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|fg=white|bg=crimson}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''H.M.S. ''Dolphin''''' was one of two [[Dolphin Class Sloop (1882)|''Dolphin'' Class composite screw sloops]] completed for the [[Royal Navy]].
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|fg=white|bg=crimson}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''H.M.S. ''Dolphin''''' was one of two [[Dolphin Class Sloop (1882)|''Dolphin'' Class composite screw sloops]] completed for the [[Royal Navy]].  She served as a submarine depot ship in the [[Great War]].
  
 
==Service==
 
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In 1907, ''Dolphin'' was made an accommodation ship for submarines.{{Conways1860|p. 57}}
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She became an independent command in Portsmouth on 31 August, 1912 under {{CaptRN}} [[Roger John Brownlow Keyes, First Baron Keyes|Roger J. B. Keyes]], Commodore 2nd Class in charge of Submarine Service.{{NLJul13|p. 301}}
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In mid-1913, ''Dolphin'' was servicing the {{UK-SF|2}}{{NLJul13|p. 301}} and was still doing so at the outset of the war.  In September 1916, she moved over to assist the {{UK-SF|6}} until the end of the war.<ref>See {{UK-SF|2}} and {{UK-SF|6}} for citations.</ref>
  
 
==Captains==
 
==Captains==
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Sydney Marow Eardley Wilmot|nick=Sydney M. Eardley Wilmot|appt=1 May, 1884{{NLJul86|p. 207}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Horatio Nelson Dudding|nick=Horatio N. Dudding|appt=24 September, 1890{{NLApr91|p. 215}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Roger John Brownlow Keyes, First Baron Keyes|nick=Roger J. B. Keyes|appt=31 August, 1912{{NLJan15|p. 304}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Sydney Stewart Hall|nick=Sydney S. Hall|appt=8 February, 1915{{NLFeb19|p. 777}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Max Kennedy Horton|nick=Max K. Horton|appt=July, 1920{{NLJan21|p. 760}}}}
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==See Also==
 
==See Also==

Revision as of 20:05, 13 February 2015

H.M.S. Dolphin (1882)
Builder: Raylton Dixon, Middlesbrough[1]
Launched: 9 Dec, 1882[2]
Sold: 1925[3]

H.M.S. Dolphin was one of two Dolphin Class composite screw sloops completed for the Royal Navy. She served as a submarine depot ship in the Great War.

Service

In 1907, Dolphin was made an accommodation ship for submarines.[4]

She became an independent command in Portsmouth on 31 August, 1912 under Captain Roger J. B. Keyes, Commodore 2nd Class in charge of Submarine Service.[5]

In mid-1913, Dolphin was servicing the Second Submarine Flotilla[6] and was still doing so at the outset of the war. In September 1916, she moved over to assist the Sixth Submarine Flotilla until the end of the war.[7]

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 58.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 58.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 58.
  4. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 57.
  5. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 301.
  6. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 301.
  7. ↑ See Second Submarine Flotilla and Sixth Submarine Flotilla for citations.
  8. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1886). p. 207.
  9. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1891). p. 215.
  10. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1915). p. 304.
  11. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 777.
  12. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 760.

Bibliography


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