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==Service== | ==Service== | ||
She commissioned at Gibraltar on 28 November, 1906.<ref>''The Navy List'' (September, 1919), p. 733.</ref> | |||
''Assistance'' served with the [[Grand Fleet]] at Scapa and Cromarty throughout the war.{{DittColl|p. 292}} | ''Assistance'' served with the [[Grand Fleet]] at Scapa and Cromarty throughout the war.{{DittColl|p. 292}} | ||
Revision as of 20:25, 19 November 2013
| H.M.S. Assistance (1900) | |
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| Pendant Number: | 8C (1914) C2 (Jan 1918)[1] |
| Builder: | Raylton Dixon[2] |
| Launched: | 23 Dec, 1900[3] |
| Commissioned: | 28 Nov, 1906.[4] |
| Handed over: | 11 Mar, 1937[5] |
H.M.S. Assistance was a civilian ship purchased on the stocks on 19 September, 1900 for use as a fleet repair ship.
Service
She commissioned at Gibraltar on 28 November, 1906.[6]
Assistance served with the Grand Fleet at Scapa and Cromarty throughout the war.[7]
Captains
Dates of appointment given.
- Captain Alfred Henderson, 1 April, 1919.[8]
- Captain Ronald Evered Chilcott, 10 January, 1921.[9]
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 292.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 292.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 292.
- ↑ The Navy List (September, 1919), p. 733.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 292.
- ↑ The Navy List (September, 1919), p. 733.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 292.
- ↑ The Navy List (September, 1919), p. 733.
- ↑ The Navy List (January, 1921), p. 728.
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).
