H.M.S. Onyx (1892)
From The Dreadnought Project
H.M.S. Onyx (1892) | |
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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
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 293.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 293.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 293.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 293.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 293.
- ↑ 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).