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Revision as of 11:44, 16 January 2017

H.M.S. Pactolus (1896)
Pendant Number: D.08 (1914)
N.08 (Sep 1915)
N.77 (Jan 1918)[1]
Builder: Armstrong, Elswick[2]
Laid down: May, 1896[3]
Launched: 21 Dec, 1896[4]
Commissioned: Sep, 1898[5]
Sold: 1921[6]

H.M.S. Pactolus was completed as one of eleven Pelorus class cruisers, but served as a submarine depot ship in the Great War.

Service

She completed conversion to a submarine depot ship in September 1912,[7] and was commissioned on the 24th at Chatham.[8]

She serviced the boats of the Ninth Submarine Flotilla out of the Clyde from at least mid-1913[9] through the start of the war through September 1916.

She paid off on 21 July, 1919.[10]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. pp. 41, 294.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 83.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 83.
  4. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 83.
  5. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 83.
  6. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 83.
  7. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 294.
  8. ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 861.
  9. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 352.
  10. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 822.
  11. ↑ Foley Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/19. f. 247.
  12. ↑ Foley Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/19. f. 247.
  13. ↑ Tate Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/39. f. 1278.
  14. ↑ Tate Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/39. f. 1278.
  15. ↑ The Navy List. (May, 1903). p. 287.
  16. ↑ Crowther Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/160. f. 564.
  17. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1915). p. 366j.
  18. ↑ Crowther Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/160. f. 564.
  19. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 861.

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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