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Introduction

"Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships" is an excellent series covering all the Navies of the World from 1860 on, down to a remarkable level of detail in mainly single volume works. Of particular interest to this project is the volume covering 1906-1921.

In the case of the Royal Navy ships, Conway's summarises the careers of capital ships, cruisers, monitors, carriers, together with some information on smaller vessels. The 1914-18 portions have been further summarised and are listed below by ship name or class.

The Conway's ship career summaries were referred to as part of the Zooniverse "Old Weather" log book project, and there were occasions (regrettably not noted) when the log book information did not confirm the summary information.

Note

Dates given are usually the start of joining a station, undergoing a refit, some episode in the ship's career etc. It is not always clear if the next date is the end of that episode. No attempt has been made to correct or enlarge the Conway's information. This can be checked against other sources, including the Naval-History.Net DB's.





SHIP LIST



24-class, fleet sweeping sloops - ten completed by armistice, served with sloop flotillas at Granton and Gibraltar (Cn)


A

A-class to E-class, destroyers – served in 6th (Dover), 7th (Humber), 8th (Forth) and 9th (Tyne) patrol flotillas, and Nore, Portsmouth, Devonport, Pembroke and Queenstown local defence flotillas (Cn)

ABDIEL, flotilla leader, after 8.15 - converted to a minelayer (Cn)

ABERCROMBIE (ex-Admiral Farragut, ex-M.1), monitor, 2.15 – renamed Admiral Farragut, 5.15 – completed, commissioned as Admiral Farragut, renamed Abercrombie; 24.6.15 - sailed for Dardanelles with cruiser Theseus, and in tow; 12.7.15 - arrived at Kephalo, flagship of supporting forces; engaged Turkish defences, hit frequently but not seriously damaged; 9.15 - formed into 1st Division, Special Squadron with sister ships; 1.16 – following evacuation of Cape Helles, to Imbros; occasionally engaged Turkish troops and positions; 5.16 - refitted at Malta, then returned to Imbros; 10.16 - in action on Salonika front; early 1917 - returned to Kephalo after supporting Aegean operations; 5.17 - refitted at Malta; 5.18 - refitted at Malta, guns replaced, but saw little action; late 8.18 - near-missed by same U-boat which torpedoed cruiser Endymion; 11.11.18 - passed through Dardanelles; 2.19 - returned home; 4.19 - to Immingham to await disposal (in C&M); 5.19 - paid off; 6.20 - disarmed at Portsmouth; 5.21 - sold for BU but retained by Admiralty, laid up at Portsmouth; 6.27 - resold and BU (Cn)

ABOUKIR, cruiser, ex-armoured cruiser, 8.14 - in reserve, joined Cruiser Force C in southern North Sea ('Broad Fourteens' Patrol); 22.9.14 - torpedoed and sunk by U.9 with sisters Cressy and Hogue (Cn)

ACHERON, destroyer, 10.3.15 – in company with Ariel and Attack, when Ariel rammed and sank U.12 off Aberdeen (Cn)

ACHILLES, cruiser, ex-armoured cruiser, as of 8.14 – 5th CS until 1919; 11.14 - gun explosion on board; 31.5.16 – refitting at time of Battle of Jutland; 16.3.17 - with Dundee, sank German raider Leopard in North Sea; 1917-18 - ocean escort duties; by 11.18 - reduced to Stokers' training ship; 7.20 - on sale list (Cn)

ACTIVE, light cruiser, ex-scout cruiser, 12.11 – completed; 8.14 – leader, 2nd Destroyer Flotilla, joined Harwich Force; 1915 - transferred to Grand Fleet; 1916-17 – leader, 4th DF at Portsmouth; 1917-18 - based at Queenstown (Cobb); until armistice - in Mediterranean; 1920 - paid off and sold (Cn)

ADELAIDE, light cruiser, 27.7.18 - launched; 8.22 – completed and commissioned (Cn)

ADVENTURE, light cruiser, ex-scout cruiser, as of 8.14 – with 6th DF, Dover; 5.15 - temporarily joined 6th LCS in the Humber; 7.15-11.17 - flagship at Queenstown; 26.12.15 - rescued crew of SS Huronian; 4-11.18 - escorted slow convoys to Gibraltar; 11.18 - to Mediterranean; 6.19 - short period in Aegean; 12.8.19 - paid off at Immingham; 1.20 - while laid up in the Humber, rammed by a Hull trawler; 3.20 – sold, towed to Morecambe by Skirmisher for BU (Cn)

AFRICA, battleship, 8.14 - joined the Grand Fleet with rest of 3rd BS (known as the 'Wobbly Eight'); 5.16 - moved from Scapa Flow to the Nore; 1917 – partly rearmed; 4.17-11.18 - attached to 9th Cruiser Squadron; 4.19 - reduced to accommodation ship. (Cn)

AGAMEMNON, battleship, 8.14 - served with 5th BS in Channel; 2.15 - to Dardanelles with Lord Nelson, took part in all bombardments, hit by over 50 shells; 1915-18 – after Gallipoli evacuation, stationed at Salonika, remained at Mudros or Salonika with Lord Nelson to guard against break-out by German battlecruiser Goeben; 5.5.16 - shot down Zeppelin LZ.85 at Salonika with a 6pdr; 1.18 – neither ship present when Goeben did break-out; Turkish Armistice signed on board; 2.19 - returned to Chatham; 4.23 - recommissioned after conversion to radio-controlled target (Cn)

AGINCOURT (ex-Turkish Sultan Osman I, ex-Brazilian Rio de Janeiro), dreadnought battleship, 8.14 – completed, taken over from Turkey; 7.9.14 - joined 4th BS, Grand Fleet; 1915 - to 1st BS; 31.5.16 – Battle of Jutland; late 1918 - joined 2nd BS; 1919 - put on disposal list; 1921 - recommissioned at Rosyth  for experimental work, then stripped for conversion to Mobile Naval Base or large depot ship; late 1921 - work stopped; 1922 - sold for BU (Cn)

AJAX, dreadnought battleship, 3.13 – completed; as of 8.14 – 2nd BS, Home Fleet; 8.14 - joined Grand Fleet; 31.5.16 – Battle of Jutland; late 1918 - to Mediterranean; 1919 - Black Sea in support of White Russians; remained with Mediterranean Fleet; 1924 – returned home, paid off into reserve at the Nore; 1926 - put on disposal list and sold (Cn)

ALADER YOUSANNOF, seaplane carrier, ex-Russian steamer, late 1918 – converted to seaplane carrier with two aircraft for service in Caspian Sea; 1.19 – commissioned; 1919 – in support of White Russians; 8.19 – transferred to White Russians (Cn)

ALBACORE, destroyer, to Scapa Flow Local Patrol Flotilla; later severely damaged, lost bow, but rebuilt (Cn)

ALBEMARLE, battleship, 8.14 - joined Grand Fleet, served with Northern Patrol; 2.15 - joined 6th BS, Channel Fleet and later the 3rd BS; 11.11.15 - heavily loaded with spare ammunition, badly damaged by bad weather in the Pentland Firth, losing her bridge; 12.15 - after repairs, returned to Scapa Flow, then sent to North Russia as an icebreaker to get supplies through to Archangel; 9.16-5.17 – rearmed; 5.17-11.18 - in reserve, overflow ship for Devonport naval barracks. (Cn)

ALBION, battleship, 8.14 - joined 8th BS, Channel Fleet, then to Cape of Good Hope and East Africa; 2.15 - to Dardanelles; 28.4.15 and 2.5.15 - damaged by Turkish shellfire during bombardments and grounding off Gaba Tepe; 10.15 - transported troops to Salonika, then Home, stationed on East Coast as guardship; 1918 - to Devonport, laid up as accommodation ship. (Cn)

ALERT, sloop, as of 8.14 – serving with Basra civil authority; 1915 – part of naval force in Shatt-el-Arab; 1.26 - sold to Basra Port Authority as pilot vessel; 10.49 – BU (Cn)

ALGERINE, sloop, 1914-18 - based at Esquimalt, Vancouver; 1915 - reduced to harbour service; 4.19 - sold for conversion to salvage vessel; 1924 – wrecked (Cn)

AMETHYST, light cruiser, ex-3rd-class cruiser, as of 8.14 – leader, Harwich Force and Destroyer Command, relieved by Arethusa just before Battle of Heligoland Bight on 28 8.14; rest of 1914 - with 1st LCS, Grand Fleet; 1915 - to Mediterranean, served at Dardanelles; 1916-18 - South America Station; 10.20 - sold for BU (Cn)

AMOKURA – see SPARROW

AMPHION, light cruiser, ex-scout cruiser, 3.13 – completed; 8.14 – leader, 3rd DF at Harwich; 6.8.14 – mined and sunk in southern North Sea (Cn)

AMPHITRITE, cruiser, ex-1st-class cruiser, 8.14 - joined 9th Cruiser Squadron; 2-6.15 - stationed at Cape Verde; 6.15 - laid up at Portsmouth, later started conversion to minelayer; 8.17 – conversion completed; 11.17 - replaced sister Ariadne on Dover Barrage, laid total of 5053 mines; 4.18 – with U.S. Navy, laying mines in Northern Barrage; 9.18 – in collision with destroyer Nessus; 6.19 - paid off (Cn)

ANDROMACHE, minelayer, ex-2nd-class cruiser, 1907 – one of seven of class which started conversion to minelayer; 1914-15 – minelaying operations out of Dover and Sheerness; from c1915 - depot ship in Mediterranean (Cn)

ANDROMEDA, Boys' training ship, ex-1st-class cruiser, as of 8.14 - Boys' training ship at Devonport; 11.19 - renamed Impregnable II; 3.29 - paid off; survived until 1956 (Cn)

ANNE seaplane carrier, ex-German merchant ship Aenne Rickmers, 8.14 - one of two German merchantmen (the other was Rabenfels, later Raven II) seized at Port Said; 1.15 - requisitioned for service as Aenne Rickmers under the Red Ensign; 1915 - operated two seaplanes, first two Nieuport seaplanes, then a Short 184 and Sopwith Schneider, in Eastern Mediterranean and Aegean with French pilots and British observers, served part of the time with the French seaplane squadron off Syrian coast; 11.3.15 – operating off Smyrna, torpedoed by Turkish TB, beached at Mudros, repaired by HMS Reliance and refloated; 5-6.15 - repaired at Alexandria; 8.15 – commissioned in Royal Navy and renamed Anne next day; 1915-17 - served in Port Said area and in Red Sea; 8.17 – paid off, became store carrier; 1.18-1.19 – fleet collier (Cn)

ANT, boom defence vessel, ex-bombardment ship, ex-miscellaneous duties, ex-iron gunboat, as of 1914 - miscellaneous duties; 8.14 - armed with 2-4.7in for bombarding Belgian coast; 1916 – disarmed, converted to boom defence vessel; 6.26 - sold for BU (Cn)

ANTELOPE, harbour service, ex-submarine tender, ex-torpedo gunboat, 6.10 - commissioned as submarine tender with Home Fleet; 1912 - reduced to harbour service at Devonport; 5.19 - sold for BU (Cn)

ANTRIM, cruiser, ex-armoured cruiser, as of 8.14 - flagship, 3rd CS, joined Grand Fleet; 6.8.14 - captured German merchantman; 9.10.14 - unsuccessfully attacked by U-boat; 6.16 - to Archangel; then to North America & West Indies Station; 12.17 - paid off; 8-11.18 – returned (? to North America & West Indies Station); 1919 - in reserve at the Nore, refitted as W/T and Asdic trials ship; 3.20 – recommissioned, carried out first sea trials of Asdic; 1922 - Cadets' training ship until paid off for sale (Cn)

APHIS, river gunboat, 11.15 - to Port Said until 4.16; 11.18 – on patrol on the Danube; 1920 – replaced by Glowworm; 1920 – laid up at Malta (Cn)

APOLLO, minelayer, ex-2nd-class cruiser, 1907 – one of seven of class which started conversion to minelayer; (wartime service as ANDROMACHE, as follows) 1914-15 – minelaying operations out of Dover and Sheerness; from c1915 - depot ship in Mediterranean; 1.18 – depot ship, 4th DF (Cn)

ARETHUSA, light cruiser, 8.14 - completed, commissioned mid month as flagship of new Harwich Force; 28.8.14 – at Battle of Heligoland Bight, badly damaged by gunfire; 25.12.14 – escort to Cuxhaven seaplane raid; 24.1.15 – at Battle of Dogger Bank; 4.15 – destroyer Landrail collided with light cruiser Undaunted in Heligoland Bight, Arethusa towed Landrail back; fitted with aircraft platform until removed 8.15; 6.15 – to 5th LCS; 7.15 - covered Borkum seaplane raid; 9.8.15 - took part in chasing and sinking of German minelayer Meteor; 8.15 - flagship, 5th LCS; 30.9.15 - captured three German trawlers; 7.10.15 - captured three more German trawlers; 11.2.16 - mined off Felixstowe and badly damaged, taken in tow but broke loose, ran aground on Cutler Shoal, broke her back (Cn)

ARGONAUT, cruiser, ex-1st-class cruiser, 8.14 - joined 9th Cruiser Squadron, stationed off Cape Finisterre until 7.15; 10.10.14 - captured German merchant ship Graecia; 10.15 - laid up at Portsmouth, hospital ship until 1917; 1918 – Stokers' accommodation ship; 1920 – sold (Cn)

ARGUS aircraft carrier, incomplete liner Conte Rosso; 8.16 – bought on the stocks; 2.12.17 – launched; 9.18 - completed and commissioned at Glasgow; 1919 – served with Atlantic Fleet. First aircraft carried were 18 Sopwith Cuckoo torpedo-dropping aircraft, followed by Sopwith Cuckoos (18 in 10.18), Sopwith Camel 2F 1s (1919), Sopwith 1 1/2-Strutter (1919), Sopwith Pup (1919), Parnall Panthers (1919-20), Nieuport Nightjars (1922), Fairey IIIB seaplane (1922), Fairey Flycatcher (No N163 for trials 2.23) (Cn)

ARGYLL, cruiser, ex-armoured cruiser, as of 8.14 – 3rd CS; 8.14 - joined Grand Fleet; 6.8.14 - captured German merchantman; 28.10.15 - wrecked on Bell Rock off Dundee (Cn)

ARIADNE, minelayer, ex-Stokers' training ship, ex-1st-class cruiser, as of 8.14 - Stokers' training ship at Portsmouth; 10.15 - transferred to Devonport; 1916-17 - converted to minelayer; 3.17 - recommissioned at Devonport, laid 708 mines in Dover Barrage and Heligoland Bight; 26.7.17 - torpedoed and sunk by UC.65 off Beachy Head (Cn)

ARIEL, destroyer, 10.3.15 - rammed and sank U.12 off Aberdeen in company with Attack and Acheron; 1917 - converted to minelayer, served with 20th Flotilla (Cn)

ARK ROYAL aircraft carrier, 5.14 - mercantile bulk carrier hull, bought on stocks; 9.14 – launched; first aircraft were two Type 807 Sopwith seaplanes, two Wright Pushers, one Short 135, two Sopwith Tabloid landplanes; early 12.14 – commissioned; 1.2.15 - sailed for Dardanelles; 17.2.15 – arrived Tenedos island; carried out reconnaissance flights during bombardment of Turkish forts; 3-4.15 – took part in many operations; 25.4.15 – covered Gallipoli landings from this date; end 5.15 – moved to protection of Imbros island, became depot ship for all aircraft there; 11.15 – to Mytilene island and Salonika; 3.16 – to Mudros, Lemnos island as parent ship, No 2 Wing, RNAS; 1.18 – two of her Sopwith Baby Seaplanes attacked German battlecruiser Goeben; after 11.18 – passed through Dardanelles to Syra as parent ship, operated in Black Sea; 1919 – in support of Somaliland campaign; 1920 – Sea of Marmora and Black Sea covering withdrawal of White Russian forces from Crimea; 11.20 – refit; 4.21 – in reserve at Rosyth (Cn)

ARNO, destroyer, 6.15 – completed, served in Mediterranean on escort duties (Cn)

ARROGANT, submarine depot ship, ex-2nd-class cruiser, as of 8.14 - submarine depot ship (had relieved Mercury) (Cn)

ASTREA, light cruiser, ex-2nd-class cruiser, as of 8.14 - Cape of Good Hope and West Africa Station until end of war; 8.8.14 - bombarded Dar-es-Salaam; 1914-15 - blockaded German Konigsberg in Rufiji Delta; 1.7.19 - paid off (Cn)

ATTACK, destroyer, 10.3.15 – in company with Ariel and Acheron, when Ariel rammed and sank U.12 off Aberdeen (Cn)

ATTENTIVE, light cruiser, ex-scout cruiser, early 1914 - transferred to 6th DF, Dover; 1914-18 - Dover Patrol; 25.4.18 - Zeebrugge Raid; 1918 - to Gibraltar for convoy escort duties, then to North Russia; 12.18 - paid off, sold for BU (Cn)

AUDACIOUS, dreadnought battleship, 10.13 – completed; as of 8.14 – 2nd BS, Home Fleet; 8.14 - joined Grand Fleet; 27.10.14 – mined and sunk off Lough Swilly (Cn)

AURORA, light cruiser, 9.14 - completed, commissioned as Leader, 1st Destroyer Flotilla, Harwich Force; 24.1.15 – at Battle of Dogger Bank; 2.15 – Leader, 10th Destroyer Flotilla until 6.15, in this time fitted with aircraft platform; 6.15 – to 5th LCS until 3.18; 9.8.15 - took part in chasing and sinking of German minelayer Meteor; 9.15 – captured German trawler; 10.15 – captured German trawler; 24.3.16 - covered Hoyer seaplane raid; 5.17 – fitted for minelaying, laid 212 mines in three trips including one in Kattegat in 3.18; 3.18 - to 7th LCS; 11.18 - present at surrender of High Sea Fleet; 3.19 - commissioned reserve at Devonport until 8.20; 9.20 - paid off for transfer to RCN; 1.11.20 – to RCN at Devonport; 1.7.22 into Care and Maintenance at Halifax (Cn)

AUSTRALIA, battlecruiser, 6.13 – completed; as of 8.14 – flagship, RAN; 8.14 – flagship, North America & West Indies Station; then flagship, combined Australian and New Zealand force in the Pacific to counter German Admiral von Spee's squadron; 12.14 - joined search for Germans supply ships following Battle of the Falklands; joined Grand Fleet as flagship, 2nd BCS; 4.16 - damaged in collision with New Zealand, missed Battle of Jutland; 1916-18 - remained flagship, 2nd BCS; 1919 - returned to Australia; 1922 - declared surplus to tonnage under Washington Disarmament Treaty; 12.4.24 - ceremonially scuttled off Sydney Heads (Cn)


B

B.6-B.11, submarines, 1914 - sent to the Mediterranean; autumn 1915 – not in service due to lack of spares; 1916/17 – arranged for Italian Navy to convert them into patrol boats at Venice; then served in Adriatic. Note: B.10 sunk during conversion (Cn)

BACCHANTE, cruiser, ex-armoured cruiser, 8.14 – to Humber as guardship, then flagship Cruiser Force C; 28.8.14 – at Battle of Heligoland Bight; 10.14 - escorted convoy to Gibraltar; 2.15 - to Suez Canal; 4.15 – to Dardanelles; late 1916 - returned to home waters; 2.17 - in collision with cruiser Achilles in Irish Sea; 4.17 - flagship 9th CS, Gibraltar until 11.18; 4.19 - paid off into reserve at Chatham; 4.20 - on sale list (Cn)

BARHAM, dreadnought battleship, 8.15 – commissioned; 10.15 – completed, joined 5th BS, Grand Fleet as flagship; 1.12.15 - collided with Warspite; 8-23.12.15 – repaired at Cromarty and Invergordon; 31.5.16 – Battle of Jutland, fired 337 shells and hit six times; 1.6-5.7.16 - under repair; 2-3.17 - refitted at Cromarty; 7-23.2.18 – refitted at Rosyth; 1920 -  became flagship 1st BS, Atlantic Fleet; from 1924 - Mediterranean Fleet; 1930-33 - partially modernised (Cn)

BEE, river gunboat, 11.15 - to Port Said until 4.16; 3.18 – sent out to Hong Kong (Cn)

BELLEROPHON, dreadnought battleship, 2.09 – completed; as of 8.14 – in service with 1st BS, Home Fleet; 8.14 - collided with merchantman, joined 4th BS, Grand Fleet; 31.5.16 – Battle of Jutland; 1919 - into reserve at Sheerness; turret drillship; 1920 - for disposal (Cn)

BELLONA, light cruiser, ex-scout cruiser, 6.09 – completed; 8.14 – attached to Grand Fleet, but not a LCS; 31.5.16 – Battle of Jutland; 6.17 - converted to lay mines, laid 306 in four trips; 1919 - paid off; 1921 – sold (Cn)

BEN-MY-CHREE, seaplane carrier, ex-short-sea passenger ship, 1908 – completed, owned by Isle of Man Steam Packet Co; 2.1.15 - requisitioned by the Admiralty, first of three 1915 requisitions (plus Vindex, Manxman. Unlike 8.14 requisitions, equipped with flying-off platforms to launch seaplanes with wheeled trolleys); converted by Cammell Laird at Birkenhead; commissioned, to Harwich for short period, then to Dardanelles, operated 4 Short 184s; 12.8.15 – Short 184 carrying 14in torpedo sank Turkish merchantman; 17.8.15 – another merchantman torpedoed and sunk; 9.15 - rescued 300 survivors from torpedoed liner Southland, towed her to Mudros; 1916 - based at Aden, returned to Aegean; anchored off Castellorizo, set on fire by Turkish artillery, blew up and sank (Cn)

