Difference between revisions of "H.M.S. Lusitania (1906)"

From The Dreadnought Project
Jump to: navigation, search
(make a custom footer for the many British AMCs)
(set customFooter variable to anything to keep FredBot from making automatic ones)
Line 9: Line 9:
 
|order=
 
|order=
 
|chain=NONE
 
|chain=NONE
 +
customFooter=yes
 
|name=Lusitania
 
|name=Lusitania
 
|laid=9 Jun, 1904<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Lusitania Wikipedia].</ref>
 
|laid=9 Jun, 1904<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Lusitania Wikipedia].</ref>
Line 57: Line 58:
  
 
chain=NONE
 
chain=NONE
 +
customFooter=yes
  
 
{ship
 
{ship

Revision as of 12:16, 7 January 2015

H.M.S. Lusitania (1906)
Builder: John Brown[1]
Yard Number: 367[2]
Laid down: 9 Jun, 1904[3]
Launched: 7 Jun, 1906[4]
Commissioned: 10 Aug, 1914[5]
Decommissioned: late Aug, 1914[6]
Torpedoed: 7 May, 1915[7]
Fate: by

H.M.S. Lusitania was a commercial liner, R.M.S. Lusitania converted for use as an Armed Merchant Cruiser in the Royal Navy. She reverted to civilian use before being armed and was later infamously torpedoed south of Ireland.

Service

Armament

Not fitted before return to civil use.[8][9]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Wikipedia.
  2. Wikipedia.
  3. Wikipedia.
  4. Wikipedia.
  5. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 120.
  6. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 102.
  7. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 120.
  8. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 120.
  9. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 102.

Bibliography

British Armed Merchant Cruisers
Alphabetic List of Ships to appear here...