HMS Thetis (1890)
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She served on the Mediterranean Station until relieved in March 1901.[1] She was paid off at Chatham in early June 1901, and was placed in the Fleet reserve.[2] She was commissioned at Chatham on 25 November 1902 with a complement of 273 officers and men for service on the China Station.[3] She left Sheerness on 14 December, stopping in Gibraltar, Malta, Port Said, Aden, Colombo and more places before arriving in Shanghai in early February the following year.[4][5]
The latter half of her career was spent as a mine-layer. Laden with concrete, she was deliberately sunk at Script error: No such module "Coordinates". as a blockship in attempt to block the canal in the Zeebrugge Raid during the First World War, on 23 April 1918.
Post-war, Thetis was beached on a sandbank west of the harbour entrance. The wreck was cleared in 1957.[6]
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