BENBOW, dreadnought battleship, 10.14 – completed; 10.12.14 - joined 4th BS, Grand Fleet; flagship, Sir Douglas Gamble until replaced by Sir Doveton Sturdee in 2.15; 31.5.16 – Battle of Jutland; 1919-20 - to Mediterranean, provided gunfire support for White Russians in Black Sea; 1920-26 - remained in Mediterranean; 1926-29 - Atlantic Fleet; paid off for disposal and scrapped under Washington Treaty (Cn)

BERWICK, cruiser, ex-armoured cruiser, as of 8.14 - North America and West Indies Station; 10.9.14 - captured German merchantman Spreewald in South Atlantic; 1915-18 – patrol and convoy escort duties; 1919 - joined 8th LCS, before paying off (Cn)

BIRKENHEAD light cruiser, ex-Greek Antinavarhos Kontouriotis, 18.1.15 – launched; early 1915 – bought by Admiralty and renamed; 5.15 – completed; 1915 - to 3rd LCS, Grand Fleet, took part in Battle of Jutland; 1918 - fitted with aircraft platform forward, and kite balloon winch aft; 1919 – into reserve at Portsmouth; 5.20 – paid off (Cn)

BIRMINGHAM, light cruiser, 2.14 – completed; as of 8.14 - 1st LCS; 8.14 - sank two German merchantmen; 9.8.14 - rammed and sank U.15 in North Sea; 1.15 – Battle of Dogger Bank; 2.15 - joined 2nd LCS as flagship; 18.6.15 - attacked unsuccessfully by U-boat; 31.5.16 – Battle of Jutland; 1919-20 – flagship, 6th LCS; 1920-22 - Nore Reserve; 11.23 – flagship, 6th LCS, Africa Station, relieving Lowestoft (Cn)

BLACK PRINCE, cruiser, ex-armoured cruiser, 8.14 - captured German merchantman in Red Sea; 11.14 - stationed at Gibraltar; 12.14 - joined 1st CS, Grand Fleet; 31.5.16 – sunk at Battle of Jutland (Cn)

BLAKE, destroyer depot ship, ex-large cruiser, 1914-18 - served with Grand Fleet destroyers, 2nd DF, then 11th DF (Cn)

BLANCHE, light cruiser, ex-scout cruiser, 11.10 – completed; 8.14 – attached to Grand Fleet, but not a LCS; 31.5.16 – Battle of Jutland; 3.17 - converted to lay mines, laid 1238 in 16 trips; 1919 - paid off; 1921 – sold for BU (Cn)

BLAZER, ex-bombardment ship, ex-subsidiary duties, ex-iron gunboat, as of 8.14 - subsidiary duties, armed with 2-12pdr for bombarding Belgian coast; 1916 – disarmed; 8.19 - sold for BU (Cn)

BLENHEIM, destroyer depot ship, ex-large cruiser, 1914 - served with Mediterranean flotillas; 3.15 - to Mudros for Dardanelles operations (Cn)

BLONDE, light cruiser, ex-scout cruiser, 5.11 – completed; 8.14 – attached to Grand Fleet, but not a LCS, to 1919; 31.5.16 – not present at Battle of Jutland; 9.17 - converted to lay mines but none were laid; 1920 – sold (Cn)

BLOODHOUND, harbour service, ex-harbour service, ex-iron gunboat, as of 8.14 – harbour service, armed with 2-6pdr (?for bombarding Belgian coast); 11.15 – disarmed, returned to harbour service; 6.21 - sold for BU (Cn)

BOADICEA, light cruiser, ex-scout cruiser, 2.10 – completed; 8.14 – attached to Grand Fleet, but not a LCS; 31.5.16 – Battle of Jutland; 12.17 - converted to lay minelayer, laid 184 in three trips; paid off, reduced to harbour service at Dartmouth; 4.20 – to be renamed Pomone but order cancelled; 1926 – sold at Dartmouth (Cn)

BONAVENTURE, depot ship, ex-2nd-class cruiser, as of 8.14 - submarine depot ship; 4.20 – sold for BU (Cn).

BONETTA, destroyer, tender to submarine flotillas in the Clyde, later the Tyne (Cn)

BRAMBLE, steel gunboat, 1.20 - sold at Bombay for BU (Cn)

BRILLIANT, light cruiser, ex-2nd-class cruiser, 8.14 – laid up for disposal, recommissioned as depot ship, stationed on the Tyne; 1915 - moved to Lerwick; early 1918 - converted to blockship at Chatham, scuttled at Ostend (Cn)

BRISBANE (RAN), light cruiser, 11.16 – completed; 1916-17 - served in Pacific; later in 1917 – East Indies; 1918 - covered convoys, Australia to UK; 11.18 - joined Aegean Squadron; 1919 - returned to Australia; 6.28 - became training ship; 1935 - put on Disposal List (Cn)

BRISTOL, light cruiser, 12.10 – completed; as of 1914 - 5th Cruiser Squadron; 8.14 - joined 4th CS, to West Indies; 6.8.14 – brief encounter with German Karlsruhe; sent to Falklands; 8.12.14 – Battle of the Falklands, captured German colliers with AMC Macedonia; rest of 12.14 - took part in hunt for German cruiser Dresden; then to Mediterranean; 1916-17 – service in Adriatic; 1918 – returned to South American waters; 6.19 - paid off into reserve at Portsmouth; 5.20 – placed on sale list; 1921 - sold (Cn)

BRITANNIA, battleship, 8.14 - joined the Grand Fleet with rest of 3rd BS (known as the 'Wobbly Eight'); 1.15 - ran aground on Inchkeith and severely damaged; 9.11.18 - torpedoed and sunk off Cape Trafalgar by UB.50. (Cn)

BRITOMART, steel gunboat, 1.20 - sold at Bombay for conversion to passenger vessel (Cn)

BULWARK, battleship, 8.14 - remained with 5BS, serving on Channel patrols; 26.11.14 - loading ammunition at Sheerness, destroyed by an internal explosion. (Cn)

BUSTARD, harbour service, ex-bombardment ship, ex-harbour service, ex-iron gunboat, as of 8.14 – harbour service, armed with 1-6in, 1-4.7in for bombarding Belgian coast; 10.16 – disarmed, returned to harbour service; 3.23- sold for BU (Cn)

BUZZARD, harbour service, ex-gunboat/sloop; as of 8.14 - harbour service as President; 1918 - lent to Marine Society; 9.21 - sold for BU (Cn)


C

C.26, C.27, C.32, C.35, submarines, 1916 - sent on Detached Service to Baltic, carried as deck cargo to Archangel, then by canal barge and rail to Lapvik, Gulf of Finland (Cn)

CADMUS, sloop, as of 8.14 - China Station; remained there; 8.20 - paid off at Hong Kong; 9.21 - sold for BU (Cn)

CAESAR, battleship, 1912 – 4th Division, Home Fleet with nucleus crew until outbreak of war. 8.14 - brought to full commission in 7BS in the Channel; 1915-18 - North America and West Indies Station, including Atlantic patrols; 1918 - to Mediterranean, passing through Dardanelles after Armistice to support operations in Black Sea against the Bolsheviks. (Cn)

CAIRO, light cruiser, 19.11.18 – launched; 10.19 – completed, to China Station as flagship; 1921 – to 4th LCS, East Indies; 5.22 - two men injured in gun explosion (Cn)

CALCUTTA, light cruiser, 9.7.18 – launched; 8.19 – completed, to North America & West Indies Station as flagship 8th LCS; 6.21 – continued as flagship; 9.23 – continued as flagship (Cn)

CALEDON, light cruiser, 3.17 – completed, to 6th LCS, Grand Fleet, then flagship (Commodore Cowan), 1st LCS; 17.11.17 - Heligoland Bight Action, hit by 12in shell; 1.19 - to Baltic; 4.19 - flagship 2nd LCS, Atlantic Fleet; 8.21 - relieved by Curacoa, recommissioned at Chatham for 2nd LCS; 1922 - Irish Patrol; 9.22 - to Mediterranean; 1.23 - to Memel during rebellion in Lithuania; 2.23 - collided with German pilot vessel at Cuxhaven (Cn)

CALLIOPE, light cruiser, 6.15 – completed, commissioned as flagship 4th LCS, Grand Fleet; 19.3.16 - severe boiler room fire; 31.5.16 – repaired in time for Battle of Jutland, received four shell hits; 1.9.17 – took part in sinking of four trawler minesweepers off Jutland coast; 1918 – fitted with forward flying-off platform and High Speed Sweeps; 3.19 - commissioned for 8th LCS, North America and West Indies Station; 10.19 - engine room fire off the Azores; 11.19 – repairs started at Devonport; 3.20 - recommissioned and returned to service with 8th LCS; 12.20 – returned to UK; 1.21 - paid off at the Nore (Cn)

CALYPSO, light cruiser, 6.17 – completed, to 6th LCS, Grand Fleet; 17.11.17 - Heligoland Bight Action, entire bridge personnel including CO killed by a shell; 11.18 - to Baltic; 26.12.18 - with sister-ship Caradoc, destroyers Vendetta, Vortigern, Wakeful captured Bolshevik destroyers Avtroil and Spartak off Reval; 3.19 – to 3rd LCS, Mediterranean; 8.22 - recommissioned in Mediterranean; 1.25 - recommissioned in Mediterranean; 8.27 - recommissioned in Mediterranean (Cn)

CAMBRIAN, ex-2nd-class cruiser, as of 8.14 - paid off and on sale list, but reinstated; 3.16 – completed fitting out as Stokers' Training ship at Devonport, renamed Harlech; 9.21 – renamed Vivid; 2.23 – sold for BU (Cn)

CAMBRIAN, light cruiser, 5.16 – completed, to 4th LCS until 1919; 1919-22 – to North America and West Indies Station; 8.22 – to 2nd LCS, Atlantic Fleet; 1922-23 – took part in Turkish Crisis; 6.24 – paid off from Atlantic Fleet for refit (Cn)

CAMPANIA seaplane carrier, ex-liner in hands of breakers, 27.11.14 – bought by Admiralty for Grand Fleet service, towed to Cammell Laird; 17.4.15 – conversion completed, commissioned, joined Grand Fleet; 6.8.15 - Sopwith Schneider made first flight from her deck; 11.15-4.16 – modified at Birkenhead, including fitted to launch kite balloon aft; 31.5.16 – missed signal to raise steam at time of Battle of Jutland; 5.11.18 – in Firth of Forth during gale, dragged anchors, drifted across bows of battleship Revenge, and foundered. Aircraft carried at various times - Sopwith Schneider (1915), Short 184 (1916), Sopwith 1.5-Strutter (Nos 9722, A 6919-6922, N5633, N5635, N5638) (1918); Fairey Campanias (Nos N1842, N1850, N2366, N2372, N2373) (1918) (Cn)

CANADA (ex-Chilean Almirante Latorre), dreadnought battleship, 9.15 – completed; 10.15 - joined 4th BS, Grand Fleet; 31.5.16 – Battle of Jutland; then transferred to 1st BS; 1919-20 - refitted to Devonport; 4.20 - returned to Chile as Almirante Latorre (Cn)

CANOPUS, battleship, 7.8.14 - commissioned in 8BS for service in the Channel; 23.8.14 - to Cape St Vincent as guardship; 10.14 - to South American Station as guardship at Port Stanley and Abrolhos Rocks, part of Rear-Admiral Cradock's force; 1.15 - to Dardanelles; 2 and 18.3.15 - took part in Dardanelles bombardments; 1915 – took part in blockade of Smyrna and IN main Gallipoli landings; early 1916 - returned to Home Waters, paid off at Chatham, served as accommodation ship until sold. (Cn)

CANTERBURY, light cruiser, 5.16 – completed; 1916 – to 3rd BCS, including Battle of Jutland; 1916-18 – with 5th LCS, Harwich Force; 5.6.17 - sank torpedo-boat S.20 by gunfire off Belgian coast; 1918-19 - Aegean and Black Sea; 11.19 - commissioned at Portsmouth for 1st LCS, Atlantic Fleet; 1920-22 - attached to Gunnery School, Portsmouth; 1922-24 – to Reserve at Portsmouth; 5.24 - recommissioned at Portsmouth for 2nd LCS, Atlantic Fleet (Cn)

CAPETOWN, light cruiser, 18.6.19 – launched, towed to Pembroke DYd for completion; 4.22 – completed, joined 8th LCS, North America and West Indies Station (Cn)

CARADOC, light cruiser, 6.17 – completed, to 6th LCS, Grand Fleet until 3.19; 15.8.17 – together with sister-ship Cassandra, ran aground on Fair Isle; 12.18 - to Baltic; 26.12.18 - with sister-ship Calypso, destroyers Vendetta, Vortigern, Wakeful captured Bolshevik destroyers Avtroil and Spartak off Reval; 2.19 (sic) – to 3rd LCS until 1.21; 3.23 – recommissioned with 3rd LCS; 2.26 – recommissioned with 3rd LCS (Cn)

CARDIFF, light cruiser, 6.17 – completed, to 6th LCS as flagship; 17.11.17 - Heligoland Bight action; 21.11.18 - led in German High Sea Fleet during surrender; 11.18 – Baltic flagship to early 1919; 1919 – 3rd LCS, Mediterranean until 1929 (Cn)

CARLISLE, light cruiser, 9.7.18 – launched; 11.18 – completed, joined Harwich Force; 3.19 – to 5th LCS, China Station; 1.21 – continued with 5th LCS; 2.23 – continued with 5th LCS (Cn)

CARNARVON, cruiser, ex-armoured cruiser, as of 8.14 - flagship 5th CS; 8.14 - to Cape Verde; 24.8.14 – captured German merchantman; 10.14 - to Montevideo; 12.12.14 – at Battle of Falklands; 3.15-11.18 - North America & West Indies Station; 2.16 - tore bottom plating on shoal near Abrolhos Rocks, repaired at Rio de Janeiro; 1919 - Cadets' training ship; 3.21 - put on sale list (Cn)

CAROLINE, light cruiser, 12.14 – completed, to 4th Destroyer Flotilla, Grand Fleet as leader; 2.15 – to 1st LCS to 11.15; early 1916 – to 4th LCS until Armistice; 31.5.16 – took part in Battle of Jutland; 6.19 – to East Indies with 4th LCS; 2.22 - paid off into Dockyard control; 2015 – extant as museum ship (Cn)

CARYFORT, light cruiser, 6.15 – completed; 8.15 – to 4th LCS, Grand Fleet; 4.16 - relieved Conquest in 5th LCS, Harwich Force; 1917 - flagship 7th LCS, Grand Fleet; 12.17 – in collision with SS Glentaise off Orfordness; 4.19 - to 2nd LCS, Harwich Force; 1920 - to Baltic with 2nd LCS; 4.21 - joined Atlantic Fleet; 1922 – on patrol in Irish waters during Civil War; 1922-23 - to Turkey during war with Greece; 9.23 - paid off into Reserve at Devonport (Cn)

CASSANDRA, light cruiser, 6.17 – completed, to 6th LCS, Grand Fleet; 15.8.17 – together with sister-ship Caradoc, ran aground on Fair Isle, towed to Lerwick for repairs; 11.18 - to Baltic; 5.12.18 – mined and sunk in Gulf of Finland with 11 dead (Cn)

CASTOR, light cruiser, 11.15– completed, commissioned as flagship, Commodore (D), 11th Destroyer Flotilla, Grand Fleet, damaged at Battle of Jutland with 10 casualties; 1919-20 – to Black Sea; 4.20 - recommissioned at Chatham for 2nd LCS, Atlantic Fleet; 1922 - Irish Patrol; 1923-24 - Gunnery School, Portsmouth; 1924-25 – to Reserve at the Nore (Cn)

CAVENDISH, building as light cruiser, end 1917 – to be converted to aircraft carrier, 17.1.18 – launched; 6.18 – renamed Vindictive; 10.18 – completed (Cn)

CENTAUR, light cruiser, 8.16 – completed, to 5th LCS Squadron, Harwich Force until 3.19; 1.17 –sinking of German torpedo boat S.30 off Schouwen Bank; 6.18 – mined, repaired at Hull; 12.18 - to Baltic; 3.19 – to 3rd LCS, Mediterranean; 6.20 - recommissioned at Malta; 3.22 - recommissioned at Gibraltar; 10.23 - into Reserve at Devonport; 1924-25 – refitted; 8.4.25 - recommissioned at Portsmouth as Commodore (D), Atlantic Fleet (Cn)

CENTURION, dreadnought battleship, 5.13 – completed; as of 8.14 – 2nd BS, Home Fleet; 8.14 - joined Grand Fleet; served throughout war with 2nd BS; 1919 - to Mediterranean for operations in Black Sea; 1924 – returned from Mediterranean, into reserve at Portsmouth; 4.26 - paid off (Cn)

CERES, light cruiser, 6.17 – completed, to 6th LCS including Baltic service from 11.18; 1919 – to 3rd LCS, Mediterranean, including Black Sea in 1920; 11.20 – recommissioned in Mediterranean; 9.22– recommissioned in Mediterranean; 4.23 - damaged in collision with destroyer USS Fox in entrance to Bosphorus (Cn)

CHALLENGER, light cruiser, ex-2nd-class cruiser, 8.14 - recommissioned in 9th Cruiser Squadron, based at Portland; 8 or 9.14 - captured German steamer Ulla Boog at entrance to Bristol Channel; 9.14 - to West Africa for Cameroons operations; 1915 – took part in Rufiji River operations against German Koenigsberg; 13.6.16 - with Pioneer, bombarded Dar es Salaam; remained in East Africa until Armistice; 4.19 – paid off after returning to Portsmouth; 5.20 - sold for BU (Cn)

CHAMPION, light cruiser, 12.15 – completed, to leader, 13th Destroyer Flotilla, Grand Fleet to early 1919; 1916 - at Jutland as Commodore (D); 1918 – fitted with winch for towing kite balloon; 1919 - briefly joined 2nd LCS; 1919-24 - attached to Vernon Torpedo School (Cn)

CHARYBDIS, light cruiser, ex-2nd-class cruiser, 8.14 - joined 12th Cruiser Squadron; 9.1.15 - damaged in collision, laid up at Bermuda; 1917 - commissioned for harbour service; 3.18 - converted to cargo carrier, on loan to mercantile operator; 1.20 - returned to RN; 1.22 - sold at Bermuda (Cn)

CHATHAM, light cruiser, 12.12 – completed; as of 8.14 – 2nd LCS in Mediterranean; outbreak of war - detached to Red Sea; 10.14 - captured German merchantman Prasident; 30.11.14 - discovered Konigsberg in Rufiji Delta, sank colliers to block her exit; 5.15 - to Dardanelles; 1916 to 1918 - flagship, 3rd LCS, Grand Fleet; 26.5.16 – mined and damaged off Norfolk coast, towed stern-first to Chatham for repairs; 1918-20 - into reserve at Nore; 11.9.20 - recommissioned in Royal New Zealand Navy (Cn)

CHESTER light cruiser, ex-Greek Lambros Katsonis, early 1915 – bought by Admiralty and renamed; 8.12.15 – launched; 5.16 – completed, joined 3rd LCS, Grand Fleet; 31.5.16 – took part in Battle of Jutland only three weeks after joining Grand Fleet, badly damaged; 1916 – refitted, returned to 3rd LCS until Armistice; 1918 - fitted with high speed sweep; 1919 – to reserve at the Nore; 5.20 – paid off (Cn)

CICALA, river gunboat, 1916/17 – rearmed, based in the Humber, English East coast in defence against Zeppelin attacks; 9.18 - one of four sent to North Russia for River Dvina operations; 1920 - towed from England out to Hong Kong (Cn)

CIRCE, minesweeper, ex-torpedo gunboat, 1909 – converted to minesweeper; 7.20 – sold for BU (Cn)

CLEOPATRA, light cruiser, 6.15 – completed, joined 5th LCS, Harwich Force; 2.16 - replaced Commodore Tyrwhitt's flagship when Arethusa was lost; 24.3.16 – too part in Tondern Raid, rammed and sank German torpedo-boat G.194, seriously damaged in collision with light cruiser Undaunted; 18.7.16 - in action with German destroyers; 4.8.16 - mined off Thornton Ridge; 1917 - repaired and modernised; 8.18 - recommissioned as flagship, 7th LCS, Grand Fleet until 3.19; 4-10.19 - joined 2nd LCS, Harwich Force, including Baltic operations; 1919-20 – to 1st LCS; 10.20 - recommissioned for Atlantic Fleet; 1921 - paid off into Nore Reserve (Cn)

CLIO, sloop, 8.14 - to Persian Gulf; captured German merchant ship Paklat; 1915 - Mesopotamian Campaign, covering Army operations on River Tigris; 1919-20 – served with Odin on blockade of Somaliland coast, landed a naval brigade to demolish one of the "Mad Mullah's" forts; 8.20 - paid off at Bombay; 11.20 - sold for BU at Bombay with Odin (Cn)

COCHRANE, cruiser, ex-armoured cruiser, as of 8.14 – with 2nd CS, to Grand Fleet; 31.5.16 – Battle of Jutland; 1917 - North America & West Indies Station; 5-9.18 – Archangel; 14.11.18 - ran aground in the Mersey, became a total loss (Cn)

COCKCHAFER, river gunboat, 1916/17 – rearmed, based at Brightlingsea, English East coast in defence against Zeppelin attacks; 9.18 - one of four sent to North Russia for River Dvina operations; 1920 - towed from England out to Hong Kong (Cn)

COLLINGWOOD, dreadnought battleship, 4.10 – completed; as of 8.14 – 1st BS, Home Fleet; 8.14 - joined Grand Fleet; 31.5.16 – Battle of Jutland; joined 4th BS; after armistice - to Devonport Reserve; served as gunnery training ships, paid off; BU to comply with Washington Treaty (Cn)

COLOMBO, light cruiser, 18.12.18– launched; 6.19 – completed; 7.19 – to 5th LCS, China Station; 3.22 – to 4th LCS, East Indies (Cn)

