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H.M.S. Amphion (1911)
Pendant Number: N/A[1]
Builder: Pembroke Royal Dockyard[2]
Ordered: 1910 Programme[3]
Laid down: 15 Mar, 1911[4]
Launched: 1911[5]
Commissioned: Mar, 1913[6]
Mined: 6 Aug, 1914[7]
Fate: in North Sea

H.M.S. Amphion was the first ship of the Royal Navy lost in the war.

Honours

On 2 October 1914, the Admiralty inserted into its Weekly Orders a note of "Appreciation of Conduct of Officers and Crews of Ships recently destroyed", mentioning this ship as one of six whose men displayed "exemplary steadiness and coolness... in face of imminent death".[8]

Captains

Dates of appointment given:

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 45.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 53.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 53.
  4. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 53.
  5. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 53.
  6. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 53.
  7. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 45.
  8. ↑ Admiralty Weekly Order No. 426 of 2 Oct, 1914.
  9. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  10. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.

Bibliography


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