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Revision as of 13:42, 12 March 2015

H.M.S. Blanche (1909)
Pendant Number: 6C (1914)
17 (Jan 1918)
84 (Apr 1918)[1]
Builder: Pembroke Royal Dockyard[2]
Ordered: 1909 Programme[3]
Laid down: 12 Apr, 1909[4]
Launched: 25 Nov, 1909[5]
Commissioned: Nov, 1910[6]
Sold: 27 Jul, 1921[7]
Fate: to Fryer, Sunderland[8]

H.M.S. Blanche was a scout cruiser in the Royal Navy completed in 1910. Modern sources often treat her as a member of a two-vessel Blonde class, but we treat her as contemporary documents do, as one of seven ships of the Boadicea class.

Service

In November, 1911, Blanche was serving as a flotilla leader in the First Destroyer Flotilla.[9]

Blanche was recommissioned at Chatham on 23 January, 1913, joining the Fourth Destroyer Flotilla as flagship. On 1 July, she was to transfer to the Third Battle Squadron.[10]

She was attached to the Grand Fleet at the Battle of Jutland, under the command of Captain Casement.[11]

She recommissioned 17 February, 1917.[12] In March, she was refit to act as a minelayer capable of carrying 66 mines. She undertook 16 minelaying operations and sowed a total of 1238 mines.[13]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 45.
  2. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 45.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 50.
  4. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 50.
  5. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 45.
  6. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 50.
  7. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 45.
  8. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 45.
  9. ↑ March. British Destroyers. p. 160.
  10. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 285.
  11. ↑ Battle of Jutland Official Despatches. pp. 33, 43.
  12. ↑ The Navy List. (September, 1919). p. 742.
  13. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 117.
  14. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 285.
  15. ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1915). p. 392kk.
  16. ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1915). p. 392m.
  17. ↑ Casement Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 381.
  18. ↑ Casement Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 381.
  19. ↑ The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 391u.
  20. ↑ Drax Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45. f. 214.
  21. ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1918). p. 742.
  22. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 742.

Bibliography


Boadicea Class Scout Cruiser
Boadicea Group
  Boadicea Bellona  
Blonde Group
  Blonde Blanche  
Active Group
  Active Amphion Fearless  
<– Sentinel Class Minor Cruisers (UK) Bristol Class –>


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