COLOSSUS, dreadnought battleship, 7.11 – completed; 8.14 - flagship, 1st BS, Grand Fleet; 31.5.16 – Battle of Jutland, only Grand Fleet battleship hit (two hits, five casualties); repaired, joined 4th BS; 1919-20 - Cadet training ship at Devonport (painted in Victorian black, white and buff livery); 1920 – stricken; 7.28 - sold for BU (Cn)

COMMONWEALTH, battleship, 8.14 - joined the Grand Fleet with rest of 3rd BS (known as the 'Wobbly Eight'); 12.14-2.15 – refitted; early 1918 – start of major reconstruction; 1919-21 - seagoing gunnery TS at Invergordon. (Cn)

COMUS, light cruiser, 1.15 – completed; 5.15 - joined 4th LCS, Grand Fleet; 29.2.16 - took part in sinking of raider Greif; 31.5.16 – took part in Battle of Jutland; 3-4.19 – joined 1st LCS, then refitted at Rosyth; 10.19 – recommissioned, joined 4th LCS, East Indies until 6.23 (? – see Portsmouth refit dates); 1921 - temporary flagship; 11.22-7.23 –refitted at Portsmouth (Cn)

CONCORD, light cruiser, 12.16 – completed, to 5th LCS, Harwich Force until 3.19; 10.19 - recommissioned at Devonport for 3rd LCS, Mediterranean Fleet; 8.21 – recommissioned in Mediterranean Fleet; 7.23 - paid off, later refitted at Devonport; 5.24 - commissioned for 3rd LCS, Mediterranean; 1925 - attached to Australian Station; 1925-26 – attached to China Station; 1926-27 – returned to 3rd LCS, Mediterranean; 10.27 – to Reserve at Portsmouth (Cn)

CONQUEROR, dreadnought battleship, 11.12 – completed; as of 8.14 - with 2nd BS; 8.14 - joined Home Fleet, to Scapa Flow; 27.12.14 - bows seriously damaged in collision with Monarch; 31.5.16 – Battle of Jutland; post-war - retained in Fleet, but listed for disposal under Washington Treaty; 1922 - sold for BU (Cn)

CONQUEST, light cruiser, 6.15 – completed, to 5th LCS, Harwich Force; 8.15 - took part in sinking of German Meteor; 3-4.16 - flagship 5th LCS; 25.4.16 - badly damaged by 12in shell during Lowestoft Raid; 5.6.17 - sank German destroyer S.20 off Belgian coast; 7.18 - damaged by mine; 13.7.18 – paid off for repairs until 4.19, into reserve at the Nore; 1921 – refit while still in reserve; 2.22 - recommissioned as SNO ship, 1st Submarine Flotilla, Atlantic Fleet (Cn)

CONSTANCE, light cruiser, 1.16 – completed, to 4th LCS, Grand Fleet, including Jutland; 1919 - to 8th LCS, North America and West Indies Station; 1.23 - recommissioned at Devonport (note: for North America?); 9.26 – started refit at Chatham (Cn)

CORDELIA, light cruiser, 1.15 – completed, joined 1st LCS, Grand Fleet, 31.5.16 – fought at Jutland; 1917 – to 4th LCS until 4.19; 6.19 - attached to Devonport Gunnery School, then into reserve at the Nore; 1.20 - recommissioned for 2nd LCS, Atlantic Fleet; 1922 - Irish coast patrol; 12.22 – paid off into reserve at Nore (Cn)

CORNWALL, cruiser, ex-armoured cruiser, 7.14 – took part in Test Mobilisation; joined 5th CS; 6.8.14 - captured German merchantman Syra; 9.11 - to South Atlantic, on patrol between Madeira and Pernambuco; 8.12.14 – took part in Battle of the Falklands, with Glasgow sank German light cruiser Leipzig; 1.15 - operations off South West Africa; 4.15 - to East Africa; then the Dardanelles; 1-4.16 - China Station; 1917 - convoy duty in the Atlantic; 9.17 - joined North America & West Indies Squadron until Armistice; 1919 - Cadets' training ship, later paid off for disposal (Cn)

CORNWALLIS, battleship, 8.14 - joined 6BS, Channel Fleet; 1.15 - to Dardanelles; 18.2.15 - first Allied warship to open fire on 18 February; 1915 - took part in all operations, during the final evacuation fired 500 rounds of 12in and 6000 rounds of 6in shell; 9.1.17 - hit three times by torpedoes from U.32 east of Malta and sank. (Cn)

COSSACK, destroyer – see GLATTON, monitor

COURAGEOUS, light battlecruiser, 1.17 – completed, commissioned, joined 3rd LCS Grand Fleet, then 1st LCS; 4.17 - converted to minelayer; 17.11.17 - action against German light forces in Heligoland Bight (with Glorious and Repulse), fired 92-15in shells, shared hit with Glorious on a cruiser; 23.11.17 - order given for removal of mine rails; after Armistice - attached to Gunnery School, later flagship of the reserve; 1924-28 - converted to aircraft carrier (Cn)

COVENTRY, light cruiser, 2.18 – completed, to 5th LCS Harwich Force, including Baltic service 12.18; 5.19 – to Atlantic Fleet; 1920 - HQ ship for Naval Inter-Allied Disarmament Commission; 1920 - refitted for 2nd LCS and as Rear-Admiral (D)'s flagship, Atlantic Fleet; 3.23 - torpedo explosion in Malta with two dead (Cn)

CRESCENT, cruiser, ex-1st-class cruiser, 8.14 – with Queenstown Training Squadron, joined 10th CS, Northern Patrol; 2.15 - to Hoy as guardship; 11.15 - paid off, disarmed as depot ship; 1917-18 - attached to Grand Fleet; 1920 - paid off at Rosyth. (Cn)

CRESSY, cruiser, ex-armoured cruiser, 8.14 - joined Cruiser Force C in southern North Sea ('Broad Fourteens' Patrol); 22.9.14 - torpedoed and sunk by U.9 with sisters Aboukir and Hogue (Cn)

CRICKET, river gunboat, 1916/17 – rearmed, based in the Humber, English East coast in defence against Zeppelin attacks; 9.18 - one of four sent to North Russia for River Dvina operations; 1920 - towed from England out to Hong Kong (Cn)

CUCKOO, tender, ex-iron gunboat, as of 1914 - hulked as tender to Vivid; 1.20 – renamed Vivid II; 1923 – renamed YC.37; 1959 - sold for BU (Cn)

CUMBERLAND, cruiser, ex-armoured cruiser, 7.14 – took part in Test Mobilisation; 8.14 - sent to West Africa; 27.9.14 - captured 10 German merchantmen at Duala in the Cameroons; 1.15 - returned home and joined 6th CS; 1915-18 - ocean escort duties; 4.20 - paid off at Queenstown (Cn)

CURACOA – see CALEDON

CURACOA, light cruiser, 2.18 – completed, to 5th LCS Harwich Force; 5.19 – to Atlantic Fleet as flagship 1st LCS, steering damaged by mine in Baltic, relieved by Delhi; 6.19 – started repairs at Chatham; late 1919 – to 2nd LCS, Atlantic Fleet; 8.21 - recommissioned as flagship; 1922-23 - Turkish Crisis (Cn)

CURLEW, light cruiser, 12.17 – completed, to 5th LCS Harwich Force; 1.19 - to Baltic; 5-6.19 - temporary service with 1st LCS, Atlantic Fleet; 8.19 - in reserve at Devonport, later moved to Rosyth to recommission; 4.20 - to 5th LCS, China Station; 11.22 - recommissioned for North America and West Indies Station; 1923 - escorted Repulse on Royal Tour (Cn)


D

DANAE, light cruiser, 6.18 – completed, joined 5th LCS, Harwich Force; 1919 – Baltic; 9.19 - 1st LCS, Atlantic Fleet (Cn)

DARTMOUTH, light cruiser, 10.11 – completed; as of 8.14 - East Indies; 8.14 - docked at Bombay; 10.14 - captured German tug Adjutant; 12.14 - operated in Indian Ocean; 1.15 - to join 2nd LCS, Grand Fleet, but stayed in South Atlantic to search for Karlsruhe, returned to West Indies; 2.15 - to Dardanelles; 5.15-1919 – 8th LCS at Brindisi; 15.5.17 - torpedoed and damaged by UC.25; 3.19 - recommissioned for 7th LCS, South America; 6.21 – in to Reserve at Devonport (Cn)

DAUNTLESS, light cruiser, 11.18 – completed (Cn)

DEFENCE, cruiser, ex-armoured cruiser, as of 8.14 – flagship, 1st CS, Mediterranean Fleet; 8.14 - took part in hunt for Goeben and Breslau; 9.14 - stationed off Dardanelles; then to South Atlantic to reinforce Admiral Cradock; 11.14 - diverted to Cape of Good Hope; 1.15 - flagship 1st CS, Grand Fleet; 31.5.16 – sunk at Battle of Jutland (Cn)

DELHI – see CURACOA

DELHI, light cruiser, 5.19 – completed (Cn)

DESPATCH, light cruiser, 9.19 – due to be launched, stuck on ways for two weeks, towed to Chatham DYd for completion; 6.22 – completed , joined 5th LCS, China Station (Cn)

DEVONSHIRE, cruiser, ex-armoured cruiser, as of 8.14 – with 3rd CS to 1916; 8.14 - to Scapa Flow; 6.8.14 – captured German merchantman; 9.14 - refitted at Cromarty; 4.16 - operating off Norway; 1916 - stationed at the Nore; 7.16 - joined 7th CS; 12.16 - North America and West Indies Station to end of 1918; 5.20 - put on sale list (Cn)

DIADEM, Stokers' training ship, ex-1st-class cruiser, as of 8.14 - Stokers' training ship at Portsmouth; 10.15 – taken out of service; 1.18 – returned to service; 1.21 - put up for sale (Cn)

DIAMOND, light cruiser, ex-3rd-class cruiser, 1914-15 - attached to 5th BS in Channel; 1915-18 – with reformed 5th BS, Grand Fleet; 1918 – Mediterranean, served as CMB carrier with six 40ft CMBs carried in davits; 5.21 - sold for BU (Cn)

DIANA, light cruiser, ex-2nd-class cruiser, 8.14 - joined Cruiser Force G in Channel; 6.8.14 - captured German schooner; 2.15 – joined 12th Cruiser Squadron, Channel; 11.15 - China Station; 8.17 - Red Sea and Indian Ocean; 11.18 - returned to Queenstown; 6.19 - paid off (Cn)

DIDO, depot ship, ex-2nd-class cruiser, as of 8.14 – depot ship, 3rd S/M Flotilla, Harwich; 1916 – depot ship, 10th Destroyer Flotilla until Armistice; joined Reserve Fleet at Portsmouth; 2.26 – paid off (Cn)

DIOMEDE, light cruiser, 29.4.19 – launched, towed to Portsmouth DYd for completion; 10.22 – completed, joined 5th LCS, China Station (Cn)

DOMINION, battleship, 8.14 - joined the Grand Fleet with rest of 3rd BS (known as the 'Wobbly Eight'); 8-9.15 - temporary flagship of Vice-Admiral; 5.16 - attacked unsuccessfully by U-boat; remainder of war based on the Thames; 4.18 - accommodation ship at Chatham. (Cn)

DONEGAL, cruiser, ex-armoured cruiser, 8.14 – with 3rd CS at Sierra Leone; 1.15 - joined 6th CS, Grand Fleet; 11.15 – with 7th CS escorting convoys to Archangel, White Sea; 5.16 - with 2nd CS; 9.16 - to 9th CS; 9.17 - to North America & West Indies Station; 6.18 - returned to Devonport, where she paid off (Cn)

DORIS, light cruiser, ex-2nd-class cruiser, as of 8.14 – Home Fleet; 5.8.14 - captured German merchantman; 1914 - joined 11th Cruiser Squadron, Mediterranean; 12.14 – sank Turkish merchantman; 1915 - to Dardanelles, later served in Aegean; 3.17 - East Indies Station until 11.18; 2.19 - sold at Bombay (Cn)

DRAGON, light cruiser, 8.18 – completed, joined 5th LCS, Harwich Force; 1919 – Baltic, then 1st LCS, Atlantic Fleet; 8.19 - with escort for Prince of Wales' visit to West Indies (Cn)

DRAKE, cruiser, ex-armoured cruiser, 7.14 – in reserve at Portsmouth, recommissioned for Test Mobilisation; 1.15 - joined 6th CS, Grand Fleet; 10.15 – started refit; 1916 – served as ocean escort, later refitted; 2.10.17 - torpedoed by U.79 off Rathlin Island, Northern Ireland and sank (Cn)

DREADNOUGHT, dreadnought battleship, 12.06 – completed; as of 8.14 – flagship, 4th BS Home Fleet; 8.14 - to Scapa Flow; 18.3.15 - rammed and sank U.29 while on sweep in North Sea, the only battleship to have sunk a submarine; early 1916 - major refit; 5.16 - flagship, 3rd BS (King Edward VII class) stationed at Sheerness; 3.18 - rejoined 4th BS, Grand Fleet as flagship; 7.18 - paid off; 2.19 - into reserve at Rosyth; 3.20 - put on sale list (Cn)

DRYAD, minesweeper, ex-tender, ex-torpedo gunboat, as of 1914 - tender to Navigation School, Portsmouth; 1914 - converted to minesweeper; 1914-15 - attached to 10th Cruiser Squadron, then to Lowestoft; 1.18 - renamed Hamadryad; 1920 – sold for BU (Cn)

DUBLIN, light cruiser, 3.13 – completed; as of 8.14 – 2nd LCS until end of 1914; 2.15 - to Dardanelles; 5.15 – to Brindisi; 9.6.15 – torpedoed and damaged by Austrian U-boat; 1916-18 – 2nd LCS, Grand Fleet; 31.5.16 – Battle of Jutland, hit during night action; 1.20 - commissioned for 6th LCS, African station; 4.20 – briefly in 3rd LCS, Mediterranean Fleet, then back to 6th LCS; 1924 - returned home to pay off into Nore Reserve; 1926 – sold, ran aground on way to breakers; 7.27 - refloated (Cn)

DUKE OF EDINBURGH, cruiser, ex-armoured cruiser, as of 1914 – 1st CS, Mediterranean Fleet; 8.14 - captured German merchantman in Red Sea; 11.14 - to Persian Gulf; 12.14 - joined 1st CS, Grand Fleet; 31.5.16 – at Battle of Jutland; 6.16 - joined 2nd CS; 1917 - escorted Atlantic convoys; 8-11.18 - to North America & West Indies Station; 6.19 – returned to UK, stationed in the Humber at Immingham; 3.20 - put up for sale (Cn)

DUNCAN, battleship, 8.14 - joined 6th BS, 2nd Fleet, worked with Northern Patrol; 11.15 - joined 3rd BS, moved later to Portland and Dover; 1915 - to Mediterranean, but played no major part in the Dardanelles operations; 1917 - returned home, into reserve to provide manpower for other ships. (Cn)

DUNEDIN, light cruiser, 9.19 – completed; 10.20 - commissioned for 1st LCS, Atlantic Fleet; 5.24 – transferred to RNZN until 3.37 (Cn)

DURBAN, light cruiser, 29.5.19 – launched, towed to Devonport for completion; 11.21 – completed, joined 5th LCS, China Station (Cn)

DWARF, steel gunboat, 7.26 - sold with Thistle for BU (Cn)


E

E-class destroyers, 8.14 – apart from seven China Station ships, mostly served in UK Patrol Flotillas (Cn)E-class destroyers CHELMER, COLNE, JED, KENNET, RIBBLE, USK, WELLAND, 8.14 – China Station; after fall of Tsingtao, sent to Mediterranean (Cn)

EAGLE, aircraft carrier, ex-incomplete Chilean battleship Almirante Cochrane, 20.2.13 – laid down by Armstrong, 28.2.18 – hull bought, ship renamed Eagle; 8.6.18 – launched; 11.18 – work virtually stopped due to industrial disputes until 3.19; 10.19 – officially suspended by Admiralty, and consideration given to completing as battleship for resale to Chile; 11.19 – approval given to continue construction as carrier; 3.20 – completed sufficiently to leave yard; 4.20 started trials at Portsmouth; 10.20 – paid off to Devonport DYd; 3.21 – to Portsmouth to complete by 8.22; 9.23 – went to sea (Cn)

EARL OF PETERBOROUGH (M.8), monitor, 9.15 – commissioned; 10.15 – completed with twin 12in turret from battleship Mars, sailed from Devonport for the Mediterranean; 11.15 - arrived Mudros; 2.16 - transferred to Mytilene Squadron at Port Iero; 8.16 - took part in Allied takeover of Greek Fleet; 11.16 - to Adriatic Squadron; 12.16 - arrived Venice; 5.17 - started bombarding Austrian positions; 8.17 - took part in 11th Battle of the Isonzo; continued in support of Italian Army; 3-6.18 - refitted at La Spezia;  then to Valona on Albanian front; after Armistice - to Venice as guardship; 2.19 - to Malta, then returned home; 3.19 - paid off, laid up at Immingham (Cn)

ECLIPSE, light cruiser, ex-2nd-class cruiser, early 1914 - escorted Australian submarines AE.1 and AE.2 to Singapore; 8.14 - joined Cruiser Force G in Channel; 10.8.14 – captured German merchantman; 10.9.14 – captured second German merchantman; 2.15 - joined 12th Cruiser Squadron; by 1916 - reduced to harbour service/accommodation ship for submarine flotillas; 1918-19 - laid up at Devonport; 8.21 – sold for BU (Cn)

EDGAR, cruiser, ex-1st-class cruiser, 8.14 - with Queenstown Training Squadron, joined 10th CS, Northern Patrol, class proved unseaworthy for Northern waters; end of 1914 - paid off, 9.2in guns removed for new monitors, later fitted with 6in gun and anti-torpedo bulges as bombarding ship for the Dardanelles; mid-1915 – arrived at Dardanelles (with sisters Endymion, Grafton, Theseus), remained in Mediterranean until Armistice; 11.18 - at Gibraltar; 1919 - returned to Queenstown, paid off. (Cn)

EFFINGHAM, light cruiser, 7.25 - completed (Cn)

EMERALD, light cruiser, 1.26 - completed (Cn)

EMPEROR OF INDIA, dreadnought battleship, 11.14 – completed; 12.14 - joined 4th BS, Grand Fleet; remained with 4th BS except for short period as flagship, 1st BS; 1919 - to Mediterranean; 1922 – refit; 1922-26 - returned to Mediterranean Fleet; 1926 - transferred to Atlantic Fleet; 1931 - sunk as gunnery target after being put on disposal list (Cn)

EMPRESS seaplane carrier, 11.8.14 – first of three fast Cross-Channel steamers (plus Riviera, Engadine) requisitioned by Admiralty, converted at Chatham DYd to operate three seaplanes; 25 8.14 – commissioned; 25.12.14 – Cuxhaven Raid; 1915 - modified by Cunard, Liverpool to operate four seaplanes; 10.15 – transferred from North Sea to Queenstown; 1916 – to Egypt, based at Port Said; 11.19 – returned to owners (Cn)

ENCOUNTER, light cruiser, ex-2nd-class cruiser, 1914-15 – serving with RAN, Pacific Station; 25.4.15 - captured German sailing vessel Elfriede; 1915-16 - China Station; 1916-18 - returned to Pacific Station; 5.12.19 – permanently transferred to RAN, receiving ship at Sydney; 5.23 - submarine depot ship, renamed Penguin (Cn)

ENDYMION, cruiser, ex-1st-class cruiser, 8.14 – with Queenstown Training Squadron, joined 10th CS, Northern Patrol; 2.15 - rearmed and bulged for service in the Dardanelles (see Edgar); 1918 - served in Aegean, returned to the Nore; early 1920 - she paid off. (Cn)

ENDYMION, late 8.18 - Abercrombie near-missed by the same U-boat which torpedoed Endymion, according to the Abercrombie summary (Cn)

ENGADINE seaplane carrier, 11.8.14 – last of three fast Cross-Channel steamers (plus Empress, Riviera) requisitioned by Admiralty, converted at Chatham DYd to operate three aircraft; 13.8.14 – commissioned (after two days?); 25.12.14 – Cuxhaven Raid; 1915 - modified by Cunard to operate four seaplanes; 1915-17 - with Grand Fleet; 4.5.16 – took part in attack on Zeppelin sheds at Tondern; 31.5/1.6.16 – during Battle of Jutland one of her seaplanes sighted the German High Sea Fleet but the message failed to get through. Towed damaged cruiser Warrior after the battle and saved 600 crew when she sank; 1918 - to Mediterranean; 11.19 - paid off. Aircraft carried at various times - Short 74 (1914), Short Folders (Nos 120, 121, 122) (October 1914), Short 184 (1916), Short 827, Short 830, Sopwith Schneider, Sopwith Baby (1916), Short 184s (Nos 8050, 8065, 9073, N2822, N2944, N9000, 8359 at Jutland) (Cn)

ENTERPRISE, light cruiser, 4.26 - completed (Cn)

EREBUS, monitor, 9.16 – completed, joined Monitor Squadron at Dover; 10.17 – docked, returned to duty; 28.10.17 - hit by German distance-controlled explosive boat (DCB) FL.12 carrying 1540lb charge, 50ft hole blown in the bulge, but little damage to hull; 21.11.17 - back in service; stayed at Dover until after Armistice; from 1.19 - tender to Chatham Gunnery School; 7.19 - to White Sea; 10.19 – on passage home, diverted to Copenhagen to support operations in Gulf of Finland; 11.19 – took part in destruction of German Iron Division at Libau; 31.12.19 - returned to Chatham; 8.21 - used in firing trials against German battleship Baden; paid off into C&M at Chatham (Cn)

ERIN (ex-Turkish Reshadieh), dreadnought battleship, 8.14 – completed; 9.14 - joined 2nd BS, Grand Fleet; 31.5.16 – Battle of Jutland; 1919 - became flagship, Nore Reserve; 1922 - sold for BU to meet Washington Treaty (Cn)

