H.M.S. Amphion (1911)

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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, completed in 1913 was the first ship of the Royal Navy lost in the war.

Modern sources often treat her as a member of a three-vessel Active class, but we treat her as contemporary documents do, as one of seven ships of the Boadicea class.

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. The Navy List (April, 1914). p. 278.
  10. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.

Bibliography


Boadicea Class Scout Cruiser
Boadicea Group
  Boadicea Bellona  
Blonde Group
  Blonde Blanche  
Active Group
  Active Amphion Fearless  
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