HMS Thetis (1890)

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HMS Thetis was an Template:Sclass second-class protected cruiser of the Royal Navy, launched on 13 December 1890. Her first significant mission was service in the Bering Sea Patrol with American warships in a combined effort to suppress poaching in the Bering Sea.

She served on the Mediterranean Station until relieved in March 1901.<ref>Template:Cite newspaper The Times</ref> She was paid off at Chatham in early June 1901, and was placed in the Fleet reserve.<ref>Template:Cite newspaper The Times</ref> She was commissioned at Chatham on 25 November 1902 with a complement of 273 officers and men for service on the China Station.<ref>Template:Cite newspaper The Times</ref> She left Sheerness on 14 December, stopping in Gibraltar, Malta, Port Said, Aden, Colombo and more places before arriving in Shanghai in early February the following year.<ref>Template:Cite newspaper The Times</ref><ref>Template:Cite newspaper The Times</ref>

The latter half of her career was spent as a mine-layer. Laden with concrete, she was deliberately sunk at Template:Coord as a blockship in attempt to block the canal in the Zeebrugge Raid during the First World War, on 23 April 1918.

The White Ensign flying on wreck of the Thetis in the harbour at Zeebrugge outside the mouth of the ship canal, 24 October 1918

Post-war, Thetis was beached on a sandbank west of the harbour entrance. The wreck was cleared in 1957.<ref name=Times050257>Template:Cite newspaper The Times</ref>

Publications

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| last1 = Colledge
| first1 = J. J. 
| author-link1= J. J. Colledge
| last2 = Warlow
| first2 = Ben
| date = 2006
| orig-date = 1969
| title = Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of All Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy from the 15th Century to the Present
| edition = Rev.
| location = London
| publisher = Chatham Publishing
| isbn = 978-1-86176-281-8
| OCLC = 67375475

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