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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=James Edward Clifford Goodrich|nick=James E. C. Goodrich|appt=5 November, 1904<ref>Goodrich Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/18.|D7589442}} f. 537.</ref>|end=19 March, 1905<ref>Goodrich Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/18.|D7589442}} f. 537.</ref>}}

Revision as of 09:59, 10 March 2015

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.

She re-commissioned at Portsmouth on 15 October, 1912.[7]

In mid-1913, she was in Harwich supporting the Sixth Submarine Flotilla and Seventh Submarine Flotilla.[8]

She paid off 17 October, 1919[9] and was sold on 12 April, 1920, to the Forth Ship Breaking Company, Bo'ness.[10]

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. (January, 1915). p. 285.
  8. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 286.
  9. ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1919). p. 735.
  10. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 293..
  11. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  12. ↑ Inglefield Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/19. f. 199.
  13. ↑ Inglefield Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/19. f. 199.
  14. ↑ Montgomerie Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/19. f. 343.
  15. ↑ Montgomerie Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/19. f. 343.
  16. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  17. ↑ Day of month inferred from predecessor. Montgomerie Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/19. f. 343.
  18. ↑ Fraser Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/87. f. 100.
  19. ↑ Goodrich Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/18. f. 537.
  20. ↑ Goodrich Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/18. f. 537.
  21. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  22. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  23. ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1915). p. 392l.
  24. ↑ Donaldson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 230.
  25. ↑ Donaldson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 230.
  26. ↑ The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 391v.
  27. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 744.
  28. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1919). p. 744.
  29. ↑ 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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