ESPIEGLE, sloop, as of 8.14 - East Indies Station; 8.14 - captured German merchantmen Rappenfels and Furth; 11.14 – serving on R Tigris, supporting Indian troops and sinking Turkish motor boat; 9.23 – sold for BU at Bombay (Cn)

ESSEX, cruiser, ex-armoured cruiser, as of 8.14 – 4th CS, West Indies, serving in North Atlantic; 10.8.14 - captured German merchantman; 7.9.16 - captured another German merchantman; 11.16-1.15(?) - in West Indies; from 1.16 (?) - stationed in Canary Islands; 5.16 - captured German merchantman; 4.21 - put on sale list (Cn)

ETTRICK, destroyer, 7.17 – mined, bows blown off (Cn) Sold 1919 River - Ettrick had her bows blown off by a mine, 7.17 (Cn)

EUROPA, cruiser, ex-1st-class cruiser, 8.14 - joined 9th Cruiser Squadron, stationed off Cape Finisterre as flagship until 6.15; 7.15 - flagship at Mudros until 1919; 3.20 - paid off at Malta (Cn)

EURYALUS, cruiser, ex-armoured cruiser, 8.14 - joined Cruiser Force C; 10.14 - escorted troop convoy to Gibraltar; 2.15 - to Suez Canal; 3.15 – Smyrna; 4.15 – Dardanelles; 12.15 - returned to Suez Canal; 1916-19 - flagship, East Indies; 1917 - supported Arab Revolt; end of 1917 - to Hong Kong, proposed conversion to minelayer cancelled; 1918 - paid off at Hong Kong; 4.19 - laid up in reserve at the Nore; 1.20 - put on sale list (Cn)

EXMOUTH, battleship, 8.14 - joined 6th BS, Grand Fleet, worked on Northern Patrol as part of the 3rd BS; 11.14 - to Portland, reformed the Channel Fleet with the Lord Nelsons and seven Formidable's; 21.11.14 and 5.15 - bombarded Zeebrugge after being fitted with extra-heavy nets; 1915 - to Dardanelles, flagship of Admiral Nicholson at Kephalo, only battleship allowed off the beaches after the torpedoing of Goliath, Majestic and Triumph; 1917 - returned home, paid off into reserve. (Cn)


F

F-class destroyers (Tribals), formed 6th Flotilla, from 2.14 – based at Dover (Cn)

F.1, F.2, F.3, submarines – mainly local defence (Cn)

FALCON, destroyer, 8.14(?) - bridge hit by German 8.2in shell off Ostend in; 24 killed out of total crew of 60 (Cn)

FALMOUTH, light cruiser, 9.11 – completed; 8.14 - joined 5th LCS, sank German merchantmen Fasolt, Ochtum, Borkum and Hude; 12.14 - joined 1st LCS as flagship; 2.15 – joined 3rd LCS at Rosyth; 31.5.16 – Battle of Jutland; then flagship 3rd LCS; 19.8.16 - screening Grand Fleet, damaged by torpedo from U.66, towed to Flamborough Head; 20.8.16 – next day, finally torpedoed and sunk by U.52 (Cn)

FANTOME, survey ship, ex-sloop, as of 8.14 - survey ship, 30.1.25 - sold at Sydney NSW (Cn)

FEARLESS, light cruiser, ex-scout cruiser, 10.13 – completed; 8.14 - leader 1st DF, Harwich Force to 1916; 1916 – leader, 12th Submarine Flotilla, Grand Fleet (K class) until end of war; 31.1.18 – in "Battle of May Island" rammed and sank K.17 (Cn)

FERRET, destroyer, 1917 - converted to minelayer, served with 20th Flotilla (Cn)

FLORA, ex-2nd-class cruiser, 1914 - on sale list; as of 8.14 - reduced to harbour service; 4.15 - renamed Indus II; 12.22 - sold (Cn)

FORESIGHT, light cruiser, ex-scout cruiser, 8.14 - with 6th DF, Dover Patrol; 10.14 – operations of Flanders coast, then 8th DF at Dover; 5.15 - temporary duty with 6th LCS in Humber; then to Mediterranean; 7.16 - served in Aegean; 11.16 - rescued survivors from hospital ship Britannic; 6.19 - returned to Chatham to pay off (Cn)

FORMIDABLE, battleship, 8.14 - remained in 5th BS; 1.1.15 - on Channel patrol off Portland Bill, torpedoed and sunk by U 24. (Cn)

FORWARD, light cruiser, ex-scout cruiser, as of 8.14 - attached to 9th DF as part of Shetland Patrol; 12.14 - present during German raid on Hartlepool; transferred to 7th DF in Humber; 5.15 – with 6th LCS temporarily in Humber; to Mediterranean; 6.16-early 1919 - service in Aegean; 4.19 - paid off at Sheerness (Cn)

FOX, light cruiser, ex-2nd-class cruiser, as of 8.14 - East Indies Station; 10.8.14 - captured German merchant ship Australia off Colombo; 11.8.14 - captured German merchant ship Holtenfels off Colombo; 1915-17 - served in East Indies and Egyptian waters; 1917-18 – in Red Sea; 3.19 – paid off (Cn)

FROBISHER, light cruiser, 9.24 - completed (Cn)

FURIOUS, harbour service, ex-2nd-class cruiser, as of 8.14 - laid up at Motherbank (note: VINDICTIVE, 3.12 - at the Nore, recommissioned at Portsmouth to relieve Furious as tender to Vernon); 6.15 - renamed Forte, attached to Vernon as a hulk (Cn)

FURIOUS, light battlecruiser, 19.3.17 - nearly complete at Elswick with after gun installed and forward gun still ashore, Admiralty decision to convert her to aircraft carrier, forward turret replaced by hangar and flight deck; 4.7.17 – new design completed; 7.17 - joined Grand Fleet, carried out trials until 11.17; 2.8.17 - Sqdn Cdr Dunning twice landed a Sopwith Pup on flying-off deck; 7.8.17 – Sqdn Cdr killed making further attempt; 17.10.17 – orders given to install after flight deck and hangar; 12.17 - into dock-yard hands for full conversion (Cn). Second entry as aircraft carrier, ex-18in gun battlecruiser, 7.17 – completed as battlecruiser with 1-18in gun aft and flying-off deck forward; 1.9.17 – with flying operations too difficult, decision made to equip her with a full landing deck; 11.17 – returned to builders, remaining 18in gun removed and aft flying deck added; 15.3.18 - recommissioned at Rosyth, to Flying Squadron, Grand Fleet as flagship, Rear-Admiral Phillimore, Admiral Commanding Aircraft; 4.18 – landing trials began with Sopwith Pups using skid undercarriages, mainly unsuccessful, instead embarked 1 1/2-Strutters and 2F 1 Camels land planes for launching; 6.18 – attacked by two seaplanes during reconnaissance mission, drove them off with gunfire, launched two Camels which were recovered by destroyers; 19.7.18 - flew off 7 Camels in successful attack on Zeppelin sheds, Tondern; 1919 – to Baltic; 11.19 - into reserve at Rosyth (Cn)


G

G-class destroyers, 8.14 – in Mediterranean as 5th DF; late 1914 – six recalled to Home waters; later sent to Dardanelles, served temporarily as minesweepers; late 1917 – recalled to Home waters (Cn)

GABRIEL, flotilla leader, mid 1918 - converted to a minelayer (Cn)

GALATEA, light cruiser, 12.14 - completed, leader 2nd DF, Harwich Force; 2.15 - leader 1st Destroyer Flotilla at Rosyth until 9.18; 4.5.16 - shot down Zeppelin L.7 with sister-ship Phaeton; 31.5.16 – took part in Jutland, reported by wireless first sighting of High Sea Fleet, hit by one shell; 12.7.16 - missed by U-boat torpedo; 11.17 - fitted for minelaying, laid 220 mines on three trips; late 1918 - to Black Sea after Armistice; 10.12.18 – on passage, collided with and sank SS Moto off Northumberland; joined 1st LCS in Black Sea; 4.19 – returned home to join 2nd LCS; 3.20 - into reserve at Portsmouth (Cn)

GARRY, destroyer, 23 11.14 – U.18 damaged by trawler, then rammed and sunk by Garry; 19.7.18 - rammed and sank UB 110 off Yorkshire coast (Cn)

GENERAL CRAUFURD, (M.7), monitor, 8.15 – completed with twin 12in turret from battleship Magnificent; joined Monitor Squadron at Dover; 1915-18 – took part in numerous bombardments of Belgian coast; 11.18 - paid off at Sheerness; remained at Nore with Sir John Moore; 1.19 - recommissioned as gunnery tender to 1st Fleet; late 1919 - offered for sale to Rumania; spring 1920 - paid off, put on sale list (Cn)

GENERAL WOLFE (M.9), monitor, 10.15 – commissioned; 11.15 – completed with twin 12in turret from battleship Victorious; 12.15 - joined Monitor Squadron at Dover; 5.4-15.8.18 - rearmed at Portsmouth DYd with 18in gun; 9.18 - fired first 18in shells; 11.18 - paid off at Sheerness, laid up in C&M at Immingham; 1921 - sold (Cn)

GIBRALTAR, cruiser, ex-1st-class cruiser, 8.14 – with Queenstown Training Squadron, joined 10th CS, Northern Patrol; early 1915 – disarmed, converted to Northern Patrol depot ship; 6.15 – arrived as depot ship at Swarback Minns, Shetlands; later – with anti-submarine school at Portland; 1919-22 - destroyer depot ship (Cn)

GLASGOW, light cruiser, 9.10 – completed; 8.14 - to South America; 16.8.14 - captured German SS Catherina; 1.11.14 - Battle of Coronel, escaped with AMC Otranto, on to Port Stanley; 8.12.14 – Battle of the Falklands, sunk German Leipzig with cruiser Cornwall; 14.3.15 - found German Dresden at Juan Fernandez Island and sank her; to Mediterranean; 2 and 9.16 - took part in hunt for German raider Moewe; 1917-18 - with 8th LCS in Adriatic; 6.19 - at Gibraltar; late 1919 - returned to UK; 5.20 - paid off for disposal; 1921-26 - stokers TS, Portsmouth; 1.25 – disarmed; 3.26 - put on Disposal List; 1927 – sold (Cn)

GLATTON (ex-Norwegian coast defence ship Bjorgvin), monitor; 8.8.14 – launched; 31.8.18 - commissioned at Newcastle; 9.18 – completed; 11.9.18 - arrived Dover; 16.9.18 – caught fire in Dover harbour, could not be scuttled, torpedoed by destroyers Cossack and the Myngs; 5.25-3.26 – raised, BU in situ (Cn)

GLORIOUS, light battlecruiser, 1.17 – completed, commissioned as flagship 3rd LCS; then joined Courageous in 1st LCS; 17.11.17 - action against German light forces in Heligoland Bight (with Courageous and Repulse), fired 57-15in shells, shared hit with Courageous on a cruiser; 1919 - attached to Gunnery School at Devonport, later flagship of the reserve; 1924-30 - converted to aircraft carrier (Cn)

GLORY, battleship, 8.14 - joined 8BS in Channel, 10.14 - escorted Canadian convoy, then to North America and West Indies Station as flagship; 6.15 - to Mediterranean Fleet, covering Suez Canal, Egyptian waters and East Indies; 1916 - to Archangel as guardship; 1919 - returned to Rosyth. (Cn)

GLOUCESTER, light cruiser, 10.10 – completed; as of 8.14 – 2nd LCS, Mediterranean; 8.14 – took part in chase of Goeben and Breslau; 11.14 took part in hunt for Emden, returned to Mediterranean; due to join 2nd LCS, Grand Fleet, but detained off coast of Africa to search for German raider Kronprinz Wilhelm; 2.15 - joined 3rd LCS, captured German supply ship Macedonia; 4.16 - shelled Galway during Easter Uprising; joined 2nd LCS before Jutland; 12.16-Armistice – 8th LCS in Adriatic; 4.17 - detached duty in East Indies; 4.19 - paid off into reserve at Devonport; 3.20 - put on Disposal List; 1921 – sold (Cn)

GLOWWORM, river gunboat, 1916/17 – rearmed, based at Lowestoft, English East coast in defence against Zeppelin attacks; 9.18 - one of four sent to North Russia for River Dvina operations; 24 8.19 - badly damaged at Bereznik by exploding ammunition barge alongside; 1920 – replaced Aphis on the River Danube; 1920 – remained on Danube (Cn)

GNAT, river gunboat, early 1916 - towed out to Persian Gulf; 1918 – sent out to Hong Kong (Cn)

GOLIATH, battleship, 8.14 - commissioned in 8BS for service in the Channel, then to Loch Ewe as guardship; covered landing of marines at Ostend; 9.14 - to East Indies; 11.14 - took part in Rufiji River operations against German Konigsberg; 4.15 - to Dardanelles, provided gunfire support at Cape Helles; 25.4 and 2.5.15 – damaged; 13.5.15 - torpedoed and sunk by German-commanded Turkish torpedo-boat. (Cn)

GOOD HOPE, cruiser, ex-armoured cruiser, 7.14 – in reserve, recommissioned for Test Mobilisation; 8.14 - joined 6th CS with her three sisters (Drake, Leviathan, King Alfred); to South Atlantic as flagship of Admiral Cradock; 1.11.14 – lost at Battle of Coronel (Cn)

GORGON (ex-Norwegian coast defence ship Nidaros), monitor; 9.6.14 – launched; 5.18 - commissioned; 6.18 – completed, arrived Dover; carried out several bombardments of Belgian coastal batteries; 15.10.18 – fired last shell of the four years battle against the Belgian coast; 11.18 - to Portsmouth to await decision about disposal; 4.19 - to Devonport as temporary tender to Vivid; 8.19 - paid off; 9.19 - joined Devonport Reserve; 1921 – disarmed, used in further trials; 6.22 - towed to Portsmouth, used as target for bombs and shells (Cn)

GOSSAMER, minesweeper, ex-torpedo gunboat, 1909 – converted to minesweeper; 1912 - joined 1st Fleet; by armistice – with 13th Minesweeping Flotilla, Oban; 1920 – sold for BU (Cn)

GRAFTON, cruiser, ex-1st-class cruiser, 8.14 – with Queenstown Training Squadron, joined 10th CS, Northern Patrol; 2.15 – withdrawn, rearmed and bulged; mid-1915 - to Dardanelles; 11.6.17 - hit and damaged by torpedo, to Malta for repairs; 1918 - in Aegean; 1919 - to Black Sea as depot ship for British ships supporting White Russians; end 1919 - paid off (Cn)


H

H-class destroyers, 8.14 – served as 2nd DF (until spring 1916) with Grand Fleet; 1915 – six of class sent to Mediterranean; 1916 – five more of class to Mediterranean; 1918 – all survivors in Mediterranean (Cn)

H.1-H.10, submarines – completed May-June 1915, set new submarine record by crossing the Atlantic (Cn)

HALCYON, minesweeper, ex-Fishery Protection; ex-RNR drillship, ex-torpedo gunboat, as of 1914 - Fishery Protection service; 1914-15 - converted to minesweeper; 1920 – sold for BU (Cn)

HAMPSHIRE, cruiser, ex-armoured cruiser, as of 8.14 – China Station; 11.8.14 - captured German merchantman; took part in hunt for German light cruiser Emden; 12.14 - joined Grand Fleet; 1.15 – joined 7th CS; 11.15 - to White Sea to protect shipping; 1916 - serving with 2nd CS; 31.5.16 - took part in Battle of Jutland; 5.6.16 – mined and sunk off Shetlands while carrying Lord Kitchener and his staff on a mission to North Russia (Cn)

HANNIBAL, battleship, 8.14 - intended to recommission into 9BS, instead to Humber as guardship, later moved to Scapa Flow. Disarmed at Dalmuir to provide 12in turrets for new monitors Prince Eugene and Sir John Moore, converted to troopship (4-6in guns); 9.15 - to Mediterranean; 1916-19 - served in East Indies and Egypt. (Cn)

HARRIER, minesweeper, ex-tender, ex-torpedo gunboat, as of 1914 - tender to Navigation School, Portsmouth; then converted to minesweeper; 1920 – sold for BU (Cn)

HAVELOCK (ex-General Grant, ex-M.2), monitor, 2.15 – renamed General Grant; 5.15 – completed, commissioned as General Grant, renamed Havelock; to Dardanelles with cruiser Juno; 9.15 - joined 1st Division, Special Squadron; 1.16 - returned home after evacuation of Cape Helles; 5.16 - to Lowestoft as guardship against German raids; 6.17 - refitted on Tyne; apart from AA firing, saw no further action; 5.19 - paid off into C&M at Immingham; 6.20 - disarmed at Portsmouth; 5.21 – sold, stayed laid up at Portsmouth; 6.27 - sold for BU (Cn)

HAWKE, cruiser, ex-1st-class cruiser, 8.14 – with Queenstown Training Squadron, joined 10th CS, Northern Patrol; 15.10.14 - torpedoed and sunk by U.9 (Cn)

HAWKINS, light cruiser, 7.19 – completed, to China Station as flagship 5th LCS (Cn)

HEBE, submarine tender, ex-RNR drillship, ex-torpedo gunboat, 5.10 - commissioned as submarine tender; 22.10.19 - sold for BU (Cn)

HERCULES, dreadnought battleship, 8.11 – completed; as of 8.14 - 1st BS; 8.14 - transferred to 8th BS (sic) when she joined Grand Fleet; 31.5.16 – Battle of Jutland; 1916-18 – flagship, 4th BS; 11.18 - carried Allied Naval Commission to Kiel (Cn)

HERMES, aircraft carrier, 11.9.19 – launched, towed to Devonport to complete; 2.24 – completed (Cn)

HERMES, light cruiser, ex-2nd-class cruiser, 1913 - converted at Chatham to depot ship for Naval Wing of Royal Flying Corps, launching platform forward and stowage platform aft for 3 seaplanes (only 2 carried); 5.13 - recommissioned at Chatham, carried out trials and manoeuvres; 12.13 - paid off; 8.14 – flight equipment reinstalled; 31.8.14 – recommissioned, part of Nore Command; 31.10.14 - had been ferrying aircraft to France, torpedoed and sunk off Ruylingen Bank by U.27 (Cn)

HERMIONE, light cruiser, ex-2nd-class cruiser, 8.14 – paid off from West Atlantic, became guardship at Southampton; 12.16 - HQ ship for MLs and CMBs until 1919; 10.21 – sold; 1922 - resold to Marine Society; 12.22 - became training ship TS Warspite (Cn)

HIBERNIA, battleship, 8.14 - joined the Grand Fleet; 11.15 - to Dardanelles as flagship, Admiral Fremantle, stand-by battleship at Kephalo; 1919 - accommodation ship at Nore. (Cn)

HIGHFLYER, light cruiser, ex-2nd-class cruiser, 8.14 - joined 9th Cruiser Squadron; later to 5th CS; 27.8.14 - sank German raider Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse off Rio d'Oro; 1914 - to Cape Verde; 1916 - to West Africa; 1917 - to West Indies; 1918 – to East Indies; 3.19 - paid off at Bombay; 7.19 - recommissioned as flagship, East Indies Station; early 1921 - paid off; BU at Bombay (Cn)

HINDUSTAN, battleship, 8.14 - joined the Grand Fleet; 5.16 - stationed at Nore; late 1914 (sic – 1917?)-5.18 - stationed in Swin as depot ship for ships taking part in Zeebrugge and Ostend raids. (Cn)

HOGUE, cruiser, ex-armoured cruiser, 8.14 - joined Cruiser Force C in southern North Sea ('Broad Fourteens' Patrol); 28.8.14 – at Battle of Heligoland Bight, towed damaged light cruiser Arethusa home; 22.9.14 - torpedoed and sunk by U.9 with sisters Aboukir and Cressy (Cn)

HOOD, battlecruiser, 22.8.18 – launched; 5.20 – completed, commissioned as flagship, Battle Cruiser Squadron (Cn)

HOOD, battleship, 1911 - removed from Effective List, put into Material Reserve for use as target; 1913 - fitted with first experimental 'bulges' for protection against torpedoes; 8.14 - put on Sale List; 4.11.14 - scuttled to fill a gap in defences of Portland harbour. (Cn)

HOSTE, flotilla leader, 13.11.16 – delivered, to 13th DF, Home Fleet; 19.12.16 – in collision and lost 38 days later (Cn)

HUMBER, ex-Javary, monitor; 11.13 – completed, Brazilian Navy unable to afford them, laid up at Barrow; 3.8.14 – bought by Admiralty and taken over; 25.8.14 - ready for RN service; 29.8.14 – arrived Dover; 10-11.14 - took part in Belgian coast operations; 10.14 - repaired at Chatham DYd, stayed in Medway; 3.15 - left for Mediterranean with sisters Severn and Mersey in company with fleet messenger Trent; 29.3.15 - arrived Malta; 6.15 – only now arrived Gallipoli; 1.16 - refitted and rearmed at Alexandria, remained in Egyptian waters; 8.17 - guardship at Akaba until 2.18; 10.18 - to Mudros with Severn and Mersey; after Armistice - through Dardanelles, spent three months at Istanbul; 3.19 - returned home for refit; 20.5.19 - left Devonport for Murmansk; 9.19 - left Archangel in tow; 24.10.19 – paid off at Chatham (Cn)

HUSSAR, minesweeper, ex-torpedo gunboat, 1914/15 - converted to minesweeper; 1915-18 - Senior Officers ship, Mediterranean Minesweeping Force; 1921 – sold for BU (Cn)

HYACINTH, light cruiser, ex-2nd-class cruiser, as of 8.14 – flagship, Cape Station; 18.4.15 - intercepted German merchantman Rubens carrying supplies to cruiser Koenigsberg; 23.3.16 - sank SS Tabora at Dar-es-Salaam; 8.19 – after returning home, paid off at Portsmouth (Cn)


