HMS Eclipse (1894)

HMS Eclipse was an Eclipse-class cruiser protected cruiser built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1890s.

Service
HMS Eclipse was launched in 1894 and completed in 1897.

In 1899 she served in the Indian Ocean under the command of Captain P. W. Bush, as flagship of the East Indies Squadron.

She was commissioned at Chatham dockyard in late May 1901, with a crew of 450 officers and men under the command of Captain Stokes, to relieve HMS Hermione on the China Station.