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Revision as of 18:22, 31 May 2014

H.M.S. Bonaventure (1892)
Pendant Number: N.41 (1914)
N.11 (Jan 1918)[1]
Builder: Devonport Royal Dockyard[2]
Ordered: Naval Defence Act of 1889[3]
Launched: 2 Dec, 1892[4]
Commissioned: 5 Jul, 1894[5]
Sold: 12 Apr, 1920[6]
Fate: Scrapped

H.M.S. Bonaventure was completed in 1894 as one of eight Astræa class cruisers, but served as a submarine depot ship in the Great War.

Service

Bonaventure was refitted as a depôt ship by April, 1907.

In mid-1913, she was in Harwich supporting the Sixth Submarine Flotilla and Seventh Submarine Flotilla.[7]

She paid off 17 October, 1919[8] and was sold on 12 April, 1920, to the Forth Ship Breaking Company, Bo'ness.[9]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 293.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 77.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 77.
  4. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 77.
  5. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 77.
  6. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 293.
  7. The Navy List (July, 1913) p. 286.
  8. The Navy List. (December, 1919). p. 735.
  9. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 293..
  10. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  11. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  12. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  13. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  14. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  15. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  16. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  17. The Navy List. (October, 1915). p. 392l.
  18. The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 391v.
  19. The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 744.
  20. The Navy List. (July, 1919). p. 744.
  21. The Navy List. (October, 1919). p. 744.

Bibliography

  • Dittmar, F.J.; Colledge, J.J. (1972). British Warships 1914–1919. London: Ian Allan.


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