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Revision as of 19:07, 23 August 2014

H.M.S. Onyx (1892)
Pendant Number: D.07 (1914)
N.07 (Sep 1915)
N.75 (Jan 1918)[1]
Builder: Laird[2]
Launched: 7 Sep, 1892[3]
Sold: Aug, 1924[4]

H.M.S. Onyx was completed as a torpedo gunboat, but was converted along with her sister Hebe to submarine depot ship before the Great War.

Service

Onyx converted to a depot ship in 1908.[5]

She served with the First Submarine Flotilla at Devonport 1914-16, then as a base ship at Torbay in 1917 and 1918.[6]

Captains

Dates of appointment given.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 293.
  2. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 293.
  3. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 293.
  4. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 293.
  5. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 293.
  6. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 293.

Bibliography

  • Chesneau, Robert; Kolesnik, Eugene (editors) (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).


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