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==Captains==
 
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Dates of appointment given.
 
Dates of appointment given.
* {{CommRN}} [[Frederick Avenel Sommerville|Frederick A. Sommerville]], D.S.O., 28 October, 1918, and in command of a submarine flotilla.{{NLJan19|p. 920a}}
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* {{CaptRN}} [[Charles Stuart Benning|Charles S. Benning]], December, 1920, and as Captain (S) in command of the [[China Submarine Flotilla]].{{NLJan21|p. 875}}
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==See Also==
 
==See Also==

Revision as of 11:31, 19 May 2014

H.M.S. Titania (1915)
Pendant Number: 7C (Jan 1916)
AC (Jan 1918)[1]
Builder: Clyde Shipbuilding[2]
Launched: 4 Mar, 1915[3]
Broken up: Sep 1949[4]

H.M.S. Titania was building as a civil vessel, but was purchased in 1915 and converted to a submarine depot ship.

Service

Titania completed conversion to a depot ship in November, 1915. She served the submarines of the Eleventh Submarine Flotilla at Blyth 1915-1918 as they supported the Grand Fleet.[5]

At the end of 1920, she was serving as flagship of the China Submarine Flotilla.[6]

Captains

Dates of appointment given.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 294.
  2. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 294.
  3. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 294.
  4. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 294.
  5. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 294.
  6. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 875.
  7. The Navy List. (January, 1919). p. 920a.
  8. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 875.

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).