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==Service==
==Service==
''Ascot'' was the last British warship to be sunk by direct enemy action in World War I.
''Ascot'' operated out of Portsmouth as part of the humble {{UK-FSF|9}} in 1918 until she was torpedoed off the Farne Islands by {{DE-UB67}} on 10 November 1918.  She was the last British warship to be sunk by direct enemy action in World War I.


==Captains==
==Captains==
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{{Tenure|rank=Acting {{LiCRNR}}|name=Edward James Courthope|nick=Edward J. Courthope|appt=7 October, 1916{{NLNov17|p. 391''l''}}|end=}}
{{Tenure|rank=Acting {{LiCRNR}}|name=Edward James Courthope|nick=Edward J. Courthope|appt=7 October, 1916<ref>Courthope Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 240/43/10.|}}  f. 5.</ref>{{NLNov17|p. 391''l''}}|end=21 March, 1918<ref>Courthope Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 240/43/10.|}}  f. 5.</ref>|note=invalided w/phthisis}}
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Latest revision as of 14:56, 15 April 2022

H.M.S. Ascot (1916)
Admiralty Pendant Number: 881[1]
Pendant Number: T.16 (Sep 1918)[2]
Builder: Ailsa Shipbuilding Company[3]
Ordered: Sep 1915[4]
Launched: 26 Jan, 1916[5]
Torpedoed: 10 Nov, 1918[6]
Fate: by [7]

H.M.S. Ascot was one of thirty-two Ascot Class paddle minesweepers completed for the Royal Navy.

Service

Ascot operated out of Portsmouth as part of the humble Ninth Fleet Sweeping Flotilla in 1918 until she was torpedoed off the Farne Islands by UB 67 on 10 November 1918. She was the last British warship to be sunk by direct enemy action in World War I.

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 111.
  2. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 111. See this note for more info.
  3. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 111.
  4. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 111.
  5. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 111.
  6. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 111.
  7. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 111.
  8. ↑ Douglas Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 240/41/30. f. 15.
  9. ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1916). p. 392f.
  10. ↑ Douglas Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 240/41/30. f. 15.
  11. ↑ Courthope Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 240/43/10. f. 5.
  12. ↑ The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 391l.
  13. ↑ Courthope Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 240/43/10. f. 5.
  14. ↑ MacDonald Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 240/49/595. f. ?.
  15. ↑ MacDonald Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 240/49/595. f. ?.
  16. ↑ Hepper. British Warship Losses in the Ironclad Era: 1860-1919. p. 145.

Bibliography


Ascot Class Paddle Minesweeper
1915 Design
Ascot Atherstone Chelmsford Chepstow Croxton
Doncaster Eglinton Epsom Eridge Gatwick
Kempton Lingfield Ludlow Melton Newbury
Plumpton Pontefract Cheltenham Goodwood Haldon
  Hurst Redcar Sandown Totnes  
Enlarged, 1917 Design
  Banbury Harpenden Hexham Lanark  
  Lewes Shincliffe Shirley Wetherby  
  Minesweepers (UK) Hunt Class –>


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