| Name: | SYBILLE |
| Type: | Cruiser |
| Keel: | 11/10/1889 |
| Launched: | 27/12/1890 |
| Completed: | 05/1894 |
| Builder: | Robert Stephenson & Co Ltd |
| Yard: | Hebburn |
| Yard Number: | 17 |
| Dimensions: | 3600disp, 314.0 x 43.4 x 17.4(draft)ft |
| Engines: | 2 x VT3cyl (33.5, 49 & 74ins x 39ins), 5500ihp to 9000hp |
| Engines by: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co, Newcastle |
| Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 20.0knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Armament: | 2 x 1 x 6.0ins QF, 6 x 1 x 4.7ins, 8 x 6pdr guns, 4 x 14.0ins torpedoes |
| History: | |
| 05/1894 | British Royal Navy |
| 16/01/1901 | Wrecked |
| Comments: | Member of the Apollo Class |
| 04/1892: Completed & handed over to The Admiralty, but not immediately commissioned | |
| 16/01/1901: Wrecked at Lamberts Bay, South Africa |
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Shields Daily Gazette, Monday 29th December 1890
Shields Daily Gazette, Monday 4th April 1892