HMS Venus

Naval Database

Venus, 1895
Type: Light Cruiser ; Armament 9 - 6 inch, 45 cal. M. VII, 4 - 12 pdr., 12 cwt., 1 - 3 pdr., 2 M.G. Torpedo tubes (18 inch) : 2 submerged, 1 above water (stern).
Launched : 5 Sep 1895 ; Disposal date or year : 1921
Displacement: 5600 tons
Propulsion: 2 screws Complement: 393
Machinery notes: 2 sets inverted triple expansion. Boilers: 8 single-ended cylindrical. Designed H.P. natural 8000 = 18.5 kts. ; forced 9600 = 19 5 kts. Coal : normal, 550 tons ; maximum, 1065 tons. ; Speed ; 18.5 knots ;
Notes:

26 Jun 1897 Present at the Naval Review at Spithead in celebration of the Diamond Jubilee.

19 Jan 1900 Gibraltar - Venus, Earnest, Griffon, left for Malta.

18 Nov 1900 Collision with the battleship Canopus - see below.

Aug 1914 Eleventh Cruiser Squadron, Portsmouth. Tender to Europa.

1917-> assisted the Fox off a rock - see p. 54-> www.naval-review.org/issues/1926-1.pdf.

From News of the World of 18 Nov 1900:
Accident to a British Battleship

A serious disaster, according to letters received at Portsmouth from the Mediterranean Squadron, was narrowly averted while the fleet was leaving Nauppia Bay for Malta.

In passing out of the harbour the battleship Canopus and the cruiser Venus came so nearly into collision that some of the battleship's boats were smashed and her deck stanchions carried away. The Canopus and the Venus are two of the newest ships in the respective classes in the squadron.