HMS Philomel (1890) (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Philomel was a Pearl class cruiser. She was the sixth ship of that name and served with the Royal Navy from her commissioning in 1890 until 1914, when she was transferred to the New Zealand Navy with whom she served until 1947. In 1896 she took part in the Anglo-Zanzibar War, the shortest war in history. In 1913 the Admiralty agreed to lend HMS Philomel to New Zealand as a seagoing training cruiser to form the nucleus of the newly formed NZ Naval Forces, which was a new division of the Royal Navy.