H.M.S. Ascot (1916)

H.M.S. Ascot (1916)
Admiralty Pendant Number:	881^[1]
Pendant Number:	T.16 (Sep 1918)^[2]
Builder:	Ailsa Shipbuilding Company^[3]
Ordered:	Sep 1915^[4]
Launched:	26 Jan, 1916^[5]
Torpedoed:	10 Nov, 1918^[6]
Fate:	by ^[7]

H.M.S. Ascot was one of thirty-two Ascot Class paddle minesweepers completed for the Royal Navy.

Service

Ascot operated out of Portsmouth as part of the humble Ninth Fleet Sweeping Flotilla in 1918 until she was torpedoed off the Farne Islands by UB 67 on 10 November 1918. She was the last British warship to be sunk by direct enemy action in World War I.

Captains

Acting Lieutenant R.N.R. in Command Archibald H. Douglas, 17 March, 1916^[8]^[9] – 7 October, 1916^[10] (invalided due to motor accident)
Acting Lieutenant R.N.R. in Command Edward J. Courthope, 7 October, 1916^[11]
Lieutenant R.N.V.R. in Command Donald MacDonald, – 10 November, 1918^[12] (killed when vessel torpedoed under his command)

Footnotes

↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 111.
↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 111. See this note for more info.
↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 111.
↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 111.
↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 111.
↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 111.
↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 111.
↑ Douglas Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 240/41/30. f. 15.
↑ The Navy List. (October, 1916). p. 392f.
↑ Douglas Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 240/41/30. f. 15.
↑ The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 391l.
↑ Hepper. British Warship Losses in the Ironclad Era: 1860-1919. p. 145.