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| − | '''H.M.S. ''Amphion''''', completed in 1913 was the first ship of the [[Royal Navy]] lost in the war. | + | Light cruiser '''H.M.S. ''Amphion''''', completed in 1913, was the first ship of the [[Royal Navy]] lost in the war. |
Modern sources often treat her as a member of a three-vessel ''Active'' class, but we treat her as contemporary documents do, as one of seven ships of the [[Boadicea Class Cruiser (1908)|''Boadicea'' class]]. | Modern sources often treat her as a member of a three-vessel ''Active'' class, but we treat her as contemporary documents do, as one of seven ships of the [[Boadicea Class Cruiser (1908)|''Boadicea'' class]]. | ||
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| H.M.S. Amphion (1911) | |
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| Pendant Number: | N/A[1] |
| Builder: | Pembroke Royal Dockyard[2] |
| Ordered: | 1910 Programme[3] |
| Laid down: | 15 Mar, 1911[4] |
| Launched: | 1911[5] |
| Commissioned: | Mar, 1913[6] |
| Mined: | 6 Aug, 1914[7] |
| Fate: | in North Sea |
Light cruiser H.M.S. Amphion, completed in 1913, was the first ship of the Royal Navy lost in the war.
Modern sources often treat her as a member of a three-vessel Active class, but we treat her as contemporary documents do, as one of seven ships of the Boadicea class.
Service
Honours
On 2 October 1914, the Admiralty inserted into its Weekly Orders a note of "Appreciation of Conduct of Officers and Crews of Ships recently destroyed", mentioning this ship as one of six whose men displayed "exemplary steadiness and coolness... in face of imminent death".[8]
Captains
Dates of appointment given:
- Captain Frederic Charles Dreyer, 1 January, 1913.[9]
- Captain Thomas Drummond Pratt, 22 October, 1913.[10]
- Captain Cecil Henry Fox, April 1914.[11]
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 45.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 53.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 53.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 53.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 53.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 53.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 45.
- ↑ Admiralty Weekly Order No. 426 of 2 Oct, 1914.
- ↑ The Navy List (July, 1913). p. 278.
- ↑ The Navy List (April, 1914). p. 278.
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
Bibliography
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