HMS Spitfire was one of two s which served with the Royal Navy. She was launched on 7 June 1895 by Armstrong Mitchell & Co. at Newcastle upon TyneThe Times (London), Saturday, 8 June 1895, p.8 and sold off in 1912. Her fate is unknown.
Service history Spitfire served in home waters. In early February 1900 she had repairs at Chatham, before joining the Medway instructional flotilla on 26 February to replace , whose crew under the command of Lieutenant Charles Pipon Beaty-Pownall turned over to her from 7 March. She was tender to , the shore establishment at Sheerness. She underwent repairs to re-tube her boilers in 1902. On 7 May 1902 she was commissioned as tender to the cruiser , which itself served as a sea-going tender at Sheerness.
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