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Dartmouth was laid down by Vickers at their Barrow shipyard on 19 February 1910, one of four Town-class protected cruisers ordered under the 1909–1910 Naval Estimates. The four 1909–10 ships, also known as the Weymouth class, were an improved version of five similar Town-class ships laid down under the 1908–1909 Estimates, known as the Bristol class, with a heavier main armament of eight ...
HMS Dartmouth (1698) was a 50-gun fourth rate launched in 1698. She was rebuilt in 1741 and sunk in action with the Spanish ship Glorioso in 1747. HMS Dartmouth (1746) was to have been a 50-gun fourth rate. She was ordered in 1746, but was cancelled in 1748. HMS Dartmouth (1813) was a 36-gun fifth rate launched in 1813. She was used for harbour ...
Prior to the First World War, only those whose parents could afford the high fees for training naval cadets on HMS Britannia, the officer training ship, or at the Royal Navy colleges at Dartmouth and Osborne, founded in 1905, could join the Royal Navy. Tuition at Osborne and Dartmouth was on a par with many of the best public schools, but ...
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HMS Dartmouth (Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, Devon) Includes Hindostan as static training ship; HMS Excellent (Whale Island, Portsmouth) HMS Raleigh (Torpoint, Cornwall) Includes Brecon as static training ship; HMS Sultan (Gosport, Hampshire) HMS Temeraire (Royal Navy School of Physical Training, Portsmouth)
Tugs / Repair / Support Ships Cable ship Iris MV Stena Seaspread. British Enterprise III 1,595 t – diving support ship; Iris 3,873 GRT – cable ship equipped with helicopter pad and two Oerlikon 20 mm cannon for use as despatch vessel from late May. [6] [33] Irishman 686 GRT – ocean salvage tug from 24 May. [6] [27]
Battleships Bouvet (mined and sunk on March 18, 1915, 660 men killed); Charlemagne; Gaulois; Henri IV; Jauréguiberry; Masséna (hulk scuttled off Cape Helles in November 1915); Saint Louis
List Click on headers to sort columns. List of cruisers of World War I Ship Operator Class Type Displacement (tons) First commissioned Fate Achilles Royal Navy Warrior armored cruiser 13,550 22 April 1907 sold for scrap 9 May 1921 Adamastor Portuguese Navy unprotected cruiser 1,729 3 August 1897 decommissioned 16 October 1933, scrapped April 1934 Admiral Makarov Imperial Russian Navy Bayan ...