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Revision as of 12:59, 30 August 2019

H.M.S. Audacious (1869)
Builder: Robert Napier & Sons, Glasgow[1]
Ordered: 1867 Estimates[2]
Laid down: 26 Jun, 1867[3]
Launched: 27 Feb, 1869[4]
Commissioned: 10 Sep, 1870[5]
Sold: 1922[6]
H.M.S. Audacious was one of four Audacious Class central battery ironclads completed for the Royal Navy.

Service

In February, 1888, she was flagship on the China Station, bearing the Commander-in-Chief, Vice-Admiral Sir Nowell Salmon.[7]

Audacious participated in the Annual Manoeuvres of 1890 under the command of Captain Arthur C. H. Paget as part of the Hostile Fleet tasked with threatening British trade routes.[8]

She was renamed Imperieuse in 1914, at which time she was serving as a repair ship.

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 15.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 15.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 15.
  4. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 15.
  5. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 15.
  6. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 15.
  7. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1888). p. 187.
  8. ↑ "Naval Intelligence." The Times (London, England), Saturday, Jul 19, 1890; pg. 12; Issue 33068.
  9. ↑ Durrant Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/36/1004. f. 358.
  10. ↑ Durrant Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/36/1004. f. 358.
  11. ↑ Anstruther Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/14/503. f. ?.
  12. ↑ Anstruther Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/14/503. f. ?.
  13. ↑ The Navy List. (September, 1885). p. 196.
  14. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1888). p. 195.
  15. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1890). p. 196.
  16. ↑ The Navy List. (May, 1903). p. 230.
  17. ↑ Watson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 367.
  18. ↑ Watson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 367.
  19. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1915). p. 394q.
  20. ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1916). p. 395i.
  21. ↑ Chambers Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 407.
  22. ↑ Fanshawe Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/1. f. 1.
  23. ↑ Fanshawe Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/1. f. 1.
  24. ↑ Irvin Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/96/243. f. 315.
  25. ↑ Irvin Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/96/243. f. 315.


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