HMS Perseus was a Pelorus-class protected cruiser of the Royal Navy.

With reciprocating triple expansion engines fed by 14 Thornycroft boilers, the top speed was 20 knots (37 km/h).

[1] HMS Perseus was laid down at Earle's Shipbuilding, Hull, in May 1896, launched on 15 July 1897, and completed in 1901.

[1] Under the command of Commander Edmund Radcliffe Pears, she was in March 1901 commissioned to form part of the East Indies fleet,[2][3] where she was often stationed in the Persian Gulf or the Gulf of Aden.

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