H.M.S. Forth (1886)

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

In July 1914, she was attached to the Third Submarine Flotilla for the Test Mobilisation. In January, 1915, she transferred to the Tenth Submarine Flotilla. She remained there until August 1916 when she went to help the Eighth Submarine Flotilla, but she remained there only about one month. In September, she was with the Ninth Submarine Flotilla where she would remain through the end of the war.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

• Captain Edgar Lees, 28 July, 1904
• Commander Robert W. Johnson, 5 January, 1905 – May, 1905  (and for duty with submarines)
• Commander Sydney S. Hall, May, 1905 – 12 November, 1906
• Commander Maurice S. FitzMaurice, May, 1906 – 4 October, 1906  (lent)
• Commander Robert W. Johnson, 12 November, 1906 – 5 January, 1909  (and for duty with submarines and in command of the Devonport Submarine Flotilla)
• Commander Albert P. Addison, 5 January, 1909 – 1909  (and for duty with submarines and in command of the Seagoing Flotilla)
• Commander Algernon H. C. Candy, 17 November, 1909 – 2 January, 1911  (and for command of Devonport Seagoing Flotilla)
• Commander Stanley L. Willis, 2 January, 1911  (and for command of Devonport Seagoing Flotilla)
• Commander Wilfred Tomkinson, 12 January, 1912 – August, 1914
• Commander Nicholas E. Archdale, 31 October, 1914 – late 1917^[Inference]  (and for duty with Submarines)
• Commander Gilbert H. Kellett, 15 November, 1917 – 25 February, 1919  (and for submarines)
• Commander (S) Brownlow V. Layard, February, 1919 – November, 1919  (and for command of Portsmouth Submarine Flotilla)

See Also

• Wikipedia