H.M.S. PC 61 (1917)

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H.M.S. PC 61 (1917)
Builder: Workman Clark & Company[1]
Ordered: December, 1916[2]
Launched: 19 Jun, 1917[3]
Sold: Apr, 1923[4]

H.M.S. PC 61 was one of twenty "PC" class patrol boats built for the Royal Navy.

The boat was sometimes referred to as P 61 or PQ 61 in contemporary documents.

Service

In January, 1919, she was one of 13 "P" and "PC" boats allocated to mine clearance officers, working out of Devonport. She was assigned to Area 9.[5] She was one of eight such boats that kept at the task longer than most, being still at work in July, though her whereabouts may have changed in the interim.[6]

Reduced to C. & M. Party at the Nore on 16 October, 1919.[7]

In January, 1921, she was at Harwich, paid off along with forty-one minesweepers.[8]

By the end of 1922, she was one of three patrol craft in the care of Shipkeepers in Chatham.[9]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 96.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 96.
  3. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 99.
  4. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 96.
  5. Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (January, 1919). p. 17.
  6. Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (July, 1919). p. 15.
  7. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 822.
  8. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 707a.
  9. The Navy List. (January, 1923). pp. 789.
  10. The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 396g.
  11. Douton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 240/57/220. f. 221.
  12. The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 860.
  13. Douton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 240/57/220. f. 221.
  14. "Naval Appointments." The Times (London, England), 27 May 1919, p. 18.

Bibliography


"PC" Class Patrol Boat
December, 1916 Order
PC 42 PC 43 PC 44 PC 51 PC 55
PC 56 PC 60 PC 61 PC 62 PC 63
January, 1917 Order
  PC 65 PC 66 PC 67  
  PC 68 PC 69 PC 70  
June, 1917 Order
  PC 71 PC 72 PC 73 PC 74  
<– "P" Class Small Fry (UK) Kil Class –>