H.M.S. Tyne (1878)

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H.M.S. Tyne (1878)
Pendant Number: N.76 (1914)
N.0A (Jan 1918)[1]
Builder: Armstrong[2]
Launched: 1878[3]
Foundered: 15 Nov, 1920[4]

H.M.S. Tyne was the former S. S. Mariotis, purchased on the stocks 8 March, 1878. She served as a depot ship for the Eighth Destroyer Flotilla in the Firth of Forth during the Great War.

Service

Re-commissioned at Devonport on 1 May, 1912.[5]

Armament

In November, 1914, reportedly:

  • four 12-pdr[6]

At some other time, perhaps:

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 292.
  2. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 292.
  3. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 292.
  4. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 292.
  5. The Navy List. (November, 1914). p. 360a.
  6. The Navy List. (November, 1914). p. 360a.
  7. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 292.
  8. The Navy List. (January, 1919). p. 922a.

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).