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'''H.M.S. ''Viknor''''' was a commercial liner originally named ''Atrato'' before being renamed ''The Viking'' in 1912 that was converted for use as an Armed Merchant Cruiser in the [[Royal Navy]].
 
'''H.M.S. ''Viknor''''' was a commercial liner originally named ''Atrato'' before being renamed ''The Viking'' in 1912 that was converted for use as an Armed Merchant Cruiser in the [[Royal Navy]].
  
 
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''Viknor'' was lost with all hands, 295 lives in all.
  
 
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Latest revision as of 14:11, 13 June 2017

H.M.S. Viknor (1888)
Pendant Number: M.82[1]
Yard Number: 410[2]
Launched: 22 Sep, 1888[3]
Commissioned: 12 Dec, 1914[4]
Mined: 13 Jan, 1915[5]
Fate: north of Ireland

H.M.S. Viknor was a commercial liner originally named Atrato before being renamed The Viking in 1912 that was converted for use as an Armed Merchant Cruiser in the Royal Navy.

Service

Viknor was lost with all hands, 295 lives in all.

Armament

Unknown.[6][7]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 121.
  2. ↑ Wikipedia.
  3. ↑ Wikipedia.
  4. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1915). p. 401w.
  5. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 121.
  6. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 121.
  7. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 102.
  8. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1915). p. 401v.
  9. ↑ Hepper. British Warship Losses in the Ironclad Era: 1860-1919. p. 13.

Bibliography

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