I

I-class destroyers, 8.14 – 1st DF with Grand Fleet; spring 1916 - attached to the 3rd BS; spring 1917 - to Portsmouth; majority then to Mediterranean (Cn)

ILLUSTRIOUS, battleship, 8.14 - commissioned as guardship, served at Loch Ewe, Lough Swilly, the Tyne and the Humber; 5.15 - joined Southern Fleet in the Channel; 1916 – disarmed, reduced to harbour service as ammunition ship on the Tyne; 1917 - moved to Portsmouth; 3.20 - paid off. (Cn)

IMPLACABLE, battleship, 8.14 - remained with 5BS, serving on Channel patrols; 3.15 - to Dardanelles; 25.4.15 and later – noted for giving very close support during Cape Helles landings and fighting; 5.15 - to Adriatic to reinforce the Italian Navy, but later to East Indies; 1917 - returned to Home waters, then served with Northern Patrol until the Armistice; 1919 - paid off. (Cn)

INCONSTANT, light cruiser, 1.15 – completed; 2.15 - joined 1st LCS at Rosyth, with Squadron until Armistice; 9.8.15 - took part in search for German minelayer Meteor; 31.5.16 – took part in Jutland; 9.17 - fitted for minelaying, laid 370 mines in 5 trips; early 1919 - to Baltic as SNO ship; 4.19 - returned home, joined 2nd LCS, Harwich Force; 10.19 - paid off, then attached to 1st Submarine Flotilla, short period as flagship, Atlantic Fleet; 16.2.22 - paid off at Chatham (Cn)

INDEFATIGABLE, battlecruiser, 4.11 – completed; as of 8.14 – 2nd BCS, Mediterranean Fleet; 8.14 - took part in hunt for German Goeben and Breslau; 3.11.14 – at Dardanelles, bombarded Cape Helles, became Admiral Carden's flagship until 1.15; 1.15 - relieved by Inflexible; short refit at Malta; 2.15 - returned to Grand Fleet with 2nd BCS; 31.5.16 – blown up at Battle of Jutland (Cn)

INDOMITABLE, battlecruiser, 6.08 – completed; 1914 - transferred with Invincible to Mediterranean to form 2nd BCS; 7.14 - started refit at Malta, but ordered to ready for sea during Sarajevo Crisis; 8.14 - with Mediterranean Fleet in hunt for the German Goeben and Breslau; then blockaded the Dardanelles; 3.11.14 - bombarded Dardanelles outer forts with HMS Indefatigable; 12.14 - returned to Grand Fleet at Rosyth; underwent refit; 24.1.15 - Battle of the Dogger Bank, fired 134-12in shells at German Blucher, 2-12in at Zeppelin airship, towed damaged flagship Lion back to Rosyth; 1-3.15 – repaired after damage from electrical fire, joined 3rd BCS at Rosyth; 5.16 - joined Grand Fleet with sisters; 31.5.16 – Battle of Jutland, fired 175-12in shells; 6.16 - joined 2nd BCS, remained in the Squadron; 2.19 – to Nore Reserve; 3.20 - paid off (Cn)

INFLEXIBLE, battlecruiser, 10.08 – completed; as of 8.14 - flagship, C-in-C Mediterranean Fleet; 8.14 - led hunt for German Goeben and Breslau; 18.8.14 – ordered home; 9.14 - replaced New Zealand in 2nd BCS at Rosyth; 5.11.14 - sailed with Invincible for refit at Devonport; 11.11.14 – sailed for Falklands; 8.12.14 – Battle of the Falklands, destruction of German Admiral Spee's squadron, fired 661-12in shells; on return, sent to Mediterranean, relieved Indefatigable as flagship, C-in-C; 19.2.15 - bombarded outer Dardanelles forts; 15.3.15 – again bombarded outer Dardanelles forts; 18.3.15 – during attack disabled two Turkish 14in guns, some damage from Turkish gunfire; 19.3.15 – mined and seriously damaged, flooded forward, towed to Malta; 5.15 – repairs completed, returned to Rosyth, joined sister ships in 3rd BCS; 31.6.15 – Battle of Jutland; remained with 3rd BCS; 1.2.18 – "Battle of May Island", collided with submarine K.22; 11.18 - present at German Fleet surrender; 1.19 – to Nore Reserve; end 3.20 - paid off (Cn)

INSOLENT, harbour service, ex-iron gunboat, as of 8.14 – harbour service; 1.18 – in service as gate vessel; 1.7.22 – foundered in Portsmouth Harbour; 6.25 - wreck sold for BU (Cn)

INTREPID, minelayer, ex-2nd-class cruiser, 1907 – one of seven of class which started conversion to minelayer; 1916-17 - depot ship, including White Sea 1917; early 1918 - converted to blockship, scuttled at Zeebrugge (Cn)

INVINCIBLE, battlecruiser, 3.09 – completed; 3.8.14 - to Queenstown to guard against German fleet breakout; then to Humber, to form 2nd BCS with New Zealand; 28.8.14 - Battle of Heligoland Bight; 4.11.14 - ordered to Falklands with Inflexible; 11.11.14 – departed Devonport; 7.12.14 - arrived Port Stanley as flagship, Admiral Sturdee; 8.12.14 – Battle of the Falklands, destruction of German Admiral Spee's squadron, fired 513-12in shells; 1.1.15 - docked at Gibraltar for two month refit, rejoined Battlecruiser Force at Rosyth; 3.15 - joined by Indomitable; 6.15 – joined by Inflexible; ships formed 3rd BCS; 5.16 – refitted; detached with sisters to Scapa Flow for gunnery exercises, replaced 5th BS in Grand Fleet; 31.5.16 – blown up at Battle of Jutland, flag of Admiral Hood (Cn)

IPHIGENIA, minelayer, ex-2nd-class cruiser, 1906 – one of seven of class which started conversion to minelayer; 1916-17 - depot ship, including White Sea 1917; early 1918 - converted to blockship, scuttled at Zeebrugge (Cn)

IRON DUKE, dreadnought battleship, 3.14 – completed, as of 8.14 - flagship of Sir George Callaghan; 8.14 - became flagship C-in-C Grand Fleet until 11.16; 31.5.16 – Battle of Jutland with 2nd BS; remained with 2nd BS; 1919-20 - to Mediterranean, supported White Russians in Black Sea operations; 1920 - rejoined Mediterranean Fleet; 1926-29 - Atlantic Fleet; due to be scrapped under Washington Treaty, but disarmed and converted to training ship (Cn)

IRRESISTIBLE, battleship, 8.14 - remained with 5BS, serving on Channel patrols; 1915 - to Dardanelles; 26.2.15 onwards - gave gunfire support; 18.3.15 - mined in Erenkui Bay and sunk by gunfire.

ISIS, light cruiser, ex-2nd-class cruiser, as of 8.14 - serving in 4th CS; 5.8.14 - captured German merchantman; 2.15 - with 11th CS based in Ireland; 1916 – Bermuda; 12.16 - North America and West Indies Station until 11.18; 1919 - at Invergordon; 2.20 – sold for BU (Cn)


J

JASON, minesweeper, ex-torpedo gunboat, 1909 – converted to minesweeper; 7.4.17 - mined off West Coast of Scotland (Cn)

JUNO, light cruiser, ex-2nd-class cruiser, 8.14 - with 11th Cruiser Squadron in Ireland; 7.15 - Persian Gulf; 1.18 - East Indies; 11.18 - returned home; 3.20 – paid off at the Nore; 9.20 – sold for BU (Cn)

JUPITER, battleship, 8.14 - joined 7BS as guardship for the Humber, and later the Tyne; early 1915 - to Archangel as icebreaker; 2.15 – broke record as first ship to arrive so early in the year; 5.15 - returned to Channel Fleet; then served in East Indies and Egypt, remained in commission for special service; by 1918 - accommodation ship at Devonport; 1919 - paid off. (Cn)


K

K-class destroyers, 6.14 – all completed and joined 4th DF, with Swift as flotilla leader; 8.14 – 4th DF joined Grand Fleet; late summer 1916 – 4th DF to Humber; end of 1916 – to Portsmouth; spring 1917 – to Devonport; at Portsmouth some joined 6th DF and some to Dover Patrol (Cn)

KENT, cruiser, ex-armoured cruiser, as of 8.14 – refitting; 9.14 - to Falklands; 8.12.14 – at Battle of the Falklands, sank German light cruiser Nurnberg; 14.3.15 - with light cruiser Glasgow discovered German light cruiser Dresden at Mas a Fuera, off Chile and sank her; 3.15 - to China Station; 5.15 - returned home; 6.18 - escorted Channel convoys; 7.18 - to China; 1.19 - to Vladivostok, took part in Allied operations against the Russian Bolsheviks; 3.20 - put on sale list at Hong Kong (Cn)

KING ALFRED, cruiser, ex-armoured cruiser, 7.14 – in reserve at Portsmouth, recommissioned for Test Mobilisation; 8.14 - joined 6th CS; 10.15 - joined 9th CS, Grand Fleet; 1917 – covered Atlantic convoys; 1.18 – escorted US North Atlantic troop convoys with Leviathan (Cn)

KING EDWARD VII, battleship, 8.14 - joined Grand Fleet as flagship, 3rd BS under Vice-Admiral Bradford; 2.8.15 – rejoined on this date, having been relieved by Dominion (but see DOMINION dates); 6.1.16 - mined and sank off Cape Wrath. (Cn)

KING GEORGE V, dreadnought battleship, 11.12 – completed; as of 8.14 – flagship, Home Fleet; 8.14 - joined Grand Fleet, flagship of 2nd BS; 1919-23 – flagship, Devonport Reserve; 1923-26 - gunnery training ship; 12.26 - sold for BU (Cn)

KINSHA, river gunboat, as of 8.14 – China Station; 12.14 - paid off at Hong Kong, crews to other ships; post-war – recommissioned for service; 1920-21 - temporary flagship, Rear-Admiral Yangtze Flotilla until relieved by Bee; 1921 - sold (Cn)

KITE, harbour service, ex-bombardment ship, ex-harbour service, ex-iron gunboat, as of 8.14 – harbour service, armed with 1-6in, 1-4.7in for bombarding Belgian coast; 11.15 – disarmed, returned to harbour service; 5.20 - sold for conversion to dredger (Cn)


L

L-class destroyers, as completed joined 3rd DF at Harwich; 1915 – four of class to Mediterranean; 1916 – survivors recalled from Mediterranean; 1917 – survivors to Devonport and Portsmouth as convoy escorts (Cn)

LADYBIRD, river gunboat, 11.15 - to Port Said until 4.16; 11.18 – on patrol on the Danube until March 1922; 1920(?) – laid up at Malta (Cn)

LANCASTER, cruiser, ex-armoured cruiser, as of 8.14 – with 4th CS in West Indies; 1915 –returning home to join 7th CS, Grand Fleet; 4.16 - to Pacific; 1918 - became flagship, Eastern Squadron; 1919 - partially dismantled at Birkenhead before being put up for sale (Cn)

LANCE, destroyer, 17 10.14 – in company with light cruiser Undaunted and destroyers Legion, Loyal, Lennox sank German torpedo-boats S.115, S.117, S.118 and S.119 off the Texel (Cn)

LANCE, destroyer, 5.8.14 – light cruiser Amphion and flotilla intercepted minelayer Konigin Luise off Harwich. Lance fired first shot of the war at sea, just 13hrs after declaration of war (Cn)

LANDRAIL, destroyer, 8.15 - in collision with light cruiser Undaunted, very badly damaged and lost bow; towed home stern first by Mentor, took five weeks to repair (Cn)

LANDRAIL – see ARETHUSA

LATONA, minelayer, ex-2nd-class cruiser, 1906 – one of seven of class which started conversion to minelayer; (wartime service as ANDROMACHE, as follows) 1914-15 – minelaying operations out of Dover and Sheerness; 1917 - depot ship, Mediterranean; 12.20 - sold at Malta for BU (Cn)

LEDA, minesweeper, ex-Coastguard, ex-RNR drillship, ex-torpedo gunboat, 1909 – converted to minesweeper; 7.20 - sold for BU (Cn)

LEGION, destroyer, 11.16 – damaged by mine, converted to minelayer during her 6-month repair (Cn)

LEGION, destroyer, 17 10.14 – in company with light cruiser Undaunted and destroyers Loyal, Lennox, Lance sank German torpedo-boats S.115, S.117, S.118 and S.119 off the Texel (Cn)

LENNOX, destroyer, 17 10.14 – in company with light cruiser Undaunted and destroyers Legion, Loyal, Lance sank German torpedo-boats S.115, S.117, S.118 and S.119 off the Texel (Cn)

LEVIATHAN, cruiser, ex-armoured cruiser, 7.14 – in reserve at Chatham, recommissioned for Test Mobilisation; 8.14 - joined 6th CS; 12.14 - joined 5th CS; 1.15 - relieved by Defence, returned to 6th CS; from 10.15 - flagship, North America and West Indies Squadron; 1.18 – recommissioned as flagship; 1919 - paid off into reserve (Cn)

LION, battlecruiser, 5.12 – completed; as of 8.14 – Flagship, 1st BCS; 8.14 – joined Grand fleet; 28.8.14 - Battle of Heligoland Bight; 24.1.15 – Battle of Dogger Bank, fired 243 shells scoring 4 hits, she was hit by 16-11in/12in shells, and one 8.3in, seriously damaged, towed home by Indomitable; temporarily repaired at Rosyth, permanent repairs by Palmers, returned to service as flagship, newly constituted Battle Cruiser Force (BCF); 31.5.16 – Battle of Jutland, hit by 13-12in shells, magazine nearly blew up, seriously damaged; returned to Rosyth, Q-turret removed for repairs; 20.7-23.9.16 – went to sea without Q-turret; 11.16 – flagship, Rear-Admiral Pakenham, remained with battlecruisers until 1.18; 1919-23 - flagship 1st BCS; paid off under Washington Treaty; 1924 - sold for BU (Cn)

LIVERPOOL, light cruiser, 10.10 – completed; as of 1914 – 2nd LCS; 8.14 - joined 5th LCS; 26.8.14 – Battle of Heligoland Bight; 27.10.14 – present when mined battleship Audacious blew up, crew member killed by fragments; 11.14 - condenser trouble, refitted; 1.15 - joined 2nd LCS; 2.15 - joined 3rd LCS at Rosyth; took part in search for raider Kronprinz Wilhelm off West Africa; 6.15 - boiler repairs at Liverpool; 11.15 - to Brindisi until 1.18; 11.18 - Aegean Squadron; after Armistice - through Dardanelles; 1918-19 - Black Sea operations; 6.19 - into reserve at Devonport; 3.20 - paid off for disposal; 1921 – sold (Cn)

LOCUST, destroyer, from 8.14 - served with Scapa Flow Local Defence Flotilla (Cn)

LONDON, battleship, 8.14 - remained with 5BS, serving on Channel patrols; 1915 - to Dardanelles to replace losses; 5.15 - to Adriatic in support of Italian Navy, remained at Taranto; 1917 - returned home for conversion to minelayer, partly disarmed; 1.18 – joined 1st Minelaying Squadron; 1919 – serving as a reserve depot. (Cn)

LORD CLIVE (M.6), monitor, 7.15 – completed with twin 12in turret from battleship Magnificent, first of class to commission; 8.15 – joined Monitor Squadron at Dover (not to Dardanelles as originally intended); 5.12.17-6.4.18 - modified at Portsmouth to mount 18in gun, but returned to Dover without the gun; 7.18 - relieved Roberts at Yarmouth, then to Portsmouth to receive her 18in gun; 13.8.18 - rejoined Dover Patrol; 11.18 - paid off, laid up at Immingham; 9.20 - towed to Portsmouth; 10-11.20 - 18in gun removed and replaced by triple 15in open mounting to test muzzle blast and interference; 12.20 – recommissioned; 8.21 - paid off, laid up at Portsmouth until sold (Cn)

LORD NELSON, battleship, 8.14 – flagship, Channel Fleet, covering passage of BEF to France; 2.15 - to Dardanelles, flagship of Vice-Admiral Wester Wemyss until 22.12.15, then Sir John de Robeck until 6.16, flagship, Eastern Mediterranean and Aegean; 11.18 - after the Armistice passed through Dardanelles into the Black Sea, remained flagship until 4.19; 5.19 - returned home, paid off at Sheerness. (Cn)

LOWESTOFT, light cruiser, 4.14 – completed; as of 8.14 - 1st LCS; 8.14 - sank German merchantman Fernbellin; 1.15 – Battle of Dogger Bank; 2.15-1916 – flagship, 2nd LCS; 1916-19 – flagship, 8th LCS, Mediterranean; 1919-24 – 6th LCS, Africa Station; 8.21 - flagship from this date (Cn)

LOYAL, destroyer, 17 10.14 – in company with light cruiser Undaunted and destroyers Legion, Lennox, Lance sank German torpedo-boats S.115, S.117, S.118 and S.119 off the Texel (Cn)


M

M-class destroyers, 1914-17 - served with Harwich Force; 1916-17 – four of class to Dover Patrol; 1917-18 – most of class to Mediterranean; returned to Grand Fleet or Dover Patrol (Cn)

M-class, Repeat, destroyers, all but four of class with Grand Fleet flotillas; 1.16 – 15 with 11th DF, 5 with 12th DF; early 1917 – (16,18, 25 respectively – sic?) in 11th and 12th DF, 17 with 14th DF, 5 with 5th DF; 1917-18 – four in Mediterranean (Cn)

M.1, submarine – served briefly with 6th Flotilla until 10.18, then 11th Flotilla (Cn)

M.15, monitor, 6.15 – completed; 7.15 - towed to Malta with M.16, armed with spare 9.2in gun in store there; went on to Mudros; 1.16 – after Cape Helles evacuation, to Egypt to take part in defence of Suez Canal; 11.11.17 - torpedoed and sunk off Gaza by UC.38 (Cn)

M.16, monitor, 6.15 – completed; 7.15 - towed to Malta with M.15, armed with spare 9.2in gun in store there; 8.15 - to Imbros; 1.16 - to Mytilene; 11.17 - to Stavros until 10.18; early 1919 - paid off at Mudros; 1920 – sold for conversion to oil tanker Tiga (Cn)

M.17, monitor, 7.15 – completed, armed with spare 9.2in gun in store at Portsmouth, but transported to Hartlepool; 8.15 - served in Mediterranean until 10.18; 3.19 – Black Sea until 9.19; paid off at Mudros; 1920 - sold for conversion to oil tanker Toedjoe (Cn)

M.18, monitor, 7.15 – completed, armed with spare 9.2in gun in store at Portsmouth, but transported to Hartlepool; 10.15 - served in Mediterranean until 10.18; 4-6.19 - in Baltic; paid off at Malta; 1920 - sold for conversion to tanker Anam (Cn)

M.19, monitor, 6.15 – completed, armed with 1-9.2in from old cruiser Edgar; 7-12.15 - served in Mediterranean; 4.12.15 - badly damaged by gun explosion; early 1919 - paid off at Mudros; 1920 - sold for conversion to tanker Delapan (Cn)

M.20, monitor, 7.15 – completed, armed with 1-9.2in from old cruiser Gibraltar; 8.15-12.18 - served in Mediterranean; 1919 - paid off at Malta; 1920 - sold for conversion to tanker Lima (Cn)

M.21, monitor, 7.15 – completed, armed with 1-9.2in from old cruiser Theseus; 9.15-9.17 - served in Mediterranean; 10.17 - returned home to join Dover Patrol; 20.10.18 – mined twice off Ostend, towed back to Dover, sank about a mile from West Pier (Cn)

M.22, monitor, 8.15 – completed, armed with 1-9.2in from old cruiser Gibraltar; 9.15-12.18 - served in Mediterranean; 6-9.19 - Black Sea; then paid off at Malta; towed home to Portsmouth; 10.19 - converted to minelayer; 12.25 - renamed Medea; 1938 - sold for BU (Cn)

M.23, monitor, 7.15 – completed, armed with 1-9.2in from old cruiser Grafton; 10.15-5.17 - served in Mediterranean; 6.17-6.18 - Dover Patrol; ordered to North Russia for service with White Sea Squadron; 11.19 - returned to Sheerness; converted to RNVR drillship Claverhouse; 8.22 - stationed at Dundee; 1959 - sold for BU (Cn)

M.24, monitor, 10.15 – completed, armed with 1-9.2in from old cruiser Endymion; 10.15-6.18 - served with Dover Patrol; then White Sea until 9.19; 1920 - sold for conversion to tanker Satoe (Cn)

M.25, monitor, 9.15 – completed, armed with 1-9.2in from old cruiser Endymion; 9.15-6.18 - served with Dover Patrol; then White Sea Squadron; 16.9.19 – with M.27, blown up in Dvina River (Cn)

M.26, monitor, 10.15 – completed, armed with 1-9.2in from old cruiser Edgar; 11.15-12.18 - served with Dover Patrol; 1920 – paid off Portsmouth; sold for conversion to small tanker Doewa (Cn)

M.27, monitor, 11.15 – completed, armed with 1-9.2in from old cruiser Theseus; 12.15-12.18 - served with Dover Patrol; refitted at Chatham with triple 4in guns for service in White Sea; 5.19 – sailed for Archangel; 16.9.19 – with M.25, blown up in Dvina River (Cn)

M.28, monitor, 8.15 – completed, armed with 1-9.2in from old cruiser Grafton; from 9.15 - served in Mediterranean; 1918 - sunk with Raglan by German Goeben and Breslau at Imbros (Cn)

M.29, monitor, 6.15 – completed; 7.15-12.18 - served in Mediterranean; 5-12.19 – served in White Sea; paid off, towed home, laid up at Devonport; 9.23-1.25 - converted to minelayer; 12.25 - named Medusa (Cn)

M.30, monitor, 7.15 – completed; from 8.15 - served in Mediterranean; 1916 - blockading Gulf of Smyrna; 14.5.16 - sunk by shore batteries off Smyrna (Cn)

