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HMS Terrible

   
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HMS Terrible

1st Class cruiser. 

Served between October 1899 and March 1900.  Commanded by Captain P M Scott CB.

 

Sister ship of HMS Powerful.  See HMS Powerful for more information.  After the Boer War, she was refitted 1902 to 1904 and went into the reserve fleet.  She was used as a troop ship in 1915 and from 1915 as an accommodation ship until the late 1920s.  She was renamed TS Fishgard III.  She was scrapped in Jul 1932.

 

Click here for information about the men from HMS Terrible who went on to take part in the Relief of Pekin in the China campaign.