H.M.S. Dee (1877)

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H.M.S. Dee (1877)
Builder: Palmer Shipbuilding and Iron Company, Jarrow[1]
Launched: 4 Apr, 1877[Citation needed]
Commissioned: 21 Jun, 1882[2]
Sold: 1902[3]

H.M.S. Dee was one of twelve Medina Class flatiron gunboats completed for the Royal Navy.

Service

Dee and Don appear to have left Portsmouth for Malta upon being commissioned, where they were promptly paid off for an extended period.

In mid-1884, Dee shared an Engineer Officer with the flatiron gunboat Don, that officer being borne in Hibernia at Malta.[4]

By APril 1885, both boats were being prepared for commissioning.[5]

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 112.
  2. ↑ "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), 22 June 1882, p. 6.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 112.
  4. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1884). p. 205.
  5. ↑ "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), 1 Apr. 1885, p. 10.
  6. ↑ "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), 20 June 1882, p. 10.

Bibliography


Medina Class Flatiron Gunboat
Medina Medway Sabrina Spey Tay
Tees Dee Don Esk Slaney
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