M.31, monitor, 7.15 – completed; 8.15-3.19 - served in Mediterranean; paid off at Mudros, towed home; 5-9.19 – served in White Sea; 1.21 - completed conversion to minelayer at Portsmouth; to Defiance, Torpedo School at Devonport; 12.25 - named Melpomene (Cn)

M.32, monitor, 6.15 – completed; 7.15-12.18 - served in Mediterranean; early 1919 - paid off at Mudros; 5-9.19 - White Sea Squadron; paid off for disposal; 1920 - sold for conversion to oil tanker Ampat (Cn)

M.33, monitor, 6.15 – completed; 7.15-11.18 - served in Mediterranean, 5-9.19 – served in White Sea; 5.24-2.25 - converted to minelayer at Pembroke; 12.25 - named Minerva (Cn)

MAGNIFICENT, battleship, 8.14 - commissioned for the 9BS, stationed in Humber, later moved to Scapa Flow as guardship; 2.15 - to Belfast to disarm, 12in turrets required for new monitors General Craufurd and Prince Eugene; 1915 - used as troop transport; 9.15 - took part in Suvla Bay landings; on return reduced to subsidiary duties; by 1918 - ammunition store at Rosyth; 1919 - paid off. (Cn)

MAGPIE, harbour service, ex-composite gunboat, as of 8.14 – harbour service; 1915 – rearmed, re-rated as gunboat; 10.15 - reduced to depot ship; 1921 - sold for BU (Cn)

MAJESTIC, battleship, 8.14 - commissioned at Devonport for 7BS; 10.14 - part of ocean escort for Canadian troop convoy, then served with Channel Fleet and Dover Patrol; early 1915 - bombarded Belgian coast; early 1915 – to Mediterranean as 'mine-bumper' in Dardanelles operations; 18 3.15 - took part in major bombardment; 26.5.15 - became flagship of Admiral Nicholson; 27.5.15 - torpedoed twice and sunk by U 21 while providing gunfire support off Gaba Tepe. (Cn)

MALAYA, dreadnought battleship, 2.16 – completed, commissioned at Newcastle, joined 5th BS, Grand Fleet at Scapa Flow; 31.5.16 – Battle of Jutland, slightly damaged; 4.7.16 - completed repairs; 22.11.18 - damaged in collision with destroyer Penn; 4.19 – to Cherbourg for Peace Celebrations; 1920 - carried Allied Disarmament Commission to inspect German ports; 1920-24 - Atlantic Fleet, then Mediterranean Fleet; 1921 - carried Prince Arthur of Connaught to India, made courtesy visit to Malaya; 1927-29 - partially modernised (Cn)

MANTIS, river gunboat, early 1916 - towed out to Persian Gulf; 1920 - towed from England out to Hong Kong (Cn)

MANXMAN seaplane carrier, ex-short-sea passenger ship, 1904 – completed, owned by Midland Railway Co; 1915 - requisitioned by the Admiralty, third of three 1915 requisitions (plus Ben-my-Chree, Vindex. Unlike 8.14 requisitions, equipped with flying-off platforms to launch seaplanes with wheeled trolleys); late 1915 - bought by Admiralty, converted at Chatham, with two hangars and a flying-off deck; 17.4.16 – commissioned, joined Grand Fleet at Rosyth; 10.17 - to Mediterranean; 12.19 - paid off; 1920 - sold to Isle of Man Steam Packet Co. Aircraft carried: Sopwith Baby floatplanes (January 1917); Sopwith Pups Nos 9913, 9943, 9945, N6431, N6444, N6455 (1917); Sopwith Camels Nos N6806, N6807, N6808 (1918); Short 184s Nos N1788, N1828, N2803, N2909 (1918) (Cn)

MARLBOROUGH, dreadnought battleship, 6.14 – completed; as of 8.14, second flagship, Home Fleet; 8.14 – joined Grand fleet as flagship, 1st BS; 31.5.16 – torpedoed and damaged at Battle of Jutland; repaired on the Tyne in three months; post-war - served in Mediterranean until 1926, then Atlantic Fleet until 1929; scrapped under Washington Treaty (Cn)

MARMION, destroyer, 19.12.16 – with Marvel, attempted to tow collision-damaged Hoste back to Scapa Flow (Cn)

MARS, battleship, 8.14 – due to join 9BS, but sent to Humber as guardship; 2.15 - arrived with Magnificent at Harland & Wolff's, Belfast to disarm, 12in turrets removed for new monitors Earl of Peterborough and Sir Thomas Picton; 9.15 - as troop transport, went to the Mediterranean; 1.16 - covered Anzac and Cape Helles evacuations; 1916 - paid off, depot ship at Invergordon. (Cn)

MARSHAL NEY (M.13), monitor, 8.15 – completed with twin 15in turret from dreadnought Ramillies then building, started trials; early 9.15 – arrived Sheerness; served with Monitor Squadron, Dover; 12.16 – "engine trouble and appalling steering finally proved incurable"; 15in turret removed for new monitor Terror, given lighter armament; 4.17 - permanent guardship against German destroyers raiding shipping in the Downs; 19.4.17 – missed by aircraft-dropped torpedo; 27.4.17 - drove off German destroyers during Ramsgate Raid; often in action against Zeppelins and bombers; 12.18 - towed to Sheerness, put on disposal list; 2-9.19 - retained as base ship for MLs at Queensborough; disarmed and tripod mast removed; 8.20 - replaced Arrogant as depot ship for Submarine School, Fort Blockhouse; from 7.22 - replaced Harlech (ex-Cambrian) at Devonport as Stoker Training Establishment; renamed Vivid (Cn)

MARSHAL SOULT (M.14), monitor, 10.15 – completed with twin 15in turret from dreadnought Ramillies then building, sailed from Tyne; 6.11.15 - joined Dover Patrol; 11.16-3.17 – 15in turret modified at Elswick; 1-4.18 - refitted at Portsmouth; late 10.18 - to Chatham, on to Portsmouth as tender, Gunnery School Excellent; 3.19 -– tender, Devonport; 3.21 - paid off, removed from Effective List (Cn)

MARVEL, destroyer, 19.12.16– with Marmion, attempted to tow collision-damaged Hoste back to Scapa Flow (Cn)

MASTIFF (renamed SNAPPER in 1914 to release name), harbour service, ex-bombardment ship, ex-harbour service, ex-iron gunboat, as of 8.14 – harbour service, armed with 2-4.7in, 1-12pdr for bombarding Belgian coast; by 1916 – disarmed, returned to harbour service; 11.31 - sold for BU (Cn)

MEDEA, destroyer, 6.15 - completed and joined 10th DF, Harwich Force (Cn)

MEDUSA, destroyer, 7.15 – completed and joined Harwich Force (Cn)

MEDUSA, ex-2nd-class cruiser, as of 8.14 - harbour hulk; 1914-18 - calibrating vessel at Bantry (Cn)

MELAMPUS, destroyer, 6.15 - completed, to Harwich as tender to 8th SM Flotilla (Cn)

MELBOURNE (RAN), light cruiser, 1.13 – completed; as of 8.14 - serving in Pacific; 8.14-1916 - North America and West Indies Station; 1916-Armistice – 2nd LCS, Grand Fleet 3.19 - left Spithead with destroyers Huon, Parramatta, Warrego and Yarra; 10.27 - relieved Sydney as flagship, RAN; 2.28 – sailed for UK; 4.28 - paid off at Portsmouth (Cn)

MELPOMENE destroyer, 8.15 - completed and joined 10th DF, Harwich Force (Cn)

MERLIN, survey ship, ex-sloop, as of 8.14 - survey ship; 3.8.23 - sold at Hong Kong (Cn)

MERSEY, ex-Madeira, monitor; 2.14 - completed, Brazilian Navy unable to afford them, laid up at Barrow; 3.8.14 – bought by Admiralty and taken over; 10-11.14 – after commissioning, took part in Belgian coast operations, then refitted at Chatham; 3-4.15 - towed to Malta, then diverted with sister-ships Severn for attack on German light cruiser Konigsberg in East Africa; 6-11.7.15 – took part in successful attack on Konigsberg; 3.16 - refitted at Durham; 3-5.18 – returned to Mediterranean in tow of fleet messenger Trent; 10.18 - to Mudros; after Armistice – to Black Sea and Danube; 5.19 – returned, to Devonport and paid off into Care & Maintenance; 7.19 - to Queenstown (Cobh) (Cn)

METEOR, destroyer, 1917 - converted to minelayer, served with 20th Flotilla (Cn)

MINERVA, light cruiser, ex-2nd-class cruiser, 8.14 - with 11th Cruiser Squadron in Ireland; 9.14 - joined 5th CS, captured Austrian merchantman off Finisterre; 11.14 - to Suez Canal; 11.15 (sic) - to Dardanelles; 17.4.15 - sank Turkish torpedo-boat Demir-Hissar off Chios; 1916 - to China Station; 1.17 - Red Sea and Indian Ocean; 3.17 - East Africa; 1919 - returned to Queenstown; 5.20 - put on sale list (Cn)

MINOTAUR, cruiser, ex-armoured cruiser, as of 1914 - flagship, China Station; 11.14 - escorted Australian troop convoys; then flagship at Cape of Good Hope; 12.14 – returned home to refit; early 1916 - joined 2nd CS; 31.5.16 – Battle of Jutland; 6.19 - paid off into reserve until sold (Cn)

MINSTREL, destroyer, 6.17 – transferred to Japanese Navy until 1919 (Cn)

MOHAWK, destroyer, 1918 - left Dover Patrol, attached to 10th Submarine Flotilla until Armistice (Cn)

MONARCH, dreadnought battleship, 3.12 – completed; 27.12.14 - in collision with Conqueror; 1925 – sunk as target (Cn)

MONMOUTH, cruiser, ex-armoured cruiser, 8.14 - commissioned for 5th CS, sent to Pernambuco; 1.11.14 – lost at Battle of Coronel (Cn)

MOORHEN, river gunboat, as of 8.14 – China Station; 12.14 - paid off at Hong Kong, crews to other ships; post-war – recommissioned for service; 8.33 - sold for BU at Hong Kong (Cn)

MOTH, river gunboat, early 1916 - towed out to Persian Gulf; 1920 - towed from England out to Hong Kong (Cn)

MUTINE, survey ship, ex-sloop, as of 8.14 – serving as survey ship; 8.14 - paid off at Bermuda; 12.17 - recommissioned as depot ship; 9.25 - RNVR drillship; 1932 – sold (Cn)

MYNGS, destroyer – see GLATTON, monitor

MYRMIDON, destroyer, from 8.14 – served with Dover Patrol (6DF) (Cn)


N

NAIAD, minelayer, ex-2nd-class cruiser, 1907 – one of seven of class which started conversion to minelayer; (wartime service as ANDROMACHE, as follows) 1914-15 – minelaying operations out of Dover and Sheerness; 1917 - depot ship, Tyne (Cn)

NAIRANA, seaplane carrier, 1.14 - ordered for Huddart Parker; 1915 – work suspended, launched to clear the slipway; 27.2.17 - requisitioned for completion as a carrier, landplanes to be accommodated forward, seaplanes aft, three main workshops installed, and a 95ft flying-off platform; 8.17 – completed; 25.8.17 – commissioned; 1918 - served with Grand Fleet; 1919 - White Sea, Archangel; 1920 - sold to Tasmanian Steamship Co. Aircraft carried: Beardmore SB 3Ds Nos N6105, N6108, N6110 (1917). Fairey Campanias (5, in White Sea), Sopwith Camels (2, in White Sea) (Cn)

NATAL, cruiser, ex-armoured cruiser, as of 8.14 – with 2nd CS, to Grand Fleet; 1.15 - refitted at Cromarty; 31.12.15 - destroyed by an internal explosion at Cromarty (Cn)

NAUTILUS, submarine, 6.17 – renamed N.1; 10.17 – completed, nominally served with 6th Flotilla, Portsmouth, but not operational. Employed as depot ship supplying power to other submarines (Cn)

NEMESIS, destroyer, 6.17 – transferred to Japanese Navy until 1919 (Cn)

NEPTUNE, dreadnought battleship, 1.11 – completed; as of 8.14 – serving with 1st Battle Squadron, to Grand Fleet; 4.16 - collided with a merchant ship but not seriously damaged; 31.5.16 – Battle of Jutland; 1917 - to 4th BS; 1919 - paid off into Reserve (Cn)

NEW ZEALAND, battlecruiser, 11.12 – completed, presented to the Royal Navy; 8.14 - joined Grand Fleet; 1-2.15 – flagship, 2nd BCS; 24.1.15 - Battle of the Dogger Bank, fired 147-12in shells, temporary flagship when Lion put out of action; 22.4.16 - in collision with Australia; 31.5.16 - Battle of Jutland, fired 420-12in shells; 6.16 - joined 1st BCS; 9.16 - replaced by Renown; to 2nd BCS for remainder of war; 1919 – sailed with Admiral Jellicoe on his tour of the Dominions; listed for disposal under the Washington Treaty; 12.22 – sold (Cn)

NEWCASTLE, light cruiser, 9.10 – completed; as of 8.14 - at Esquimalt; searched off South America for German raider Prinz Eitel Friedrich; 1.15-11.16 – Pacific; 1.16 - captured German prize Mazatlan; 1917 - at Mudros; 3.17 - East Indies; 5.17 – Adriatic; 1918-19 – flagship, SE Coast of South America Station; 2.20 - paid off at Nore; 12.20 - on sale list; 1921 – sold (Cn)

NIGER, minesweeper, ex-torpedo gunboat, 1909 – converted to minesweeper; 11.11.14 – torpedoed and sunk by U.12 off Deal (Cn)

NIGHTINGALE, river gunboat, as of 8.14 – China Station, serving on Yangtze/West Rivers; 12.14 - paid off, crews to other ships; 11.19 - sold locally (Cn)

NIOBE (RCN), cruiser, ex-1st-class cruiser, 10.14 - to New York; 2-8.15 - to Bermuda; 10.15 - paid off at Halifax, disarmed as a depot ship; 6.12.17 – present during Halifax ammunition explosion, badly damaged and lost funnels, ventilators and masts; continued in service; 1922 – sold (Cn)

NOTTINGHAM, light cruiser, 4.14 – completed; as of 8.14 - 1st LCS; 1.15 – Battle of Dogger Bank; 2.15 - joined 2nd LCS; 20.6.15 - attacked unsuccessfully by U-boat; 31.5.16 – Battle of Jutland; 19.8.16 – on sweep with Grand Fleet, torpedoed and sunk by U.52 (Cn)

NUBIAN, destroyer, 27.10.16 – in night action, bow blown off by German destroyer, run ashore on South Foreland, partly salvaged. Later rebuilt as stern section of new ZUBIAN (Cn)


O

OCEAN, battleship, 14.8.14 - joined 8BS and went to Queenstown; 9.14 - to East Indies; 10.14 - took part in Persian Gulf operations, then to Mediterranean; 2-3.15 - took part in Dardanelles bombardments; 18.3.15 - damaged by gunfire, then mined and sunk. (Cn)

ODIN, sloop, as of 8.14 - East Indies Station; 8.14 - Persian Gulf; 1915-17 - Mesopotamian Campaign; 1917-18 - Red Sea patrol; 3.17 – captured German merchantman Iltis off Aden; 1919-20 – served with Clio on blockade of Somaliland coast, landed a naval brigade to demolish one of the "Mad Mullah's" forts; 1920 - sold at Bombay with Clio (Cn)

ONYX, submarine tender, ex-torpedo gunboat, 1907 - converted to submarine tender; 6.19 - renamed Vulcan II; 1924 - sold (Cn)

ORION, dreadnought battleship, 1.12 – completed; 8.14 - joined Grand Fleet with 2nd BS; 31.5.16 – Battle of Jutland; post-war - served with Atlantic Fleet, but listed for disposal under Washington Treaty; 1922 - sold for BU (Cn)

ORLIONOCH, seaplane carrier, ex-Russian steamer, late 1918 – converted to seaplane carrier with two aircraft for service in Caspian Sea; 10.18 – commissioned; 1918-19 – in support of White Russians; 24.8.19 – transferred to White Russians (Cn)

OTTER, destroyer, 8.14 – commissioned at Hong Kong for few months, paid off to provide seaman for other ships (Cn)

OUSE, destroyer, 28.8.18 – depth charged and sank UC.70 off Whitby; 29 9.18 – with destroyer Star, depth-charged and sank UB.115 off Sunderland (Cn)


P

P.11-P.64, patrol boats - all served with the Dover Patrol, Nore Local Defence Flotilla or Portsmouth Escort Force (Cn)

PACTOLUS, submarine depot ship, ex-3rd-class cruiser, as of 8.14 - submarine depot ship; 1914-18 - with 9th SM Flotilla at Ardrossan; 5.21 - sold for BU (Cn)

PATHFINDER, light cruiser, ex-scout cruiser, as of 8.14 - with 8th DF; 8.14 – stationed in Firth of Forth; 5.9.14 – torpedoed and sunk off St Abbs Head by U.21 (Cn)

PATROL, light cruiser, ex-scout cruiser, 8.14 – serving with 9th DF in Forth and Tyne area; 12.14 - present during German raid on Scarborough; 1915 - to 7th DF, Humber; 1918 - to Irish Sea; end of 1918 - rejoined 9th DF at the Nore; 4.19 - paid off at the Nore (Cn)

PC.42-PC.74, patrol boats (20 in total), early 1918 - after completion, all based at Pembroke (Cn)

PEGASUS, light cruiser, ex-3rd-class cruiser, as of 8.14 - Cape of Good Hope Station, sent to East Africa; 20.9.14 - sunk at Zanzibar by German light cruiser Koenigsberg (Cn)

PEGASUS, seaplane carrier, ex-short-sea passenger ship Stockholm building; 27.2.17 – bought on the stocks; 9.6.17 – launched; 28.8.17 - renamed after commissioning, joined Grand Fleet; early 1919 - to Archangel for North Russia operations; 2.12.19 - recommissioned at Rosyth; 3.20 – left for Mediterranean; 9.3.20 - ran aground off Kerch, refloated with help of two tugs and an icebreaker; to 1923 - remained with Mediterranean Fleet. Aircraft carried included Beardmore WB IIIs (Nos N6104, N6106, N6107) (1917); Fairey Campania; Sopwith Camel 2F 1s (4 carried in 10.18); Fairey IIIC (White Sea 1919 and 'L' Flt, 267 Sqn - N9253, N9257); RAF in Dardanelles, 1922 - N9230, N9259 taken to Russia, N9253, N9257 to Mediterranean; Fairey IIIFDs (6 in 1922); Short 184s (N 9290, N9291, N9292, N9293) (Russia 1919) (Cn)

PELORUS, light cruiser, ex-3rd-class cruiser, as of 8.14 - Bristol Channel patrol; sent to Mediterranean; 1916 - converted to depot ship; 5.20 - sold for BU (Cn)

PENELOPE, light cruiser, 12.14 - completed, joined Harwich Force; 3.15 - took part in Hoyer Raid; fitted to launch seaplanes but platform removed in 8.15; 8.15 - joined 5th LCS; 9.15 - captured or sank four German trawlers; 25.4.16 - hit by torpedo from UB.29 off Norfolk coast, rudder and steering gear wrecked; 11.17 - fitted for minelaying, laid 210 mines in three trips, including Kattegat in 2.18; 3.18 - joined 7th LCS, Grand Fleet; 11.18 - took part in surrender of High Sea Fleet; 6.19 - paid off into reserve at Nore (Cn)

PHAETON, light cruiser, 2.15 - completed, to 4th LCS, Grand Fleet; 3.15 - to Dardanelles; 9.15 – returned to join 1st LCS, Grand Fleet; 4.5.16 - shot down Zeppelin L.7 with sister-ship Galatea; 31.5.16 – took part in Jutland; 8.17 - fitted for minelaying, laid 358 mines in five trips, including Kattegat in 3.18; 3.18 – to 7th LCS, Grand Fleet; 9.19 – to 2nd LCS, Harwich Force; 2.20 - paid off for 12-month refit, then into Reserve at Devonport (Cn)

PHILOMEL, light cruiser, ex-3rd-class cruiser, as of 8.14 – New Zealand sea-going training ship; 8.14-4.17 – convoy escort; 4.17 - paid off, disarmed, reduced to depot ship; 1921 - last sea voyage, to Auckland to become training hulk (Cn)

PIKE, boom defence vessel, ex-iron gunboat; as of 8.14 - boom defence vessel at Southampton; 3.20 - sold for BU (Cn)

PIONEER (RAN), light cruiser, ex-3rd-class cruiser, 12.12 - transferred to RAN, remained in Australian waters; early 1915 - to East Africa; 1916 - returned to Sydney, paid off and laid up; 1924 - sold as a hulk (Cn)

PLUCKY, harbour service, ex-miscellaneous duties, ex-iron gunboat, as of 1914 - miscellaneous duties; c1916 - reduced to harbour service, renamed Banterer; 1928 - sold for BU (Cn)

POMONE, training ship, ex-3rd-class cruiser, as of 8.14 - harbour service/training ship at Dartmouth; 10.22 - sold for BU (Cn)

POWERFUL, harbour service, ex-1st-class cruiser, as of 8.14 - in reserve, laid up as harbour training ship at Devonport; 11.19 - renamed Impregnable (Cn)

PRINCE EUGENE, (M.11), monitor, 8.15  - commissioned; 9.15 – completed with twin 12in turret from battleship Hannibal, joined Monitor Squadron at Dover; 13.12.17-7.4.18 - modified at Portsmouth to mount 18in gun, but returned to Dover without the gun; 17.10.18 - to Portsmouth to receive the gun; 20.10.18 - work stopped as armistice negotiations under way; 12.18 - paid off, laid up in C&M at Immingham until sold (Cn)

