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Dates of appointment are provided when known.
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Revision as of 22:05, 15 January 2015

H.M.S. Paris (1913)
Pendant Number: N.59 (1914)
N.79 (Jan 1918)[1]
Launched: 1913[2]
Requisitioned: 14 Nov, 1914[3]
Left service: 5 Nov, 1919[4]

H.M.S. Paris was a merchant vessel used as a minelayer by the Royal Navy.

Service

She was fitted out at Blackwall as a minelayer[5] and listed as a new member of the Minelayer Squadron in December.[6] She would work with them throughout the war, but was apparently more loosely affiliated with them from August, 1918.[7]

Armament

Guns

Her guns were as follows.[8]

  • one 4-in
  • one 12-pdr
  • one 6-pdr H.A.

Mines

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 118.
  2. ↑ This year may be incorrect.
  3. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 118.
  4. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 118.
  5. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 118.
  6. ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (December, 1914). p. 11.
  7. ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (August, 1918). p. 16. She is one of three listed as "other minelayers" alongside the two Mining Squadrons.
  8. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 118.
  9. ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, Mining Appendix, 1917-18. Plate 7.
  10. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 118.
  11. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1915). p. 401s.
  12. ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1916). p. 401w.

Bibliography


Minelayer H.M.S. Paris



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