. George Rich was appointed in command. She left the Australia Station on 22 August 1904. She was sold for £8500 in May 1906 to Forth Shipbreaking Company for breaking up.
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