H.M.S. Venus (1895)

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H.M.S. Venus (1895)
Pendant Number: P.36 (1914)
P.2C (Jan 1918)[1]
Builder: Fairfield[2]
Ordered: 1893-94 Programme[3]
Laid down: 28 Jun, 1894[4]
Launched: 5 Sep, 1895[5]
Commissioned: 9 Nov, 1897[6]
Sold: 22 Sep, 1921[7]
Fate: to Cohen[8]

H.M.S. Venus was completed in 1897 as one of nine Eclipse class cruisers, but she served in the Great War as a destroyer depot ship.

Service

Venus was commissioned at Chatham on 9 November, 1897, by Captain Sir A. Berkeley Milne, Bart., for service in the Mediterranean.[9][10]

She completed to special complement at Portsmouth on 20 December, 1911. In mid-1913, she was acting as depot ship for the First Destroyer Flotilla.[11]

Radio

In 1901, the ship is one of just two of her class of nine not noted as having or being slated to receive a "1 to 52" W/T set.[12] Perhaps she received equipment sometime soon afterward.[Inference]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 40.
  2. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 40.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 78.
  4. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 78.
  5. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 40.
  6. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 78.
  7. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 40.
  8. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 40.
  9. "Naval & Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Tuesday, 19 October, 1897. Issue 35338, col D, p. 8.
  10. "Naval & Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Monday, 25 October, 1897. Issue 35343, col D, p. 10.
  11. The Navy List (July, 1913), p. 390.
  12. Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1901. pp. 111-112.
  13. Milne Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/39. f. 891.
  14. Tudor Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38. f. 1330.
  15. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  16. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  17. "Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Thursday, 13 July, 1905. Issue 37758, col D, p. 10.
  18. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  19. Williamson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 22.
  20. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  21. "Naval Appointments" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Saturday, 11 November, 1911. Issue 39740, col B, p. 13.
  22. "Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Tuesday, 23 April, 1912. Issue 39880, col G, p. 16.
  23. The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 390.
  24. The Navy List. (December, 1914). p. 388.
  25. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  26. The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 925-925a.

Bibliography

  • Dittmar, F.J.; Colledge, J.J. (1972). British Warships 1914–1919. London: Ian Allan.


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