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HMS Hyacinth was one of three Highflyer-class protected cruisers built for the Royal Navy in the 1890s. Initially assigned to the Channel Fleet, she spent much of her early career as flagship for the East Indies Station. She was reduced to reserve in 1912 after a lengthy refit before becoming the flagship of the Cape of Good Hope Station in 1913. After the beginning of World War I in August 1914, she spent the first few months of the war escorting convoys around South Africa. In early 1915, she was deployed to German East Africa to blockade the German light cruiser SMS Königsberg. She destroyed a German blockade runner attempting to bring supplies through the blockade in April and sank a German merchant vessel in early 1916. Hyacinth remained on the Cape Station for the rest of the war and

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  • HMS Hyacinth (1898) (de)
  • HMS Hyacinth (1898) (en)
  • HMS Hyacinth (1898) (fr)
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  • Der Geschützte Kreuzer HMS Hyacinth war einer der drei Kreuzer der Highflyer-Klasse der Royal Navy. Die Hyacinth war seit 1913 Flaggschiff der Station am Kap der Guten Hoffnung und damit einziger aktiver Kreuzer der Klasse bei Kriegsbeginn. Er wurde bei der Besetzung der deutschen Kolonien in Südwest-Afrika und Ost-Afrika eingesetzt. Der Kreuzer verblieb bis zum Kriegsende auf der Südafrikanischen Station. (de)
  • Le HMS Hyacinth est un croiseur protégé de la classe Highflyer de la Royal Navy. (fr)
  • HMS Hyacinth was one of three Highflyer-class protected cruisers built for the Royal Navy in the 1890s. Initially assigned to the Channel Fleet, she spent much of her early career as flagship for the East Indies Station. She was reduced to reserve in 1912 after a lengthy refit before becoming the flagship of the Cape of Good Hope Station in 1913. After the beginning of World War I in August 1914, she spent the first few months of the war escorting convoys around South Africa. In early 1915, she was deployed to German East Africa to blockade the German light cruiser SMS Königsberg. She destroyed a German blockade runner attempting to bring supplies through the blockade in April and sank a German merchant vessel in early 1916. Hyacinth remained on the Cape Station for the rest of the war and (en)
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  • Hyacinth (en)
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  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/HMS_Hyancinth_1915_AWM_P01236.016.jpeg
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Raid_hyacinth-rubens_east_africa1915-04-14.jpg
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/HMS_Hermes_(1898)_6-inch_guns.jpg
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