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HMS Caledonia was a training ship launched in 1810 as the 98-gun second rate HMS Impregnable (1810). She became a training ship in 1862, was renamed HMS Kent in 1888, HMS Caledonia in 1891, and was sold for breaking up in 1906. HMS Caledonia was a cadet training ship, formerly the liner RMS Majestic (1914). She was transferred to the navy in ...
In September 1939, the liner was decommissioned from passenger service and requisitioned by the Royal Navy as an armed merchant cruiser and was renamed as HMS Scotstoun. [3] She was credited with capturing the 6386-ton German tanker Biscaya off Reykjavík on 19 October 1939 and, in company with sister ship HMS Transylvania , sinking the 5864 ...
The site was subsequently reduced to become part of HMS Cochrane. [1] [2] Just before the beginning of the Second World War, Boys' Training Ship Caledonia was based here. [3] By this time Admiral Sir Charles Ramsey, the Commander-in-Chief, Rosyth, responsible for naval operations in the area, was based at HMS Cochrane just down the road at the ...
HMS Otranto: 1909 Collided with HMS Kashmir, and sank on October 6, 1918 S.S. Otranto in 1909. SS Otway: 1909 Torpedoed and sunk off the Hebrides on July 23, 1917 SS Otway between 1909 and 1917: SS Pacific: 1849 Vanished and presumed lost January 1856 Steamship Pacific in 1849: Pacific: 1850 Collided with SS Orpheus, and sank on November 4, 1875
Three years later on 22 September 1891, she was once again re-named, this time HMS Caledonia, and became a Scottish boys training / school ship moored at Queensferry in the Firth of Forth. As HMS Caledonia, she was to spend the next 15 years at anchor in the Firth of Forth as a training ship for boys. The ship was divided up for training by ...
HMS Suffolk (55) was one of the Kent subclass of the County-class heavy cruisers Heavy cruisers were defined by international agreement pre-war for the purposes of arms limitation as those with guns greater than 6-inch (152 mm); ships of guns of 6-inch or less were light cruisers.
HMS Caledonia was flagship of the Mediterranean Fleet until 1869 (relieving HMS Victoria, the last three-deck Royal Navy flagship) until 1872. [citation needed] In July 1871, she ran aground off Santorini, Greece. She was later refloated and taken in to Malta for repairs. [1] She was a guardship in the Firth of Forth from 1872 until 1875.
The Caledon sub-class was a slightly larger and improved version of the preceding Centaur sub-class with a more powerful armament. The ships were 450 feet 6 inches (137.3 m) long overall, with a beam of 42 feet 3 inches (12.9 m) and a deep draught of 18 feet 9 inches (5.7 m).