Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. HMS Talbot was an Eclipse class protected cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was commissioned on 15 September 1895 for service on the America and West Indies Station. She was present at Chemulpo Bay in 1904, during the historical naval battle between two Russian ships, the cruiser Varyag and the gunboat Korietz against a fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Future Arctic explorers and members of Robert Falcon Scott''s ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition Patrick Keohane and Edward Evans served aboard her.