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==Captains==
==Captains==
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
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*  {{CommRN}} [[Wilfrid Tomkinson]], 12 January, 1912.<ref>''The Navy List'' (July, 1914), p. 316.</ref>
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Revision as of 19:02, 6 May 2014

H.M.S. Forth (1886)
Builder: Pembroke Royal Dockyard[1]
Laid down: 1 Dec, 1884[2]
Launched: 23 Oct, 1886[3]
Commissioned: 1889[4]
Sold:

H.M.S. Forth completed as one of four second class protected cruisers of the Mersey class in 1889, but served in the Great War as a submarine depot ship.

Service

She completed conversion to a sea-going submarine depot ship in August 1904.[5] In July 1914, she was attached to the Third Submarine Flotilla for the Test Mobilisation.[6]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 75.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 75.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 75.
  4. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 75.
  5. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 293.
  6. ↑ Admiralty Weekly Order No. 109 of 10 July, 1914.
  7. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1914). p. 316.
  8. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 795.
  9. ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1919). p. 775.

Bibliography


Mersey Class Second Class Protected Cruiser
  Forth Mersey Severn Thames  
<– Surprise Class Minor Cruisers (UK) Scout Class –>
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