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Revision as of 15:09, 29 March 2017
| 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 Charles H. Dare, 14 December, 1900[8]
- Commander Louis J. MacHutchin, 22 February, 1905[9]
- Captain Anthony F. Gurney, 10 November, 1906[10] – 14 November, 1908
- Captain William S. Bowman, 14 November, 1908[11]
- Captain Alfred C. Sykes, 15 November, 1910[12]
- Captain Harry M. K. Betty, 15 January, 1913[13] – 1 April, 1919[14][15]
- Captain Wilfred Henderson, 1 April, 1919[16][17]
- Captain Ronald E. Chilcott, 10 January, 1921[18]
- Captain Colin A. M. Sarel, 17 August, 1922[19]
- Captain Albert J. Robertson, 15 March, 1927 – May, 1928
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. (May, 1903). p. 230.
- ↑ The Navy List. (November, 1905). p. 280.
- ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1908). p. 280.
- ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1909). p. 280.
- ↑ The Navy List. (August, 1912). p. 280.
- ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 734.
- ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 734.
- ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1919). p. 728.
- ↑ Henderson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/334. ff. 334, 218.
- ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1919). p. 728.
- ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 728.
- ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1924). p. 216.
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).
