H.M.S. Shearwater (1900)

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H.M.S. Shearwater (1900)
Builder: Sheerness DYd[1]
Laid down: 1899[2]
Launched: 10 Feb, 1900[3]
Completed: 1900[4]
Commissioned: 24 Oct, 1901[5]
Sold: May, 1922[6]
Fate: Mercantile

H.M.S. Shearwater was one of six Condor Class sloops completed for the Royal Navy.

In 1915, she was transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy and became the submarine depot ship H.M.C.S. Shearwater.

Service

After leaving the Nore in early November, 1901 to relieve the screw sloop Icarus on the Pacific Station, Shearwater ran aground in the Strait of Magellan on 19 January, 1902. Although a Court of Enquiry assigned no blame for the incident, the Admiralty scolded navigational lieutenant Conron.[7]

She re-commissioned at Esquimalt on 25 November, 1910.[8]

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Lyon; Winfield. The Steam & Sail List. p. 279.
  2. Lyon; Winfield. The Steam & Sail List. p. 279.
  3. Lyon; Winfield. The Steam & Sail List. p. 279.
  4. Lyon; Winfield. The Steam & Sail List. p. 279.
  5. The Navy List. (January, 1904). p. 376.
  6. Lyon; Winfield. The Steam & Sail List. p. 279.
  7. Conron Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/444. f. 512. In our PDF for Benjamin Wingate Barrow.
  8. The Navy List. (August, 1912). p. 375.
  9. "Naval & military intelligence" The Times (London). Friday, 25 October 1901. (36595), p. 8.
  10. The Navy List. (May, 1903). p. 303.
  11. Hunt Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 354.
  12. Hunt Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 354.
  13. The Navy List. (March, 1907). p. 375.
  14. The Navy List. (January, 1910). p. 375.
  15. Vivian Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 63.
  16. Vivian Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 63.
  17. The Navy List. (August, 1912). p. 375.
  18. Keyes Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/47/75. f. 280.

Bibliography


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