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Although
not even 100
years ago, relating to the events
of 1914-18 is not
easy. Other wars since the 'War to
end all wars'
intrude and probably most of the
men who sailed and
served, were wounded or saw their
shipmates die in
them are few and far between, and
become less with
the few years remaining.
Fortunately some of their
ships survive. Not many, but
across the world,
representatives of just about
every ship type that
existed - dreadnought,
pre-dreadnought
battleships, monitors, armoured
cruiser, protected
cruisers, light cruiser, torpedo
boats, submarines. The most
disappointing lack
is that none of the dashing
destroyers of that time
exist, except for their
forerunner, the experimental
turbine-driven 'Turbinia'.
Many of
these veterans
are unknown, but some were the
most famous of their
time - Italian Commander Rizzo’s
tiny Mas.15 which sank
Austrian
dreadnought 'Szent Istvan', the
even lighter CMB.4 in
which British Lieutenant
Agar won an almost hush-hush
Victoria Cross against
the Bolsheviks, and in contrast
the mighty American
battleship 'Texas', sole
survivor of the ground-breaking
'dreadnoughts' of British Admiral
Fisher, which
served with the huge British Grand
Fleet at Scapa
Flow in 1917 and 1918. Even HM
light cruiser 'Caroline'
little known, but the sole
survivor of the greatest single
naval battle in
history - Jutland, in which men of
great courage and
leadership manoeuvred huge fleets
with limited
communications and almost
unbelievable skill amidst
the smoke, dark and confusion of
this North Sea
battleground.
With
imagination,
visiting just one of these
preserved metal hulls
might do more than anything else
to bring to life the
reality of the many warships built
and often sunk,
and the hundreds and even
thousands of men who died
with them:
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BY
COUNTRY
Australia
- Austria - Britain - Bulgaria
- Canada - Chile - Germany -
Greece - Holland - Italy
- Japan - Norway - Russian - Spain
- Sweden - Turkey
- United States
BY
TYPE
Dreadnought
- pre-dreadnought battleship
- old battleship - monitor -
armoured cruiser -
protected cruiser - light cruiser
- torpedo boat -
submarine - minelayer -
patrol/escort ship - coastal
craft
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BY
COUNTRY
(this section provides
more complete details)
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Australia
CERBERUS,
built 1870, 3,300 ton coastal
defence
monitor - Port
Melbourne, Victoria.
Restoration
is planned
Austria
U.20,
1916, 170t coastal submarine -
Heeresgeschichtliches
Museum, Vienna. Salvaged midships
hull and conning
tower
Britain
CAROLINE,
1914, 4,700t light cruiser -
Milewater Basin, Belfast,
Northern Ireland. Took part in
1916 Battle of
Jutland, later Naval Reserve ship.
CMB-4,
1916, 5t coastal motor boat -
Imperial War Museum, Duxford
Airfield, Cambridgeshire, England.
Took part in 1919
attacks on Bolshevik warships at
Kronstadt where her
CO won the Victoria Cross
Holland
No.1, 1901, 110t submarine -
Submarine Museum, Gosport,
Hampshire
M.33,
1915, 580t monitor - Portsmouth
Dockyard
TURBINIA,
1894, 45t experimental high speed
turbine ship -
Exhibition Park,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England.
Famous
for her unauthorised dash through
the rows of
warships assembled for Queen
Victoria’s 1897
Diamond Jubilee Review off
Spithead, Portsmouth
WARRIOR,
1861, 9,200t battleship -
Portsmouth Historic Dockyard,
Hampshire. First iron-hulled,
propeller-driven,
watertight-compartment-fitted ship
of the line
Bulgaria
DRSKI,
1908, 97t first class torpedo boat
- Varna Naval Museum, Black
Sea coast
Canada
ARCADIA,
1914, 1,700t hydrographic
survey/patrol ship - Maritime
Museum, Halifax,
Nova Scotia
Chile
HUASCAR,
1865, 2,030t ironclad turret ship
- Talcahuano, south of
Valparaiso
Germany
U.1,
1906, 240t submarine - Deutsches
Museum, Munich
Greece
AVEROFF,
1911, 9,900t armoured
cruiser - Port
Faliro, Poros Island, south of
Athens
Holland
BONAIRE,
1877, 840t 4th class screw
steamship - Delfzijl, north
Holland at
mouth of River Ems
BUFFEL,
1868, 2,280t turret ram monitor -
Afdeling Maritime Museum,
Rotterdam
SCHORPIOEN,
1868, 2,140t turret ram monitor -
Den Helder, north of
Amsterdam
Italy
Mas.15,
1916, 16t anti-submarine motor
boat - Vittoriano Museum, Rome.
