H.M.S. Marazion (1919)

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H.M.S. Marazion (1919)
Pendant Number: N.3A (Jun 1919)
N.4A (Nov 1919)[1]
Builder: Fleming & Ferguson[2]
Ordered: mid 1917[3]
Launched: 15 Apr, 1919[4]
Sold: Mar, 1933[5]
H.M.S. Marazion was one of one hundred and fourteen Hunt Class minesweepers completed for the Royal Navy.

Service

Marazion was re-commissioned on 8 January, 1919.[6]

She re-commissioned at Hong Kong on 9 February, 1924. By March 1925, she was with the Fourth Submarine Flotilla.[7] She re-commissioned on 5 November 1926 and continued to operate with 4SF on the China Station until at least early 1929.[8]

Re-commissioned on 11 April, 1929 to support the Fourth Destroyer Flotilla on the China Station.[9]

In June of 1933, her bell was one of about 100 surplus bells announced as being for sale at prices ranging from £1 to £10. Preference would be given to those offers from men with a special consideration in the bell in question.[10]

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. "A" denotes Answer pendant here. p. 114.
  2. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 114.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 98.
  4. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 114.
  5. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 114.
  6. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 808.
  7. The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 254.
  8. The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 253.
  9. The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 253.
  10. "Warships' Bells." The Times (London, England), 12 June 1933, p. 11.
  11. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 808. His service record indicates September, 1921.
  12. Dawson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/248. f. 262.
  13. Ward Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/300. f. 323.
  14. The Navy List. (January, 1923). p. 783.
  15. Ward Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/300. f. 323.
  16. The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 254.
  17. The Navy List. (February, 1926). p. 254.
  18. The Navy List. (July, 1927). p. 254.
  19. The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 253.
  20. The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 253.

Bibliography


Hunt Class Minesweeper
Ailsa Design
Belvoir Bicester Blackmorevale Cotswold Cottesmore
Cattistock Croome Dartmoor Garth Hambledon
Heythrop Holderness Meynell Muskerry Oakley
Pytchley Quorn Southdown Tedworth Zetland
Admiralty Design
Aberdare Abingdon Albury Alresford Beaufort
Collinson Appledore Leamington Badminton Bagshot
Barnstaple Swindon Banchory Bloxham Bradfield
Burslem Goole Blackburn Bootle Caerleon
Camberley Carstairs Caterham Battle Fermoy
Forfar Bury Cheam Gretna Harrow
Havant Huntley Instow Gaddesden Gainsborough
Northolt Clonmel Elgin Sherborne Tiverton
Tonbridge Tralee Tring Truro Kellett
Verwood Wem Wexford Craigie Derby
Dorking Dundalk Dunoon Fairfield Forres
Cupar Sutton Fareham Faversham Ford
Rugby Irvine Kendal Kinross Lydd
Longford Marlow Mistley Monaghan Mallaig
Malvern Marazion Munlochy Nailsea Newark
Repton Weybourne Pangbourne Penarth Petersfield
Pinner Pontypool Prestatyn Radley Ross
Salford Saltash Saltburn Selkirk Shrewsbury
Sligo Widnes Yeovil Stafford Stoke
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