H.M.S. Topaze (1903)

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H.M.S. Topaze (1903)
Pendant Number: P.29 (1914)
P.2A (Sep 1915)
P.1C (Jan 1918)[1]
Builder: Laird, Birkenhead[2]
Laid down: 14 Aug, 1902[3]
Launched: 23 Jul, 1903[4]
Commissioned: Nov, 1904[5]
Sold: 22 Sep, 1921[6]
Fate: to Cohen[7]

Service

In mid-1913, with Third Fleet.[8]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

Aterations

In October 1914, the ship was to be given 6 Pattern 1582 Electric Radiators to warm cabins whose stoves could not be used for heating them.[11]

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 43.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 84.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 84.
  4. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 84.
  5. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 84.
  6. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 43.
  7. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 43.
  8. The Navy List (July, 1913), p. 387.
  9. Bernard Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 15.
  10. Tyrwhitt Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 125.
  11. Admiralty Weekly Order No. 512 of 16 Oct, 1914.

Bibliography


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