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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 ...
Although listing the names of dead soldiers on memorials had started with the Boer Wars, this practice was only systematically adopted after World War I, with the establishment of the Imperial War Graves Commission, which was later renamed the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Due to the rapid movement of forces in the early stages of the war ...
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 ...
British and German wounded, Bernafay Wood, 19 July 1916. Photo by Ernest Brooks.. The total number of military and civilian casualties in World War I was about 40 million: estimates range from around 15 to 22 million deaths [1] and about 23 million wounded military personnel, ranking it among the deadliest conflicts in human history.
The return from the Otranto battle—15 May 1917—brought the British cruiser HMS Dartmouth within the range of the UC-25 which had already laid mines off Brindisi. At 13:30, UC-25 torpedoed Dartmouth approximately 36 mi (31 nmi ; 58 km ) off Brindisi, for some time the ship was considered to be lost, but was manned by a rescue crew later and ...
At least 685 were lost. Other sources put the number of dead from more than 700 to more than 1,000. 685-1000 Military 1915 France: Le Calvados – This troopship with some 800 soldiers on board was torpedoed on 4 November by German submarine SM U-38 between Marseille and Oran. There were only 55 survivors. 740 Military 1915
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 ...
Even with the inspections from neutral countries the German High command alleged that hospital ships were violating Article Four by transporting able-bodied soldiers to the battleground. [4] The biggest hospital ship sunk by either mine or torpedo in the First World War was Britannic, the sister of Olympic and the ill-fated Titanic.