Appendix 5
List of H.M. ships and vessels serving on the Cape station October 11th, 1899, to June 1st, 1902, showing the approximate dates when they were so engaged.
Those that were present on the station at the beginning of the war are shown with an asterisk.
| Name of vessel. | Dates between which so serving. | Commanded by | Remarks. | |
| from | to | |||
| Barracouta* | 10/99 | 6/02 | Comder. R.H. Peirse Comder. H. Cotesworth Comder. S. H. B. Ash | |
| Barrosa* | 10/99 | 3/01 | Comder. W. F. Tunnard | |
| Beagle | 7/01 | 6/02 | Comder. H. V. W. Elliott | |
| Blanche | 1/01 | 6/02 | Comder. M. T. Parks | |
| Doris* | 10/99 | 4/01 | Capt. R. C. Prothero, C.B. | Flagship of Rear Admrl. Sir R. H. Harris, K.C.B. K.C.M.G. |
| Dwarf* | 11/99 | 6/02 | Lieut. H. F. Shakespear Lieut. W. N. England | |
| Fearless | 12/99 | 8/00 | Comder. H. R. P. Floyd | Detached from Mediterranean station. |
| Forte* | 10/99 | 6/02 | Capt. E. P. Jones C.B. Comder. C. H. Dundas Capt. R. C. Sparkes, C.M.G. Capt. P. Hoskyns, C.M.G., M.V.O. | |
| Gibraltar | 4/01 | 6/02 | Capt. A. H. Limpus | Flagship of Rear Admiral Arthur W. Moore, C.B., C.M.G. |
| Magicienne* | 10/99 | 11/00 | Capt. W. B. Fisher, C.B. | |
| Magpie | 11/00 | 5/02 | Lieut. J. K. Laird | |
| Monarch* | 10/99 | 6/02 | Capt. R. D. B. Bruce Capt. C. H. Bayly Capt. W. L. Grant | |
| Naiad | 4/01 | 11/01 | Capt. the Hon. A. E. Bethell | Detached from Mediterranean station. |
| Niobe | 11/99 | 8/00 | Capt. A. L. Winsloe | Detached from Channel Squdrn. |
| Partridge* | 10/99 | 6/02 | Lieut. A. T. Hunt Lieut. E. La T. Leatham | |
| Pearl | 4/02 | 6/02 | Capt. E. P. Ashe | |
| Pelorus | 12/99 | 6/00 | Capt. H. C. B. Hulbert | Detached from Channel Squdrn. |
| Philomel* | 10/99 | 1/02 | Capt. J. E. Bearcroft, C.B. | |
| Powerful | 10/99 | 3/00 | Capt. the Hon. Hedworth Lambton, C.B. | On way home from China. |
| Racoon | 1/00 | 7/00 | Comder. G. H. Hewett Comder. A. E. A. Grant | Detached from East Indies stn. |
| Rambler | 11/99 | 6/00 | Comder. H. E. P. Cust | Surveying Service. |
| Rattler | 9/01 | 6/02 | Lieut. C. Tibbits | |
| Redbreast | 2/01 | 4/01 | Lieut. M. R. Hill | Detached from East Indies. |
| Sappho | 2/01 | 7/01 | Capt. C. Burney | Dtchd. from S.E. Coast America. |
| Sybille | 1/01 | 2/01 | Capt. H. P. Williams | Wrecked near Lambert’s Bay. |
| Tartar* | 10/99 | 7/01 | Comder. F. R. W. Morgan Comder. R. H. Travers | |
| Terrible | 10/99 | 3/00 | Capt. P. M. Scott, C.B. | On her way out to China station. |
| Terpsichore | 3/01 | 3/02 | Capt. C. H. Coke | Replaced the Sybille. |
| Thetis | 11/99 | 4/01 | Capt. W. Stokes Rees, C.B. | Detached from Mediterranean station. |
| Thrush* | 10/99 | 6/02 | Lieut. W. H. D’Oyly | |
| Widgeon* | 10/99 | 6/01 | Lieut. A. F. Gurney Lieut. W. Forbes | |