Under the command of Cdr Luigi
Rizzo,
"Mas.15" sank Austrian dreadnought
"Szent Istvan" in 1918
PUGLIA,
1901, 3,100t protected
cruiser - La
Spezia, Gulf of Genoa
Japan
MIKASA,
1902, 15,100t pre-dreadnought
battleship
(Maritime Quest) -
Yokosuka, south
of Tokyo
Norway
RAP,
1873, 7t torpedo boat - Marine
Museum, Horten
Russia
AURORA,
1900, 6,700t protected cruiser -
Neva
River, St Petersburg. She took
part in the Battle of
Tsushima and fired the first shot
of the Russian
revolution at St Petersburg
Spain
PERAL,
1890, 80t submarine - Spanish
Naval Academy,
Cartagena, southern Spain
Sweden
HAJEN,
1904, 110t submarine - Marine
Museum,
Karlskrona
Turkey
NUSRET,
1912, 360t minelayer
(reproduction) - Army-Navy
Park, Channakkale, Dardanelles.
During the allied
Naval attack on the Dardanelles in
1915, she laid the
row of mines that sank British
battleships
"Irresistible" and "Ocean",
French "Bouvet" and damaged
British
battlecruiser "Inflexible"
United
States
OLYMPIA,
1895, 5,860t, protected
cruiser -
Penn’s landing, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania
TEXAS,
1914, 27,000t dreadnought
battleship
(in 1919 - US Naval Historical
Centre) -
San Jacinto Battlefield State
Park, La Porte, Texas.
Served with the British Grand
fleet, 1917-18 as the
US flagship
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TYPE
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Dreadnought
TEXAS,
1914, 27,000t dreadnought
battleship -
San Jacinto Battlefield State
Park, La Porte, Texas, US
Pre-dreadnought
battleship
MIKASA,
1902, 15,100t pre-dreadnought
battleship - Yokosuka, Japan
Old
battleships
HUASCAR,
1865, 2,030t ironclad turret ship
- Talcahuano,
Chile
WARRIOR,
1861, 9,200t battleship -
Portsmouth, Hampshire,
England.
Monitors
BUFFEL,
1868, 2,280t turret ram monitor -
Afdeling Maritime Museum,
Rotterdam, Holland
CERBERUS,
built 1870, 3,300 ton coastal
defence
monitor - Port Melbourne,
Victoria,
Australia
M.33,
1915, 58t monitor - Hartlepool,
County Durham,
England
SCHORPIOEN,
1868, 2,140t turret ram monitor -
Den Helder,
Holland
Armoured
cruiser
AVEROFF,
1911, 9,900t armoured cruiser -
Port
Faliro, Poros Island, Greece
Protected
cruisers
AURORA,
1900, 6,700t protected cruiser -
Neva
River, St Petersburg, Russia
BONAIRE,
1877, 840t 4th class screw
steamship -
Delfzijl,
Holland
OLYMPIA,
1895, 5,860t, protected cruiser -
Penn’s landing, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania,
US
PUGLIA,
1901, 3,100t protected cruiser -
La Spezia,
Italy
Light
cruiser
CAROLINE,
1914, 4,700t light cruiser -
Milewater
Basin, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Torpedo
boats
DRSKI,
1908, 97t first class torpedo boat
-
Naval Museum, Varna, Bulgaria
RAP,
1873, 7t torpedo boat - Marine
Museum,
Horten,
Norway
TURBINIA,
1894, 45t experimental high speed
turbine ship - Exhibition Park,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
England
Submarines
HAJEN,
1904, 110t submarine - Marine
Museum, Karlskrona,
Sweden
No.1,
1901, 110t submarine - Submarine
Museum, Gosport, Hampshire,
England
PERAL,
1890, 80t submarine - Spanish
Naval
Academy, Cartagena, Spain
U.1,
1906, 240t submarine - Deutsches
Museum, Munich, Germany
U.20,
1916, 170t coastal submarine -
Heeresgeschichtliches Museum,
Vienna, Austria
Minelayer
NUSRET,
1912, 360t minelayer - Army-Navy
Park,
Channakkale,
Turkey
Patrol-escort
ship
ARCADIA,
1914, 1,700t hydrographic
survey/patrol ship - Maritime
Museum, Halifax, Nova Scotia,
Canada
Coastal
craft
CMB-4,
1916, 5t coastal motor boat -
Imperial
War Museum, Duxford Airfield,
Cambridgeshire,
England
Mas.15,
1916, 16t anti-submarine motor
boat -
Vittoriano Museum, Rome, Italy
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