H.M.S. Vulcan (1889)

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H.M.S. Vulcan (1889)
Pendant Number: N.70 (1914)
N.4A (Jan 1918)[1]
Builder: Portsmouth Royal Dockyard[2]
Laid down: 18 Jun, 1888[3]
Launched: 13 Jun, 1889[4]
Sold: Sep, 1955[5]

H.M.S. Vulcan was completed as a second-class torpedo boat carrier, but was converted to a submarine depot ship before the Great War.

Service

Vulcan converted to a depot ship in 1908-09.[Citation needed]

She served with the Seventh Submarine Flotilla 1914-16, then for various flotillas at Humber, Berehaven and Blyth.[6]

Captains

Dates of appointment given.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 292.
  2. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 292.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 106.
  4. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 292.
  5. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 292.
  6. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 292.

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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