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Revision as of 15:26, 6 April 2015

H.M.S. Theseus (1892)
Pendant Number: 2A (1914)
N.14 (Sep 1915)
N.98 (Jan 1918)[1]
Builder: Thames Iron Works, Blackwall[2]
Laid down: 16 Jul, 1890[3]
Launched: 8 Sep, 1892[4]
Commissioned: 14 Jan, 1896[5]
Sold: 1921[6]
Fate: to Stanlee[7]

H.M.S. Theseus was one of nine protected cruisers of the Edgar class completed between 1893 and 1896.

Service

She recommissioned at Devonport on 4 February, 1913.[8] In April 1914, she was in the Training Squadron in Queenstown.

Theseus paid off at Sheerness on 10 February, 1920.[9]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 38.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 66.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 66.
  4. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 66.
  5. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 66.
  6. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 66.
  7. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 38.
  8. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1914). p. 382.
  9. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 873.
  10. ↑ St. Clair Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/37. f. 1143.
  11. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  12. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  13. ↑ Tuke Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/20. f. 637.
  14. ↑ Tuke Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/20. f. 637.
  15. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  16. ↑ Day of month taken from predecessor. Tuke Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/20. f. 637.
  17. ↑ Brownrigg Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 492.
  18. ↑ Brownrigg Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 492.
  19. ↑ Le Mesurier Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 56.
  20. ↑ Le Mesurier Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 56.
  21. ↑ The Navy List. (August, 1914). p. 382.
  22. ↑ The Navy List. (September, 1914). p. 385.
  23. ↑ The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 398j.
  24. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 918.

Bibliography

  • Chesneau, Robert; Kolesnik, Eugene (editors) (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).


Edgar Class First Class Protected Cruiser
Crescent Edgar Endymion Gibraltar Grafton
  Hawke Royal Arthur St. George Theseus  
<– Blake Class Major Cruisers (UK) Powerful Class –>


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