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|fg=white|bg=crimson}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''H.M.S. ''Tulip''''' was one of twelve [[Aubrietia Class Sloop (1916)|''Aubrietia'' Class convoy sloops]] completed for the [[Royal Navy]].
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|fg=white|bg=crimson}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''H.M.S. ''Tulip''''' was one of twelve [[Aubrietia Class Sloop (1916)|''Aubrietia'' Class convoy sloops]] completed for the [[Royal Navy]]. She was also used as a Q-ship, under the designation '''''Q.12''''' before she was renamed ''Tulip'' on 1 May, 1917.<ref>Lewis Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/57.|}} f. 59.</ref>
  
 
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{{LCommRN}} [[Edmund Laurence Braithwaite Lockyer|Lockyer]] was credited with sinking a submarine with her on 3 January, 1917,<ref>Lockyer Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/45/73.|D7603325}}  f. 73.</ref> but no known U-boat loss seems to correspond to this claimed sinking.<ref>[http://www.uboat.net/wwi/fates/losses.html UBoat.net page on WW1 losses].</ref>
  
 
==Captains==
 
==Captains==
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Edmund Laurence Braithwaite Lockyer|nick=Edmund L. B. Lockyer|appt=August, 1916<ref>Lockyer Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/45/73.|D7603325}}  f. 73.</ref>|end=14 January, 1917<ref>Lockyer Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/45/73.|D7603325}}  f. 73.</ref>|precBy=New Command|as=Captain of H.M.S. ''Q.12''}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Norman McCrea Lewis|nick=Norman McC. Lewis|appt=14 January, 1917<ref>Lewis Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/57.|}} f. 59.</ref>|end=30 April, 1917{{HepperLosses|p. 87}}|succBy=Vessel Lost|note=ship lost under his command|as=Captain of H.M.S. ''Q.12''}}
 
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Latest revision as of 12:09, 7 September 2021

H.M.S. Tulip (1916)
Builder: Richardson, Duck & Company[1]
Ordered: Jan, 1916[2]
Launched: 15 Jul, 1916[3]
Sunk: 30 Apr, 1917[4]
Fate: by U.62
H.M.S. Tulip was one of twelve Aubrietia Class convoy sloops completed for the Royal Navy. She was also used as a Q-ship, under the designation Q.12 before she was renamed Tulip on 1 May, 1917.[5]

Service

Lieutenant-Commander Lockyer was credited with sinking a submarine with her on 3 January, 1917,[6] but no known U-boat loss seems to correspond to this claimed sinking.[7]

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 95.
  2. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 95.
  3. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 95.
  4. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 95.
  5. Lewis Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/57. f. 59.
  6. Lockyer Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45/73. f. 73.
  7. UBoat.net page on WW1 losses.
  8. Lockyer Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45/73. f. 73.
  9. Lockyer Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45/73. f. 73.
  10. Lewis Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/57. f. 59.
  11. Hepper. British Warship Losses in the Ironclad Era: 1860-1919. p. 87.

Bibliography


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