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HMS ''St George'' was a first class cruiser of the . She was launched on 23 June 1892. ==Service history== ''St George'' took part in the 40 minute long Anglo-Zanzibar War in 1896. The obsolete armed yacht of Zanzibar fired upon a British flotilla led by ''St George'', also comprising , , and . The response sank ''Glasgow'' with a hole below the waterline. With a Union Jack flying over the sinking yacht in surrender, the flotilla launched lifeboats to rescue the crew of ''Glasgow'' which would lie at the bottom of Zanzibar Town Harbour until 1912. In 1901, she was one of two escort ships for the royal yacht , which carried the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York (later King George V and Queen Mary) during their tour of the British Empire. Following the end of this tour, the captain of ''Ophir'', Commodore Alfred Winsloe, reverted to his position as Commodore commanding the Cruiser squadron, and was in late 1901 posted to ''St George'', which thus became the lead ship of the squadron and carried his broad pennant. In May 1902 she was taken into Portsmouth for a refit, and later that year she served in the 1902 Coronation review. She was the flagship of the Cape & West Africa Station (Rear-Admiral Harry Rawson) based at Simon's Town, and served in the First World War. She was designated as a depot ship in 1909, and sold for breaking up at Plymouth on July 1, 1920. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「HMS St George (1892)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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