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==Captains==
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Dates of appointment are provided when known.
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Revision as of 14:27, 4 November 2015

H.M.S. Wahine (1912)
Pendant Number: Y4.51
N.5A (Jan 1918)[1]
Builder: Denny[2]
Yard Number: 971[3]
Launched: 25 Nov, 1912[4]
Commissioned: 12 Jul, 1915[5]
Returned: 17 Feb, 1920[6]
Fate: to civil use

H.M.S. Wahine was a passenger and cargo liner taken up for service as a minelayer in the Royal Navy.

Service

In October, 1915, she began work as a fleet messenger between Malta and Mudros. In May, 1916, she was converted to a minelayer.[7] She was first listed in the Navy List in this role in August, 1916.[8]

She carried out seventy-six missions, first on the Dover Barrage and later in the Helgoland Bight, operating out of Immingham.[9] She last appeared in the Navy List in March, 1919.[10]

Armament

Guns

Her guns were as follows.[11]

  • two 14-pdrs (Turkish)
  • two 6-pdr H.A.

Mines

  • 160 H.2 or Mark VIII sinker mines[12]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 118.
  2. ↑ POHeritage.com.
  3. ↑ POHeritage.com.
  4. ↑ POHeritage.com.
  5. ↑ POHeritage.com.
  6. ↑ POHeritage.com.
  7. ↑ POHeritage.com.
  8. ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (August, 1916). p. 14.
  9. ↑ POHeritage.com.
  10. ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (March, 1919). p. 12.
  11. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 118.
  12. ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, Mining Appendix, 1917-18. p. 12, Plate 7.
  13. ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1916). p. 402.
  14. ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1918). p. 1009.

Bibliography


Minelayer H.M.S. Wahine



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