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Revision as of 15:06, 8 February 2017

H.M.S. Ben-my-Chree (1908)
Pendant Number: P.49 (Jan 1915)[1]
Builder: Vickers[2]
Laid down: 1907[3]
Launched: 23 Mar, 1908[4]
Completed: 1908[5]
Requisitioned: 2 Jan, 1915[6]
Commissioned: 2 Jan, 1915[7]
Sunk: 11 Jan, 1917[8]
Fate: by shore batteries

H.M.S. Ben-my-Chree was a steamer requisitioned and converted to a seaplane carrier by the Royal Navy in 1915.

Service

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 51.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 68.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 68.
  4. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 68.
  5. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 68.
  6. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 68.
  7. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 51.
  8. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 51.
  9. ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1915). p. 401f.
  10. ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1916). p. 401l.
  11. ↑ Hepper. British Warship Losses in the Ironclad Era: 1860-1919. p. 77.

Bibliography

British Aviation Ships
Experimental Cruiser Platform, 1913
Hermes
Seaplane Carriers from Converted Steamers
Ark Royal Empress Riviera Engadine Campania Pegasus
Ben-my-Chree Vindex Manxman Nairana Vindictive
Seaplane Carriers from Seized German Steamers
Anne Raven II
Flat Decked Conversions
Argus Furious
Through-Deck Carriers
Eagle Hermes
Kite Balloon Ships
Canning City of Oxford Hector Manica Menelaus



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