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Latest revision as of 16:42, 5 April 2018

H.M.S. Aquitania (1913)
Pendant Number: M.50
MI.51 (Jan 1918)
MI.29 (Apr 1918)[1]
Builder: John Brown & Company[2]
Yard Number: 409[3]
Ordered: 8 December, 1910[4]
Laid down: Dec, 1910[5]
Launched: 21 Apr, 1913[6]
Commissioned: 7 Aug, 1914[7]
Scrapped: 1950[8]

H.M.S. Aquitania was a commercial liner converted for use as an Armed Merchant Cruiser in the Royal Navy.

Service

Armament

She was armed with:[9]

  • twelve 6-in guns

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 119.
  2. Wikipedia.
  3. Wikipedia.
  4. Wikipedia.
  5. Wikipedia.
  6. Wikipedia.
  7. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 119.
  8. Wikipedia.
  9. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 119.
  10. Loring Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 103.
  11. Loring Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 103.

Bibliography

British Armed Merchant Cruisers
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