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Revision as of 15:15, 8 February 2017

H.M.S. Campania (1893)
Pendant Number: P.54 (Apr 1915)
N.15 (Jan 1918)[1]
Builder: Fairfield[2]
Laid down: 1892[3]
Launched: 8 Sep, 1893[4]
Commissioned: 17 Apr, 1915[5]
Foundered: 5 Nov, 1918[6]

H.M.S. Campania was a former Cunard liner purchased when sent to the breakers and converted to a seaplane carrier for the Royal Navy.

Service

Campania was supposed to accompany the Grand Fleet when it sortied to fight the Battle of Jutland, but started off two and a half hours late. Mindful of the submarine threat faced by an unescorted vessel, Jellicoe ordered her to return to Scapa Flow.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 51.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 66.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 66.
  4. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 66.
  5. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 66.
  6. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 51.
  7. The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 392b.
  8. Hepper. British Warship Losses in the Ironclad Era: 1860-1919. p. 144.

Bibliography

British Aviation Ships
Experimental Cruiser Platform, 1913
Hermes
Seaplane Carriers from Converted Steamers
Ark Royal Empress Riviera Engadine Campania Pegasus
Ben-my-Chree Vindex Manxman Nairana Vindictive
Seaplane Carriers from Seized German Steamers
Anne Raven II
Flat Decked Conversions
Argus Furious
Through-Deck Carriers
Eagle Hermes
Kite Balloon Ships
Canning City of Oxford Hector Manica Menelaus