funded by the government of New Zealand, gifted to Britain; commissioned into the Royal Navy in 1912.

1913 - participated in the major North Sea battles of the First World War: Heligoland Bight, Dogger Bank, and Jutland—and was involved in the response to the inconclusive Raid on Scarborough, and the Second Battle of Heligoland Bight.

1922 - broken up for scrap