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Latest revision as of 15:30, 24 July 2017

H.M.S. Old Colony (1907)
Pendant Number: N.62 (Jan 1918)[1]
Launched: 1907[2]
Sold: Mar, 1920[3]

H.M.S. Old Colony was a coastal steamer built in Philadelphia in 1907. She was taken up by the U.S. Navy in November 1917[4] as U.S.S. Old Colony and sent across the Atlantic for transfer to the Royal Navy. Conversion to a minelayer was underway but incomplete when the war ended.

Armament

She was to have the capacity of 300 mines, but work was not finished at the end of the war.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 118.
  2. ↑ This year may be wrong.
  3. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 118.
  4. ↑ Naval Historical Center.
  5. ↑ The Navy List. (March, 1919). p. 854.

Bibliography


Minelayer H.M.S. Old Colony



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