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Too slow and too
obsolescent for
fleet work, she was
on her way to become
the flagship of the
East Indies
Squadron, a position
she then held until
the end of the war.
Over the next two
and three-quarter
years she would make
several calls at
Aden, since about
seven months of that
time would be spent
in the northern Red
Sea. Her first call
at Aden was on 30
March when she
stayed for just two
days on her way to
Bombay. What was
noteworthy about
this visit is that
her seaplane
‘ascended’ for a
short flight on the
31st,
thus pre-dating the
seaplanes from the
Ben-ma-Chree in June
that year as being
the first planes to
fly at Aden. |
The Euryalus was
back in Aden on 26
July on her way to
Suez; on her way
back East she called
in again on 19
December, this time
for nearly five days
- on one of which
she carried out
target practice with
her 9.2 and 6 inch
guns on a target
towed by the piquet
boat. She was back
the following June
(1917) when, after
leaving Aden she met
up with a ‘squadron’
(Northbrook, Odin,
Topaz and Suva) to
bombard the barracks
at Hodeida. She was
back in Aden for a
week at the end of
August before
returning to the Far
East, where she
remained for the
rest of the war.
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