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HMS Niobe (1897)
HMS ''Niobe'' was a ship of the of protected cruiser in the Royal Navy. She served in the Boer War and was then given to Canada as the second ship of the then newly created Naval Service of Canada as HMCS ''Niobe''. The Naval Service of Canada became the Royal Canadian Navy in August 1911. The ship was nearly lost when she went aground off Cape Sable overnight 30-31 July 1911. Repairs were not completed until the end of 1912 and was not in service again until the fall of 1914. She patrolled the approaches to the St Lawrence and then joined the Royal Navy's 4th Cruiser Squadron to patrol the off New York. She returned to Halifax on 17 July 1915 and never put to sea again but was paid off in September and serve as a depot ship in Halifax. Damaged in the 1917 Halifax Explosion, she was scrapped in the 1920s.
==Career==
''Niobe'' was built by Vickers Limited, Barrow-in-Furness and launched on 20 February 1897, entering service in 1898.
She was part of the Channel Squadron at the outbreak of the Boer War (1899–1900), and was sent to Gibraltar to escort troop transports ferrying reinforcements to the Cape. On 4 December 1899, ''Niobe'' and rescued troops from SS ''Ismore'', which had run aground. ''Niobe'' saw further action in the Boer War, escorting troops to Cape Town, and the Queen's South Africa Medal was subsequently awarded to the crew. She returned to the English Channel, but later escorted vessels as far as Colombo in Ceylon.〔(Diary of a seaman on ''Niobe'' )〕
In March 1901 ''Niobe'' was one of two cruisers to escort , commissioned as royal yacht for the world tour of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York (later King George and Queen Mary), from Spithead to Gibraltar, and in September the same year she again escorted the royal yacht from St. Vincent to Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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