PRINCE GEORGE, battleship, 8.8.14 - commissioned as flagship 7BS, stationed in Channel; 1915 - to Dardanelles to act as 'mine-bumper', during 1915 bombardments suffered severe damage from Turkish gunfire, repaired at Malta; 1915/16 - during Cape Helles evacuation, hit by torpedo which failed to explode; early 1916 - paid off at Chatham and disarmed; used as auxiliary sickbay, destroyer depot ship and other subsidiary duties; 7.18 - renamed Victorious II; 2.19 - reverted to original name; 1921 – sold; 30.12.21 - on passage to Germany for BU and foundered off Kamperduin (Camperdown). (Cn)

PRINCE OF WALES, battleship, 8.14 - remained with 5BS, serving on Channel patrols; 5.15 - to Dardanelles; 25.4.15 – took part in Anzac landings; 5.15 - ordered to Adriatic with three sisters (London, Venerable, Queen); early 1918 – returned home, reduced to harbour service. (Cn)

PRINCE RUPERT (M.10), monitor, 6.15 – commissioned; 7.15 – completed with twin 12in turret from battleship Victorious, joined Monitor Squadron, Dover Patrol (not to Dardanelles as originally intended); 8.15 - joined off Sheerness with Lord Clive; 10.17 - docked at Portsmouth; then to Tees as guardship; 4.18-9.19 - refitted at Jarrow, remained on the Tees as temporary tender to submarine depot ship Vulcan; 9.19 - joined other monitors laid up at Immingham; 5.20 - to Chatham as accommodation ship for dockyard police and boats' crews; 2.22 - replaced old Achilles as parent ship for the naval depot, renamed Pembroke (Cn)

PRINCESS ROYAL, battlecruiser, 11.12 – completed; as of 8.14 - 1st BCS; 8.14 - joined Grand Fleet; 28.8.14 - Battle of Heligoland Bight; to West Indies during hunt for Adm von Spee's squadron; early 1915 - returned to 1st BCS as flagship; 24.1.15 – Battle of Dogger Bank; 31.5.16 – Battle of Jutland, hit by 9-12in/11in shells; 21.7.16 - returned to Rosyth after repairs; remained with 1st BCS until 1922; 12.22 - sold for BU in comply with Washington Treaty; resold and not BU until 1926 (Cn)

PROSERPINE, light cruiser, ex-3rd-class cruiser, 8.14 - with 7th CS, Channel Fleet; early 1915 - to Egypt; 1915-18 - in Mesopotamia; 11.19 - sold for BU in Genoa (Cn)

PSYCHE, light cruiser, ex-3rd-class cruiser, 8.14 - in New Zealand; 7.15 - transferred to RAN, sent to China; 6.22 - sold for BU in Melbourne (Cn)

PYRAMUS, light cruiser, ex-3rd-class cruiser, 8.14 - in New Zealand; early 1915 - to Persian Gulf, then East Indies; 1.20 - sold for BU (Cn)


Q

QUEEN ELIZABETH, dreadnought battleship, 12.14 - commissioned at Portsmouth; 1.15 – completed; 2.15 - to Mediterranean for service in Dardanelles; 25.2-14.5.15 – bombarded Narrows forts and supported landings, fired total of 86-15in and 71-6in shells, but 15in shells in short supply; 14.5.15 - struck Admiral De Robecks flag, sailed for Gibraltar; 26.5.15 - arrived Scapa Flow, joined 5th BS; 22.5-4.6.16 - refitted at Rosyth, missed Jutland; 6.16 - temporary flagship, 5th BS; 7.16-2.17 – refitted, recommissioned as Fleet flagship; 9-10.9.17 - temporarily flew flag of Admiral Mayo USN; 15.11.18 - surrender of German High Seas Fleet signed on board; 7.19 – became flagship, Atlantic Fleet; 7.24 – became flagship, Mediterranean Fleet; 1926-27 - partially modernised (Cn)

QUEEN MARY, battlecruiser, 8.13 – completed; as of 8.14 – 1st BCS; 8.14 - joined Grand Fleet; 28.8.14 – Battle of Heligoland Bight; 24.1.15 – refitting at time of Battle of Dogger Bank; shortly rejoined 1st BCS; 31.5.16 – blown up at Battle of Jutland (Cn)

QUEEN, battleship, 8.14 - remained with 5BS, serving on Channel patrols; 3.15 - to Dardanelles; 25.4.15 – covered Anzac landing; 1915 - ordered to Adriatic, remained at Taranto as a base ship; 1918 – disarmed, 12in guns transferred to Italian Navy, returned home. (Cn)


R

R-class, destroyers, 1.17 – 2 of class with 11th DF, 1 with 14th DF, 13 with 15th DF, all Grand Fleet; early 1918 - 8 with 11th DF, 1 with 14th DF, 10 with 15th DF (including Modified 'R's), all Grand Fleet, 8 with Lerwick Force, Shetlands, 8 with 13th DF, Battlecruiser Force, 21 with 10DF, Harwich Force; 11.18 – 5 with 11th DF, 5 R and S-class with 14th DF, 18 with 15th DF, all Grand Fleet, 24 with 10th DF, Harwich Force (Cn)

R-class, Modified, destroyers, served with Grand Fleet and Harwich Force; 11.18 – 7 of class with 13th DF (Cn)

R.8, hunter-killer submarine, 10.18 – made attack on U-boat, torpedo faulty (Cn)

RAGLAN (ex-M.3, ex-Robert E Lee, ex-M.3), monitor, 2.15 – to be named Robert E Lee; 6.15 – completed; 3.6.15 - commissioned as M.3; 19.6.15 – approval to be renamed Lord Raglan; 23.6.15 – renamed Raglan; to Dardanelles for bombardment duty, sailing with cruiser Diana; 9.15-1.16 - 1st Division, Special Squadron; 1.16 – to Aegean after evacuation of Cape Helles; 9.17 - to Port Said for operations against Turks in Southern Palestine; 1.17 (sic – 1.18) - to Imbros to guard against a breakout by German Goeben and Breslau, duty shared with Abercrombie and smaller monitors of the 2nd Detached Squadron, Aegean Squadron; 20.1.18 – early in the morning engaged by Breslau and then Goeben, set on fire, abandoned and sank, guns and other equipment salvaged (Cn)

RAINBOW (RCN), light cruiser, ex-2nd-class cruiser, as of 8.14 – stationed at Esquimalt, BC, 1914-18 - remained there as depot ship (Cn)

RALEIGH, light cruiser, 7.21 – completed, commissioned (4.21, sic) as flagship, 8th LCS, North America and West Indies Station; 1922 - became a private ship; 8.8.22 –ran aground in thick fog on Point Armour, Belleisle Strait, Labrador, could not be refloated and abandoned; 1927 - blown up in by a party from HMS Calcutta (Cn)

RAMILLIES, dreadnought battleship, 12.9.16 – damaged rudder at launch, towed with difficulty to Cammell Laird for repair; 5.17 – commissioned; 9.17 – completed, joined 1st BS, Grand Fleet; 1920 - to Mediterranean; 6.20 - stationed with Revenge at Ismid during Greek-Turkish war; 1924 – joined 2nd BS, Atlantic Fleet. (Cn)

RATTLER, harbour service, ex-composite gunboat, as of 8.14 - harbour service; 1919 – renamed Dryad; 1924 - sold for BU (Cn)

RAVEN II, seaplane carrier, ex-German merchant ship Rabenfels, 8.14 - one of two German merchantmen (the other was Aenne Rickmers, later Anne) seized at Port Said; 12.6.15 commissioned in RN; 8.15 – renamed Raven II; 1915 - operated in Eastern Mediterranean, carried two French seaplanes and served with French Fleet for a while. Aircraft carried included Short 184, Sopwith Schneider, Sopwith Baby, Short 827/830; 1.9.16 - damaged by German bombing attack on Port Said; 1916-17 - served in Red Sea and Indian Ocean; 1.18 - renamed Ravenrock; in service as fleet collier, stores carrier and troopship until 1.21; 1922 – sold, returned to mercantile service (Cn)

RELIANCE – see ANNE

RENOWN, battlecruiser, 9.16 – completed, joined 1st BCS, Grand Fleet until 1919; 1920-21 - Royal Tour; 1921-22 – tour to India; 1923-26 – major refit (Cn)

REPULSE, battlecruiser, 8.16 – completed, joined 1st BCS, Grand Fleet; 17.11.17 - action against German light forces in Heligoland Bight, fired 54 shells, scored one hit; 12.18-1.21 - refit at Portsmouth DYd; 1922 - joined BCS, Atlantic Fleet; made a number of Royal Tours and a world cruise (Cn)

RESOLUTION, dreadnought battleship, 8.16 – commissioned; 12.16 – completed, joined 1st BS, Grand Fleet; 4.19 - joined 2nd BS, Atlantic Fleet; 1920 – flagship, 1st BS in Mediterranean (Cn).

REVENGE, old battleship, 4.13 - reduced to Material Reserve, towed to Motherbank (in the Solent); 10.14 - brought back into service to bombard German positions on the Belgian coast; 2.8.15 - renamed Redoubtable to free name for new ship, fitted with 'bulges' to protect her against torpedo attack, early form of minesweeping gear fitted to bows; 10.15 - paid off when sufficient monitors available; 1918-19 - recommissioned as tender to Victory. (Cn)

REVENGE, dreadnought battleship, 2.16 – commissioned; 3.16 – completed, joined 1st BS, Grand Fleet; 31.5.16 – Battle of Jutland, temporary flagship, Admiral Burney after torpedoing of Marlborough; 11.16 - became flagship, Admiral Madden, second-in-command of Grand Fleet; 1920 - to Mediterranean; 6.20 -stationed at Ismid with Ramillies during hostilities between Greece and Turkey; 7.20 - guarded British interests with 1st BS during seizure of Mudania; returned to join Atlantic Fleet (Cn)

REVENGE, dreadnought battleship – see CAMPANIA

RINALDO, sloop, 1914-15 - guardship in The Wash; to West and East Africa; 10.21 - sold for BU (Cn)

RINGDOVE, ex-composite gunboat, 1917 - converted to salvage vessel, renamed Melita; 1.20 - sold for commercial service (Cn)

RIVIERA seaplane carrier, 11.8.14 – second of three fast Cross-Channel steamers (plus Empress, Engadine) requisitioned by Admiralty, converted at Chatham DYd; 13.8.14 – commissioned (after two days?); 25.12.14 - Cuxhaven Raid; 1915 – Dover Patrol; 1917-18 – Dover Patrol; later refitted; 6.18 - recommissioned for Mediterranean; 21 5.19 - paid off. Aircraft carried at various times - Sopwith Baby, Short 74 (on Cuxhaven Raid), Short 135 (No 136), Short 74s (Nos 811 and 818), Short 184s (Nos N2929, N2930, N2943, N2949) (Cn)

ROBERTS, monitor, (ex-Stonewall Jackson, ex-M.3), monitor, 2.15 – to be named Stonewall Jackson; 5.15 – commissioned as Stonewall Jackson, to be renamed Earl Roberts; 6.15 – completed; 22.6.15 – renamed Raglan; to Dardanelles in company with cruiser Endymion; 9.15-1.16 - 1st Division, Special Squadron; 2.16 - returned home; 5.16 - to Yarmouth as guardship, little action apart from air raids; 6.17 - docked in the Tyne; moved to Thames Estuary for projected Belgian landings as a reserve monitor; 10.17 - returned to Yarmouth; 7.18 - refitted at Portsmouth;  5.19 - paid off into C&M at Immingham; 10.20 - towed to Portsmouth, but not disarmed; 5.21 – sold, but retained by Admiralty for trials; 1925 - considered for conversion to airship mooring mast and fuelling point (Cn)

ROBIN, river gunboat, as of 8.14 – China Station, serving on Yangtze/West Rivers; 12.14 - paid off, crews to other ships; post-war – recommissioned for service; 1928 - sold (Cn)

ROSARIO, submarine tender, ex-sloop, as of 8.14 - submarine tender, Hong Kong; 11.11.21 - sold locally (Cn)

ROXBURGH, cruiser, ex-armoured cruiser, as of 8.14 – with 3rd CS; 8.14 - joined Grand Fleet; 6.8.14 - captured German merchantman; 1.15 – refitted; 20.6.15 – torpedoed by U.39, bow seriously damaged; 4.16 - repairs completed, served in Norwegian waters; 9.16 - to North America & West Indies Station until Armistice; 12.2.18 - escorting convoy off Northern Ireland, rammed and sank U.89; 6.19 - into reserve at Portsmouth, recommissioned as W/T trials ship; 2.20 - paid off (Cn)

ROYAL ARTHUR, cruiser, ex-1st-class cruiser, 8.14 – with Queenstown Training Squadron, joined 10th CS, Northern Patrol; 2.15 - reduced to guardship at Scapa Flow; became submarine depot ship; 1918 - with 12th Submarine Flotilla; 1919 – with 1st Submarine Flotilla; 12.20 - paid off (Cn)

ROYAL OAK, dreadnought battleship, 5.16 – completed, commissioned for 4th BS, Grand Fleet; 31.5.16 – Battle of Jutland; afterwards to 1st BS; 1919 - joined 2nd BS, Atlantic Fleet; 1922 – refitted (Cn)

ROYAL SOVEREIGN, dreadnought battleship, 5.16 – completed, commissioned for 1st BS, Grand Fleet; 31.5.16 – missed Jutland; 1919 - transferred with 1st BS to Atlantic Fleet (Cn)

ROYALIST, light cruiser, 3.15 - completed, joined 4th LCS, Grand Fleet; 2.17 - fitted for minelaying, transferred to 1st LCS, laid 1183 mines in 16 trips; 1.19 - to Baltic; 4.19 – returned to join 2nd LCS, Harwich Force; 1.20 - paid off into Reserve at Portsmouth (Cn)

RUSSELL, battleship, 8.14 - joined Grand Fleet in as flagship, 6BS, later took part in Northern Patrol with 3rd BS; 11.14 - joined Channel Fleet at Portland, bombarded Belgian coast, ordered to Dardanelles; 11.15 - kept at Mudros with Hibernia in support; 7.1.16 - took part in the evacuation; 27.4.16 – mined and sunk off Malta. (Cn)


S

SABRINA, harbour service, ex-iron gunboat, as of 8.14 – harbour service; 1916 – renamed Sabine to release name; late 1919 - became hulk Vivid; 7.22 - sold for BU (Cn)

SANDFLY, destroyer, 1917 - converted to minelayer, served with 20th Flotilla (Cn)

SANDPIPER, river gunboat, as of 8.14 – China Station, serving on Yangtze/West Rivers; 12.14 - paid off, crews to other ships; 10.20 - sold locally (Cn)

SAPPHIRE, light cruiser, ex-3rd-class cruiser, 1914-15 - attached to 4th BS; 1915-16 – Mediterranean; 1916-18 - East Indies; 5.21 - sold for BU (Cn).

SAPPHO, light cruiser, ex-2nd-class cruiser, as of 8.14 - tender to flagship, 1st Fleet; 1915-1921 - laid up; 3.21 – sold for BU (Cn)

SCARAB, river gunboat, 11.15 - to Port Said until 4.16; 3.18 – sent out to Hong Kong (Cn)

SEAGULL, minesweeper, ex-torpedo gunboat, 1909 – converted to minesweeper; 30.9.18 - sunk in collision with SS Corrib in Clyde (Cn)

SENATOR, destroyer, 6.18 - fitted with platform aft to allow an aircraft to take off when she went full speed astern (Cn)

SENTINEL, light cruiser, ex-scout cruiser, as of 8.14 – serving with 6th DF at Dover; after 8.14 - joined 8th DF in the Forth; joined 6th LCS temporarily in the Humber; to Mediterranean; 1918 – with Aegean Squadron; 12.11.18 - entered Dardanelles; served in Black Sea; 4.19 – paid off after returning to Sheerness; 7.20-1922 - Mechanics' training ships at Chatham; 1.23 – sold for BU (Cn)

SEVERN, ex-Solimoes monitor; 1.14 - completed, Brazilian Navy unable to afford them, laid up at Barrow; 3.8.14 – bought by Admiralty and taken over; 29.8.14 – arrived Dover after commissioning; 10-11.14 - took part in Belgian coast operations; 11-12.14 - refitted at Chatham; 3.15 - ordered to Dardanelles, at Malta diverted with sister-ship Mersey to German East Africa for destruction of German light cruiser Konigsberg; 3.6.15 – arrived Mafia Island; 6-11.7.15 – took part in successful attack on Konigsberg, remained off East Africa until 4.18; 4.17 – refitted at Durban; 4.18 - to Egypt; 10.18 - to Mudros, served on Danube for three months; 3.19 - ordered home for service with White Sea Squadron on Dvina River, but stayed at Devonport in Care & Maintenance; 7.19 - to Queenstown (Cobh) (Cn)

SEYMOUR, flotilla leader, after completion converted to minelayer (Cn)

SHANNON, cruiser, ex-armoured cruiser, as of 8.14 – 2nd CS; 8.14 - joined Grand Fleet; 11.14 - refitted at Cromarty; 31.5.16 – Battle of Jutland; 11.16 - to Murmansk; 1917-18 - Atlantic convoy escort; 1920 - paid off into reserve; then accommodation ship attached to Actaeon; 1922 - paid off (Cn)

SHEARWATER, sloop, as of 8.14 – serving at Esquimalt, Vancouver; 1915 - tender to Canadian submarines CC.1 and CC.2; 1917 - to Halifax, Nova Scotia; 5.22 – sold, renamed Vedas (Cn)

SIR JOHN MOORE, (M.5), monitor, 7.15 – completed with twin 12in turret from battleship Hannibal, joined Monitor Squadron, Dover Patrol; 16.1.19 – last of her class to leave Dover Patrol, went to Nore; 1.19 - recommissioned as gunnery tender with General Craufurd in 1st Fleet (Cn)

SIR THOMAS PICTON, (M.12), monitor, 10.15 – completed with twin 12in turret from battleship Mars; to Dardanelles; 11.15 - arrived Mudros; 2.16 - to Port Said; then Aegean; 2.17 - guns changed at Malta; 3.17 - to Venice to support Italian Army; 3-6.18 - refitted at Genoa; after Armistice - to Fiume as guardship; 2.19 - to Malta; 5.19 - paid off, laid up in C&M at Immingham, then towed to Portsmouth for removal of guns and fittings before laying up in Spithead.

SIRIUS, light cruiser, ex-2nd-class cruiser, 8.14 - at Nore; 1915 - to West Africa; early 1918 - returned home, converted to blockship at Chatham, scuttled at Ostend (Cn)

SKIPJACK, minesweeper, ex-torpedo gunboat, 1909 – converted to minesweeper; 1920 – sold for BU (Cn)

SKIRMISHER, light cruiser, ex-scout cruiser, as of 8.14 – leader, 7th DF; 12.14 - stationed at Immingham; 9.15 - joined 6th LCS temporarily in the Humber; 1916 - to Mediterranean; 11.18 - with Aegean Squadron; 6.19 - return home, stationed at Immingham (Humber); 3.20 – sold for BU (Cn)

SLANEY, ex-iron gunboat, as of 8.14 – presumably harbour service; 8.19 - sold for BU (Cn)

SNAKE, cable lighter, ex-iron gunboat; as of 8.14 – harbour service/cable lighter VC.15 (not known if in naval service) (Cn)

SNAPPER – see MASTIFF

SNIPE, river gunboat, as of 8.14 – China Station, serving on Yangtze/West Rivers; 12.14 - paid off, crews to other ships; 11.19 - sold locally (Cn)

SOUTHAMPTON, light cruiser, 11.12 – completed; as of 8.14 – flagship, Commodore 1st LCS, Home Fleet to 1915; 28.8.14 – Battle of Heligoland Bight; 1.15 – Battle of Dogger Bank; 2.15-1917 – flagship, 2nd LCS; 31.5.16 – Battle of Jutland, sank German torpedo boat S.35 and cruiser Frauenlob, severely damaged in night action; 1917-19 – 8th LCS; 5.19-1920 - flagship 7th LCS, South America; 1920-21 - refitted at Cape; 9.21-1924 – 4th LCS, East Indies; 8.24 - joined reserve at Nore (Cn)

SPANKER, minesweeper, ex-torpedo gunboat, 1909 – converted to minesweeper; 1920 – sold for BU (Cn)

SPARROW (renamed AMOKURA in 1906), training ship, ex-composite gunboat, as of 8.14 – training ship with New Zealand Government named Amokura; 1922 - sold as coal hulk; 1955 – BU (Cn)

SPARTAN, harbour service, ex-2nd-class cruiser, as of 8.14 - harbour service/accommodation hulk at Devonport; 8.21 - renamed Defiance II; 7.31 – sold for BU (Cn)

SPARTIATE, Stokers' training ship, ex-1st-class cruiser; as of 8.14 - Stokers' training ship (at Portsmouth?); 6.15 - renamed Fisgard; 1.32 - put up for sale (Cn)

SPEEDWELL, minesweeper, ex-torpedo gunboat, 1909 – converted to minesweeper; 1920 – sold for BU (Cn)

SPEEDY, minesweeper, ex-torpedo gunboat, 1909 – converted to minesweeper; 3.9.14 - mined off the Humber (Cn)

SPEY, ex-iron gunboat, as of 8.14 – presumably harbour service; c1915 – deleted; 1923 - sold for BU (Cn)

SPRIGHTLY, destroyer, from 8.14 - served with Scapa Local Defence Flotilla (Cn)

ST GEORGE, destroyer depot ship, ex-1st-class cruiser, as of 8.14 – serving with 9th DF; 11.14 – with Humber Patrol; 1917 – converted to "submarine support vessel"; 1918-19 - to Aegean with 2nd Submarine Flotilla; early 1920 - paid off (Cn)

ST VINCENT, dreadnought battleship, 5.09 – completed; as of 8.14 – 1st BS, Home Fleet; 8.14 - joined Grand Fleet; 31.5.16 – Battle of Jutland; joined 4th BS; 1919 – to Portsmouth Reserve; served as gunnery training ship; late 1919 - paid off; BU to comply with Washington Treaty (Cn)

