HMS Naiad, c1914
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Naiad
Namesake	Naiad
Builder	Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness
Laid down	3 October 1889[1]
Launched	29 November 1890
Commissioned	January 1892
Fate	Broken up, 1922
General characteristics
Beam	43 ft 8 in (13.31 m)
Draught	17 ft 6 in (5.33 m)
Speed	19.7 knots (22.7 mph; 36.5 km/h)
Complement	273 to 275
Armament	2 × 6-inch (152 mm) QF guns 6 × QF 4.7-inch (120 mm) guns[2] 8 × 6-pounder QF guns 1 × 3-pounder QF gun 2 to 4 × 14 in (360 mm) torpedo tubes

HMS Naiad was an Apollo-class protected cruiser of the Royal Navy which served from 1892 to 1919.

In 1890, building by the Naval Construction and Armaments Co, later known as Vickers, commenced.

On 26 Jun 1897, she was present at the Naval Review at Spithead in celebration of the Diamond Jubilee.

Captain Alexander Bethell was appointed in command on 19 March 1901, as she was serving in the Mediterranean Fleet. The ship served off South Africa during the Second Boer War (service from April-Nov. 1901) and 117 of her crew of 234 served in Naval Brigades ashore, in the Cape Colony.^[3]

The following year she visited Alexandria and Port Said en route for Aden in late October 1902.^[4]

Based in the Indian Sea, she was involved in the military operations in Somaliland 1902–04, her crew receiving 285 medals and clasps for the campaign.^[5]

In 1910, like many other ships of her class, Naiad was converted to a minelayer, as she was obsolete as a Cruiser. She was relegated to harbour duties in 1919 and sold for scrap in 1922.

• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.

• Media related to HMS Naiad (ship, 1890) at Wikimedia Commons
• HMS Naiad at the Dreadnought project.

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