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'''H.M.S. ''Medway''''' was the first purpose-built submarine depot ship in the [[Royal Navy]].
 
'''H.M.S. ''Medway''''' was the first purpose-built submarine depot ship in the [[Royal Navy]].
  

Revision as of 16:03, 19 April 2018

H.M.S. Medway (1928)
Pendant Number: 25
Builder: Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow-in-Furness
Ordered: 14 September 1926
Laid down: Apr, 1927
Launched: 19 Jul, 1928
Commissioned: 3 Jul, 1929[1]
Torpedoed: 30 Jun, 1942

H.M.S. Medway was the first purpose-built submarine depot ship in the Royal Navy.

Service

She served on the China Station before World War II, and moved to Egypt in 1940.

Captains

Dates of appointment given.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 254.
  2. The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 254.
  3. The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 254.

Bibliography