H.M.S. Hebe (1892)

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H.M.S. Hebe (1892)
Pendant Number: D.07 (1914)
N.07 (Sep 1915)
N.75 (Jan 1918)[1]
Builder: Laird[2]
Laid down: 11 January, 1890[3]
Launched: 15 Jun, 1892[4]
Completed: 9 October, 1894[5]
Sold: 22 October 1919[6]

H.M.S. Hebe was completed as a torpedo gunboat, but was converted along with her sister Onyx to submarine depot ship before the Great War.

Service

Hebe converted to a depot ship in 1909.[7]

She served with the Sixth Submarine Flotilla at the start of the war, following them to the Tyne from 1914 to 1916. She worked with the First Submarine Flotilla at Leith in 1916-17, and with the Third Submarine Flotilla in 1917-18.[8]

Captains

Dates of appointment given.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 293.
  2. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 293.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 89.
  4. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 293.
  5. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 89.
  6. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 293.
  7. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 293.
  8. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 293.

Bibliography

  • Chesneau, Robert; Kolesnik, Eugene (editors) (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).


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