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Revision as of 12:52, 26 October 2014

H.M.S. St. George (1892)
Pendant Number: N.31 (1914)
N.88 (Jan 1918)[1]
Builder: Earle, Hull[2]
Laid down: 23 Apr, 1890[3]
Launched: 23 Jun, 1892[4]
Commissioned: 25 Oct, 1894[5]
Sold: 1 Jul, 1920[6]

H.M.S. St. George was completed in 1894 as one of nine Edgar class cruisers, but was converted to a depot ship before the Great War.

Service

St. George completed conversion to depot ship in March, 1910,[7] commissioning at Chatham on the 15th.[8] She would serve the Ninth Destroyer Flotilla in the Forth from mid-1913 if not earlier,[9] the Seventh Destroyer Flotilla in the Humber in 1914-15, and finally to the Mediterranean.[10]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 293.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 66.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 66.
  4. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 66.
  5. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 66.
  6. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 293.
  7. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 293.
  8. The Navy List (July, 1913), p. 370.
  9. The Navy List (July, 1913), p. 370.
  10. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 293.
  11. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  12. Egerton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38. f. 396.
  13. Poë Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/39. f. 1051.
  14. "Naval & Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Thursday, 21 February, 1901. Issue 36384, col D, p. 10.
  15. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  16. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  17. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  18. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  19. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  20. The Navy List. (March, 1913). p. 370.
  21. Bruce Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/319. f. 351.
  22. Bruce Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/319. f. 351.
  23. The Navy List. (January, 1915). p. 378a.
  24. The Navy List. (October, 1915). p. 397t.
  25. The Navy List. (January, 1919). p. 900.

Bibliography

  • Chesneau, Robert; Kolesnik, Eugene (editors) (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).


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