NCSM Rainbow

NCSM Rainbow was a Croiseur protected from the Apollo class which served in the Royal Navy then in the Canadian royal Marine. With the NCSM Niobe , It is about the one of the first two combat ships of the Canadian military history.

Royal Navy

The HMS Rainbow was built for the Royal Navy by Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company , based with Hebburn in England. It was launched the March 25th 1891 and entered in service in 1893, carrying out its service of 1895 with 1898 with HongKong and of 1898 with 1899 with Malta. The cost of exploitation of the Rainbow being high, its use was reduced of 1900 with 1909 and its rare missions were limited to English territorial water. At this period, the budget of the fleet undergoes a strong reduction and modernizations were only tiny. Rainbow was used like ship as drive. Finally, it was not used any more as 1907 with 1909. With the beginning of the year 1909, admiralty decided its withdrawal of the active service.

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Canadian Royal Navy

The Canada acquired the ship in 1910, at the price of 243.000 dollars, and was renamed NCSM Rainbow . With NCSM Niobe, it became one of the first two ships of the Canadian royal Marine, bought with the British Admiralty. Rainbow entered in service the May 4th 1910. Its first missions were relating to the drive, the official visits and the patrols of monitoring of fishing. Its base was located at Esquimalt in British Columbia. In 1916 and at the beginning of 1917, Rainbow was used to transport a hundred and forty million dollars in Russian gold ingots of Esquimalt to Vancouver. The Canada had then been selected as agent of confidence in order to put this sum in safety.

The Canadian royal navy estimated that the cost of exploitation of the ship cost too much to the budget of the naval operations of the west coast. Consequently, Rainbow was decontaminated in 1917. With the release of the First World War and the Canadian participation in this conflict, the taken again ship of the service in July 1917 as conveyer. This second service continued until in 1920, Rainbow patrolling on the west coast during the First World War and being used as Navire-école for the first generation of recruits of the Canadian navy.

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After the service

After being decontaminated and being disarmed in 1920, Rainbow was sold like cargo liner with Seattle and, later, was sold with scrap.

The name of the ship was re-used for a submarine of the Tench class, in the past under house étatsunien ( USS Argonaut (SS-475) ), and which was used as 1968 with 1974.

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