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'''H.M.S. ''Pactolus''''' was a cruiser.
'''H.M.S. ''Pactolus''''' was completed as one of eleven [[Pelorus Class Cruiser (1896)|''Pelorus'' class]] cruisers, but served as a submarine depot ship in the Great War.


==Service==
She completed conversion to a submarine depot ship in September 1912.{{DittColl|p. 294}}  She serviced the boats of the {{UK-SF|9}} out of the Clyde from the start of the war through September 1916.
She completed conversion to a submarine depot ship in September 1912.{{DittColl|p. 294}}  She serviced the boats of the {{UK-SF|9}} out of the Clyde from the start of the war through September 1916.



Revision as of 14:39, 15 July 2013

H.M.S. Pactolus (1896)
Pendant Number: D.08 (1914)
N.08 (Sep 1915)
N.77 (Jan 1918)[1]
Builder: Armstrong, Elswick[2]
Laid down: May, 1896[3]
Launched: 21 Dec, 1896[4]
Commissioned: Sep, 1898[5]
Sold: 1921[6]

H.M.S. Pactolus was completed as one of eleven Pelorus class cruisers, but served as a submarine depot ship in the Great War.

Service

She completed conversion to a submarine depot ship in September 1912.[7] She serviced the boats of the Ninth Submarine Flotilla out of the Clyde from the start of the war through September 1916.

Captains

Dates of appointment given:

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. pp. 41, 294.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 83.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 83.
  4. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 83.
  5. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 83.
  6. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 83.
  7. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 294.
  8. The Navy List (April, 1914), p. 353.

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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