H.M.S. Onyx (1892)

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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.
  7. The Navy List. (April, 1897). p. 245.
  8. The Navy List. (March, 1901). p. 286.
  9. The Navy List. (January, 1904). p. 351.
  10. The Navy List. (April, 1910). p. 350.
  11. Leir Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/21
  12. The Navy List. (January, 1912). p. 350.
  13. The Navy List. (March, 1913). p. 350.
  14. The Navy List. (November, 1913). p. 307.
  15. The Navy List. (November, 1913). p. 351.

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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