HMS Venus was an Eclipse-class protected cruiser built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1890s. She was commanded by Sir Archibald Berkeley Milne and served at the Mediterranean Station until March 1901, when she paid off at Chatham Dockyard. She joined the 3rd Fleet at Pembroke in 1913 and went to Portsmouth in 1914. Joined the 11th Cruiser Squadron in Ireland in August 1914; captured two German merchantmen in October and lost her foremast in a gale in November 1914. To Egypt 1916; Singapore March 1917; flagship East Indies 1919 until she returned home in May 1919 to pay off.