H.M.S. Princess (1905)

From The Dreadnought Project
Revision as of 15:17, 11 January 2017 by Tone (Talk | contribs) (Captains)

Jump to: navigation, search
H.M.S. Princess (1905)
Pendant Number: MI.57
MI.91 (Jan 1918)[1]
Launched: c. 1905
Commissioned: 9 Jan, 1916[2]
Decommissioned: 10 Sep, 1917[3]
:

H.M.S. Princess was the former commercial liner Kronprinzessin Cecilie that was detained in Falmouth in 1914 and taken up to serve in the Royal Navy both as a dummy battleship Ajax and as an Armed Merchant Cruiser.

Service

She started as a mock version of the battleship H.M.S. Ajax, but ion October 1915, she was converted to an Armed Merchant Cruiser, recommissioning in that role on 9 January, 1916.[4]

Armament

She was armed with:[5]

  • eight 6-in guns
  • two 6-pdrs on H.A. mountings

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 120.
  2. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 120.
  3. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 120.
  4. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 120.
  5. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 120.
  6. The Navy List. (December, 1916). p. 401x.
  7. The Navy List. (August, 1917). p. 401x.

Bibliography

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