STAR, destroyer, 29 9.18 – with destroyer OUSE, depth-charged and sank UB.115 off Sunderland (Cn)

STOUR, destroyer, from 8.14 – served with Patrol Flotillas (Cn)

SUFFOLK, cruiser, ex-armoured cruiser, as of 8.14 – flagship (Admiral Cradock) 4th CS, Flag then transferred to Good Hope; 8.14 - chased German light cruiser Karlsruhe; 8.8.14 - captured German merchantman; 1915-16 - served on North America & West Indies Station; 8.17-11.18 – flagship, China Station; 1918-19 - to Vladivostok to cover Allied operations against the Russian Bolsheviks; 1919 - Cadets' training ship; 4.20 - placed on sale list (Cn)

SUPERB, dreadnought battleship, 5.09 – completed; as of 8.14 – in service with 1st BS, Home Fleet; 8.14 - joined Grand Fleet with rest of 1st BS; 1915 – became flagship, 4th BS; 31.5.16 – Battle of Jutland; 11.18 - led Allied Fleet through Dardanelles; 1919 - returned home, paid off into reserve; became turret drillship; 1920 - stricken and used as target (Cn)

SUTLEJ, cruiser, ex-armoured cruiser, 8.14 – in reserve, joined 9th CS; 2.15 - to 11th CS in Ireland; 2.16 - to Santa Cruz; 9.16 - joined 9th CS; 1917 - laid up as accommodation ship at Rosyth; 1.18 - depot ship at Rosyth, renamed Crescent II; 1919 – renamed Sutlej before being put on sale list (Cn)

SWIFT flotilla leader, 8.14 – part of Grand Fleet with K-class destroyers, too frail for Northern waters; 7.15 – brief refit and transferred to Dover Patrol (6DF); 1916 - rearmed with 6in gun on forecastle in place of 4in guns; 20.4.17 - in action with destroyer Broke against German destroyers in English Channel, badly damaged, 6in gun removed, repaired; 7.17 – rejoined Dover Patrol until Armistice (Cn)

SWIFTSURE, battleship, 9.12-3.13 – refitted, then to East Indies as flagship; 8.14 - Red Sea patrols and escorted Indian troopships to Aden; 11.14 – flagship, forces defending Suez Canal, fired on Turkish troops at Kantara; 3.15 - to Dardanelles, carried out several successful bombardments; 9.15 - unsuccessfully attacked by U-boat; 1915/16 - returned home after Gallipoli evacuation; in reserve at Chatham; 1917 – disarmed and converted to blockship for projected Belgian coast attack, conversion cancelled, later used as overflow ship; 1919 - used as a target. (Cn)

SWORDFISH submarine, 1.4.16 – numbered S.1; 28.4.16 – commissioned as tender to Dolphin; 7.16 – following acceptance, nominally served with 4th Flotilla, but trials continued for five months; 1.17 - laid up at Portsmouth; 27.6.17 – taken in hand for conversion to surface patrol boat; 7/17 – renamed Swordfish; 10.8.17 – commissioned; 10.17 – acceptance, tender to Victory; 1.18 – became operational (Cn)

SYDNEY (RAN), light cruiser, 6.13 – completed; as of 8.14 - serving in Pacific; 9.14 - took part in New Guinea expedition; 11.14 - escorting ANZAC troop convoy, diverted on news that German Emden was attacking Cocos-Keeling Island; 9.11.14 - in action with and destroyed Emden, slightly damaged herself; 12.14-1916 - North America and West Indies Station; 1916-armistice – 2nd LCS, Grand Fleet; 3.19 – sailed for Australia with J-class submarines; 1923 - refitted at Cockatoo Island DYd; 9.24-1927 - flagship RAN; 5.28 - paid off (Cn)

SYREN, destroyer, from 8.14 – served with Dover Patrol (6DF) (Cn)


T

TAKU, destroyer, from 8.14 - China Station, no record of being commissioned; 10.16 - sold at Hong Kong to break up (Cn)

TALBOT, light cruiser, ex-2nd-class cruiser, as of 8.14 – 3rd Fleet, Devonport; 8.14 - joined Cruiser Force G; 9.14 - captured German merchantman off the Lizard; 2.15 - joined 12th Cruiser Squadron; 4.15 - to Dardanelles; 5.16-1917 - East Africa; 1918 - Cape of Good Hope; 1919 – Mediterranean; 11.19 - returned to Devonport; 1920 - put up for sale at Queenstown (Cn)

TARANTULA, river gunboat, early 1916 - towed out to Persian Gulf; 1918 – sent out to Hong Kong (Cn)

TARPON, destroyer, 1917-18 - served as minelayer (Cn)

TAY, ex-iron gunboat, as of 8.14 – presumably harbour service; 10.20 - sold for BU (Cn)

TB.042, TB.044, TB.046, TB.063, TB.070, 8.14 - local defence flotilla, Malta; early 1915 – took part in defence of Suez Canal (Cn)

TB.046, 27.12.15 - ran out of coal on passage Port Said to Mudros, wrecked on Lemnos; refloated and repaired; 1920 - sold for BU (Cn)

TB.064, 21.3.15 - wrecked in Aegean (Cn)

TB.1-TB.36, torpedo boats, served with North Sea Patrol Flotillas or Nore Local Defence Flotilla (Cn)

TB.90-TB.97, TB.83, TB.88, TB.89, as of 8.14 - local defence flotilla, Gibraltar (Cn)

TB.90, 25.4.18 - capsized in heavy weather off Gibraltar (Cn)

TB.96, 1.11.15 - sunk in collision with troopship Tringa off Gibraltar (Cn)

TB.98-TB.117, as of 8.14 - local defence, principally at Portsmouth (Cn)

TB.117, 10.6.17 - sunk in collision with SS Kamouraska in the Channel (Cn)

TEAL, river gunboat, as of 8.14 – China Station; 12.14 - paid off at Hong Kong, crews to other ships; post-war – recommissioned for service; 10.31 - sold for BU at Shanghai (Cn)

TELEMACHUS, destroyer, 1917-18 - served as minelayer (Cn)

TEMERAIRE, dreadnought battleship, 5.09 – completed; as of 8.14 – in service with 1st BS, Home Fleet; 8.14 - joined 4th BS; 31.5.16 – Battle of Jutland; 1918 - to Mediterranean; 1919 - returned home; became sea-going Cadets' training ship; late 1921 - put up for sale (Cn)

TERRIBLE, disarmed in reserve, ex-1st-class cruiser, as of 8.14 - in reserve; 1915-16 – disarmed, troop carrier to the Dardanelles; became accommodation ship at Portsmouth (Cn)

TERROR, monitor, 8.16 – completed, joined Dover Patrol; took part in Belgian coast bombardments; night of 18/19.10.17 - at anchor off Dunkirk, hit by three torpedoes from German torpedo-boats A.59, A.60 and A.61, considerably damaged and beached; towed back to Dover; night of 27.10.17 – being towed to Portsmouth, but abandoned off Hastings; 28.10.17 – reboarded and brought into Spithead; took ten weeks to repair; 1.19 - arrived Portsmouth to relieve Marshall Soult as Director and Fire Control Training Ship; 7.19-5.22 - used in firing trials against a variety of German and British warships (Cn)

TEST, destroyer, from 8.14 – served with Patrol Flotillas (Cn)

THESEUS, cruiser, ex-1st-class cruiser, 8.14 – with Queenstown Training Squadron, joined 10th CS, Northern Patrol; 2.15 – withdrawn, rearmed and bulged for service in Dardanelles; 1916 – returned from Mediterranean, to White Sea; 1918 - to Aegean as trawler depot ship; 1919 - to Black Sea; 2.20 – paid off after returning home (Cn)

THETIS, minelayer, ex-2nd-class cruiser, 1907 – one of seven of class which started conversion to minelayer; 1916-17 - depot ship; early 1918 - converted to blockship, scuttled at Zeebrugge (Cn)

THISTLE, steel gunboat, 7.26 - sold with Dwarf for BU (Cn)

THRASHER, destroyer, 8.2.17 - sank UC.39 with depth charges off East Coast (Cn)

THRUSH, Coastguard vessel, ex-composite gunboat, as of 8.14 – Coastguard vessel; 1915 - converted to cable ship; 1916 – converted to salvage vessel; 11.4.17 - wrecked off Northern Ireland (Cn)

THUNDERER, dreadnought battleship, 6.12 – completed; as of 8.14 - 2nd BS, Home Fleet; 8.14 - joined Grand Fleet; 31.5.16 – Battle of Jutland; post-war - retained in Fleet, but under Washington Treaty became Cadets' training ship 1922-26 (Cn)

TIGER, battlecruiser, 10.14 – completed; 6.11.14 - joined 1st BCS, Grand Fleet; 24.1.15 - Battle of the Dogger Bank, hit by six shells; 8.2.15 – repairs completed; 31.5.16 – Battle of Jutland, fired 303 heavy shells, scored 3 hits, in return hit 15 times; 3.6.16 – repairing at Rosyth; 1.7.16 – repairs completed, joined BCF; 1919-22 – BCS, Atlantic Fleet; 1924-29 - sea-going gunnery training ship (Cn)

TOBAGO, destroyer, 1920 - mined in Black Sea, engine room seriously damaged. Temporarily repaired at Istanbul Arsenal, towed 1000 miles to Malta DYd by battleship Centurion, but beyond economical repair (Cn)

TOPAZE, light cruiser, ex-3rd-class cruiser, 1914-15 - attached to 5th BS, Channel; 1915-17 - Mediterranean; 1917-18 - Red Sea; 9.21 - sold for BU (Cn).

TORCH (later FIREBRAND), sloop, 1914-17 - served in Pacific; 8.17 - renamed Firebrand to release name; transferred to New Zealand government for harbour training; 7.20 - sold locally for BU (Cn)

TRENT – see HUMBER, MERSEY

TRIUMPH, battleship, 4.13 - to China in to relieve the Tamar at Hong Kong; 8.14 - in reserve but recommissioned with the crews of various gunboats; took part in Tsingtao operations with Japanese warships; 1.15 - ordered to Mediterranean; from 18.2.15 - took part in attacks on Dardanelles, and one of her picket boats destroyed HM Submarine E.15 off Kephez; 25.5.15 - firing off Gaba Tepe, torpedoed and sunk by U 21. (Cn)

TURBULENT, destroyer, 2.5.16 – completed, serving with 10th DF, Harwich Force, three weeks later sunk at Jutland (Cn)


U

UNDAUNTED, light cruiser, 8.14 – completed; end of 8.14 - joined 3rd DF, Harwich Force as leader; 17.10.14 - in company with destroyers Legion, Loyal, Lennox, Lance sank German torpedo-boats S.115, S.117, S.118 and S.119 off the Texel; 25.12.14 - covered Cuxhaven Raid; 24.1.15 - fought at Battle of Dogger Bank; 2.15 – unsuccessful U-boat attack off Dungeness; 4.15 - seriously damaged in collision with destroyer Landrail; 8.15 - joined 9th DF; 10.15 - captured German trawler; 24.3.16 - covered Tondern Raid, badly damaged in collision with light cruiser Cleopatra, repaired on the Tyne; 4.17 - fitted for minelaying, no mines laid; 11.18 - joined 7th LCS, Grand Fleet until 3.19; 4.19 – into reserve at Nore (Cn)

UNDAUNTED – see ARETHUSA

UNDAUNTED – see CLEOPATRA


V

V-class, destroyers, 1.18 – one of class with 11th DF (Grand Fleet), 14 with 13th DF (Battlecruiser Force), some with 20th Minelaying DF (Cn)

VALIANT, dreadnought battleship, 1.16 - commissioned at Govan; 2.16 – completed; 3.3.16 - joined 5th BS at Scapa Flow; 31.5.16 – Battle of Jutland; 24.8.16 - damaged in collision with Warspite; 26.8-18.9.16 – repaired; from 1919 - served with Atlantic Fleet, then Mediterranean Fleet; 1929-30 - partially modernised (Cn)

VANGUARD, dreadnought battleship, 2.10 – completed; as of 8.14 – 1st BS, Home Fleet; 8.14 – to Grand Fleet; 31.5.16 – Battle of Jutland; 9.7.17 - blew up at anchor in Scapa Flow due to faulty ammunition (Cn)

VANOC, destroyer, 1.17 – ordered to complete as minelayer (Cn)

VANQUISHER, destroyer, 1.17 – ordered to complete as minelayer (Cn)

VEHEMENT, destroyer, 1.17 – ordered to complete as minelayer (Cn)

VELOX, destroyer, 10.5.18 – assisted mine-damaged destroyer Warwick back to Dover after second Ostend Raid (Cn)

VENERABLE, battleship, 8.14 – remained with 5BS, serving on Channel patrols; up to 10.14 and in 3.15 - bombarded Belgian coast; 5.15 - ordered to Dardanelles to relieve Queen Elizabeth; 14-21.8.15 - took part in Suvla operations, then transferred to Adriatic to support Italian Navy against the Austrians; early 1918 - returned to Home waters, reduced to harbour service; 1919 - paid off. (Cn)

VENGEANCE, battleship, 8.14 - joined 8th BS in the Channel and on Atlantic patrols; 11.14 - to West Africa for operations against the Cameroons, then to Egypt, and Cape Verde. 1.15 - at Gibraltar, became flagship of Admiral de Robeck, went to the Dardanelles, took part in the bombardments; 25.4.15 – took part in Cape Helles landing; 11.15 - returned to Egypt, then served in East Indies, Egypt, East Africa and Cape of Good Hope; 1917 - returned home and rearmed, became ordnance depot at Devonport; 1919 - paid off. (Cn)

VENTUROUS, destroyer, 1.17 – ordered to complete as minelayer (Cn)

VENUS, light cruiser, ex-2nd-class cruiser, as of 8.14 – 3rd Fleet, Portsmouth; 8.14 - joined 11th Cruiser Squadron in Ireland; 10.14 - captured two German merchantmen; 11.14 - lost foremast in gale; 1916 - to Egypt; 3.17 – Singapore; 1919 – flagship, East Indies; 5.19 - returned home to pay off (Cn)

VESTAL, gunnery tender, ex-sloop, as of 8.14 - gunnery tender at Portsmouth; after 8.14 - served briefly on Belgian coast; returned to harbour service; 1921 - sold with Rinaldo (Cn)

VICTORIOUS, battleship, 8.14 – due to join 9BS, but sent to Humber as guardship. 2.15 - to Elswick on Tyne to disarm, 12in turrets removed for monitors Prince Rupert and General Wolfe; 3.16 - converted to repair ship, stationed at Scapa Flow until 1919. (Cn)

VIKING, destroyer - mined near Colbart light vessel, lost stern, towed to Chatham and rebuilt (Cn)

VINDEX seaplane carrier, ex-short-sea passenger ship, 5.07 – completed, owned by Isle of Man Steam Packet Co; 15.3.15 - requisitioned by the Admiralty, second of three 1915 requisitions (plus Ben-my-Chree, Manxman. Unlike 8.14 requisitions, equipped with flying-off platforms to launch seaplanes with wheeled trolleys); 9.15 - commissioned as Vindex; 11.10.15 - purchased outright; 3.11.15 - Bristol Scout C, No. 1255, flown by Flt Lt Towler, made first take-off from a British carrier; 1915 - served at the Nore and Harwich; 4.5.16 - Tondern Raid; 1918-19 – Mediterranean; late 1919 - paid off; 2.20 - sold back to owners. Aircraft carried: Short 184s Nos 8033, 8346, N1232; Sopwith Pups Nos 9921, N6457, N6458; Bristol Scout Cs No 1255 (1915), 3028 (1916); Bristol Scout D; Sopwith Babies (Tondern Raid) (Cn)

VINDICTIVE, aircraft carrier, ex-light cruiser Cavendish, 29.6.18 – laid down; 8.17 – decision to complete as carrier with 6 folding seaplanes; 17.1.18 – launched; 6.18 – renamed Vindictive; 10.18 – completed, commissioned for Flying Squadron, Grand Fleet; 1919 – to Baltic; 6.7.19 – ran aground in Biorko Sound, seriously damaged; 8.19 – to Portsmouth to repair; 3.20 – repairs completed, into reserve; 1920-23 – trooping duties, paid off; 1923-25 – converted back to cruiser, retained name as Vindictive (Cn)

VINDICTIVE, light cruiser, ex-2nd-class cruiser, 3.12 - at the Nore, recommissioned at Portsmouth to relieve Furious as tender to Vernon (note: see FURIOUS, harbour service, ex-2nd-class cruiser); 8.14 - joined 9th Cruiser Squadron; 7.8.14 - captured German merchantman Schlesien; 8.9.14 - captured German merchantman Slawentzitz; 1915 - left 9th CS, to SE Coast of America Station; 1916-17 - served in White Sea; late 1917 – returned home; early 1918 - fitted out as assault ship for Zeebrugge Raid; 23.4.18 - badly damaged at Zeebrugge; 10.5.18 – after refitting as blockship, expended at Ostend during second raid; 16.8.20 - wreck raised, sold for BU (Cn)

VIRAGO, destroyer, from 8.14 – China Station (Cn)


W

W-class, destroyers, 11.18 – serving with 11th, 12th, 13th and 14th DFs (Grand Fleet), 20th DF (Immingham) (Cn)

WALKER, destroyer, 1918 - completed as minelayer (Cn)

WALLAROO, light cruiser, ex-3rd-class cruiser, as of 8.14 - attached to Indus as Mechanicians' training ship, rearmed for service as guardship at Chatham; 3.19 - renamed Wallington; 3.20 - reverted to Wallaroo, before being sold for BU (Cn)

WALRUS, destroyer, 1918 - completed as minelayer (Cn)

WARRIOR – see ENGADINE

WARRIOR, cruiser, ex-armoured cruiser, as of 8.14 – 1st CS, Mediterranean Fleet; 8.14 - to Adriatic to prevent breakout of German battlecruiser Goeben; to Egypt in defence of Suez Canal; 11.14 - to Gibraltar, then Sierra Leone; 12.14 - joined Grand Fleet; 31.5.16 – heavily damaged at Battle of Jutland, foundered in tow of seaplane carrier Engadine next day (Cn)

WARSPITE, dreadnought battleship, 3.15 – completed, commissioned at Devonport; 4.15 - joined 5th BS at Scapa Flow; 16.9.15 – ran aground; 17.9-20.11.15 - repaired at Rosyth; 3.12.15 - in collision with Barham; 11-21.12.15 - repaired at Devonport; 31.5.16 - Battle of Jutland, hit by 15 large shells and 5 medium, heavily damaged, detached and returned to Rosyth; 1.6-22.7.16 – under repair; 24.8.16 - seriously damaged in collision with Valiant; 26.8-28.9.16 – under repair; 2.18 – flagship, 5th BS; 12.3-16.5.18 - refitted at Rosyth; 1919 -  joined 1st BS, Atlantic Fleet; 1924-26 - partial modernisation (Cn)

WARWICK, destroyer, 1918 - completed as minelayer (Cn)

WATCHMAN, destroyer, 1918 - completed as minelayer (Cn)

WEYMOUTH, light cruiser, 10.11 – completed; as of 8.14 – 2nd LCS, Mediterranean Fleet; 8.14 - to Indian Ocean in hunt for Emden; 2-7.15 - to East Africa for operations against Konigsberg in the Rufiji River; 12.15 - to Adriatic; 1916-17 - joined 6th LCS, Grand Fleet; 12.16 - stationed at Bermuda; 1917-19 – 8th LCS at Brindisi; 2.10.18 – torpedoed and damaged by Austrian U.28 off Durazzo; 6.19 - paid off at Malta; 3.20-1.21 - after refitting, joined 7th LCS in South America (Cn)

WHIRLWIND destroyer, 1918 - completed as minelayer (Cn)

WIDGEON, river gunboat, as of 8.14 – China Station; 12.14 - paid off at Hong Kong, crews to other ships; post-war – recommissioned for service; 10.31- sold for BU at Shanghai (Cn)

WILDFIRE (ex-NYMPHE), base ship, ex-gunboat/sloop; as of 8.14 - base ship Wildfire at Sheerness; 8.14 (sic) - bombarded Belgian coast; 3.16 - diving tender, renamed Gannet; 6.17 - base ship, renamed Pembroke; 6.20 - sold for BU (Cn)

WOODCOCK, river gunboat, as of 8.14 – China Station; 12.14 - paid off at Hong Kong, crews to other ships; post-war – recommissioned for service; 1928 - sold for BU (Cn)

WOODLARK, river gunboat, as of 8.14 – China Station; 12.14 - paid off at Hong Kong, crews to other ships; post-war – recommissioned for service; 1928 - sold for BU (Cn)


Y

YARMOUTH, light cruiser, 4.12 – completed; as of 8.14 - China Station; 8.14 – joined hunt for Emden; 10.14 - captured one of Emden's colliers ex-Greek Pontoporus, sank collier Markomannia; 12.14 – joined 2nd LCS, Grand Fleet; 2.15 – joined 3rd LCS, Rosyth; 31.5.16 – Battle of Jutland; 7.16 - unsuccessfully attacked by U-boat; 1918 - rejoined 2nd LCS; 6.19 - temporary flagship at Cape, then returned home for refit; 1919-20 – 7th LCS, South America; 12.20 – into Nore Reserve; 1922-24 - attached to Signals School, Portsmouth (Cn)


Z

ZEALANDIA (ex-NEW ZEALAND, renamed in 1911), battleship, 8.14 - joined Grand Fleet; 11.15 - to Mediterranean; 1918 – major refit; 1919 - accommodation ship at Portsmouth. (Cn)

ZEDWHALE, whaler, Z -type patrol craft – one of 15 vessels, formed into three squadrons, based at Stornoway, Shetland and Peterhead. From time to time some were stationed in the Humber (Cn)

ZUBIAN, destroyer, 4.2.18 - depth-charged and sank UC.50 (Cn)


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