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Revision as of 18:48, 13 November 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. ↑ Bruen Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 210/418.
  19. ↑ Bruen Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 210/418.
  20. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  21. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  22. ↑ The Navy List. (March, 1913). p. 370.
  23. ↑ Bruce Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/319. f. 351.
  24. ↑ Bruce Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/319. f. 351.
  25. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1915). p. 378a.
  26. ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1915). p. 397t.
  27. ↑ 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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