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HMS Orlando (1886)
HMS ''Orlando'' was the lead ship of the of first-class cruisers built in the yards of Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company, Jarrow and launched on 3 August 1886.
==Service history==
She was commanded by Charles Ramsay Arbuthnot on the Australia Station from 1892 to 1895. In 1899 she was assigned to the China Station,〔Bastock, pp.98–99.〕 Captain James Henry Thomas Burke in command. During the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, sailors from HMS ''Orlando'' formed part of the force led by Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Seymour attempting to relieve the British Legation in Beijing. A replica of a bell captured from the Taku Forts forms part of a memorial to HMS ''Orlando'' in Victoria Park, Portsmouth.
In late March 1902 she left Hong Kong for Singapore, arriving there on 6 April. After three weeks, she left Penang in late April, homebound, stopping at Colombo on 5 May, Aden on 14 May, Malta on 28 May, and Gibraltar on 2 June, before arriving at Portsmouth four days later. Captain Burke died at sea on 12 May 1902, during the journey, and was buried at Aden. Commander Philip Howard Colomb was in charge fore the remainder of the journey.
HMS ''Orlando'' was sold for scrapping on 11 July 1905 to Ward of Morecambe for £10,000.〔
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