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HMS ''Theseus'' was an protected cruiser of the Royal Navy. The ''Edgar''s were similar but smaller versions of the . ''Theseus'' was launched at Leamouth, London in 1892 and commissioned on 14 January 1896. ==Service history== Upon commission in 1896, ''Theseus'' was part of the Special Flying Squadron, following which she was posted to the Mediterranean Fleet. Captain Vernon Archibald Tisdall was in command in early 1902. She served in the Mediterranean until late April 1902, when she left Malta homebound to pay off, arriving at Plymouth on 6 May, and Chatham three days later. She was paid off into the Medway Fleet Reserve on 28 May 1902. She was a tender ship to from 1905 to 1913. In February 1913, ''Theseus'' joined the Queenstown Training Squadron. When war broke out in 1914, ''Theseus'' joined the 10th Cruiser Squadron. In late August Russian forces in the Baltic captured copies of the German Navy codebook and ''Theseus'' was dispatched from Scapa Flow to Alexandrovosk in order to collect the copies offered to the British. Although she arrived on 7 September, due to mixups she did not depart until 30 September and returned to Scapa with two Russian couriers and the documents on 10 October. The books were formally handed over to the First Lord, Winston Churchill, on 13 October, and subsequently exploited by the cryptanalysts of Room 40. ''Theseus'' rejoined 10th Cruiser Squadron, which on 15 October was on patrol off Aberdeen, deployed in line abreast at intervals of about 10 miles. ''Theseus'' was unsuccessfully attacked by a submarine. The flotilla was ordered to proceed at full speed to the northwest in response to this attack, but no response to the order was heard from ''Theseus''s sister ship . ''Hawke'' had been torpedoed by the German submarine several hours earlier and had quickly capsized and sank out of sight of the rest of the flotilla.〔Massie 2007, p. 139.〕 Just 70 of ''Hawke''s 594 crew survived. ''Theseus'' was rearmed, along with bulges to her hull, which were added to enable her to take part in the Dardanelles Campaign. In 1916 she was deployed to the Mediterranean and was then sent to the White Sea. In 1918 she was sent to the Aegean Sea to be charged with the mundane task of being a depot ship. In 1919, ''Theseus'' had her final deployment, when she was sent to the Black Sea. She returned to the UK in 1920 and was scrapped the following year in Germany. 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 Theseus (1892)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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