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'''H.M.S. ''Pandora''''' was S. S. ''Seti'', purchased on 11 November, 1914 to serve as a depot ship in the [[Royal Navy]].  She was renamed '''H.M.S. ''Dolphin''''' in 1924.
'''H.M.S. ''Pandora''''' was S. S. ''Seti'', purchased on 11 November, 1914 to serve as a depot ship in the [[Royal Navy]].  She was renamed '''H.M.S. ''Dolphin''''' in 1924.


Note: There was also a cruiser named {{UK-1Pandora}} launched in 1900.
Note: There was also a cruiser named {{UK-2Pandora}} launched in 1900.


==Service==
==Service==
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She recommissioned on 3 January, 1921.{{NLJan21|p. 822}}
She recommissioned on 3 January, 1921.{{NLJan21|p. 822}}
She took the name and duties of {{UK-Dolphin|f=p}} as parent ship to the submarines at Fort Blockhouse on 15 October, 1924.{{ToL|Fleet News|Monday, September 15, 1924, Issue 43757, p.17}}


==Captains==
==Captains==
Dates of appointment given.
Dates of appointment given.


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<div name=fredbot:officeCapts otitle="Captain of H.M.S. ''Pandora''" nat="UK">
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Gilbert Hilton Kellett|nick=Gilbert H. Kellett|appt=December, 1920{{NLJan21|p. 822}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Fitzroy Hamilton Dalrymple Byron|nick=Fitzroy H. D. Byron|appt=24 May, 1919<ref>Byron Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49/315.|D7604412}} f. 169.</ref>|end=10 August, 1919<ref>Byron Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49/315.|D7604412}} f. 169.</ref>|note=and for duty with submarines}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Victor Lindsey Arbuthnot Campbell|nick=Victor L. A. Campbell|appt=27 May, 1919<ref>Campbell Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/96/151.|D8116783}} f. 184.</ref>|end=c. early June, 1919{{INF}}|note=taking her from Harwich to Devonport}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Gilbert Hilton Kellett|nick=Gilbert H. Kellett|appt=December, 1920<ref>Kellett Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49/204.|D7604302}} f. ?.</ref>{{NLJan21|p. 822}}|end=24 February, 1922<ref>Kellett Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49/204.|D7604302}} f. ?.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=John Graham Bower|nick=John G. Bower|appt=25 February, 1922<ref>Bower Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/50/99.|D7604511}} f. 222.</ref>|end=November, 1922<ref>Bower Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/50/99.|D7604511}} f. 222.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Charles Thomas Alexander Bunbury|nick=Charles T. A. Bunbury|appt=25 January, 1923<ref>Bunbury Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46/13.|D7603520}} f. 13.</ref>{{NLJan23|p. 756}}|end=25 January, 1923<ref>Bunbury Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46/13.|D7603520}} f. 13.</ref>|note=temporary, for passage}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=John Fenwick Hutchings|nick=John F. Hutchings|appt=15 October, 1924<ref>Hutchings Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49/270.|D7604367}} f. 146.</ref>|end=15 April, 1924<ref>Hutchings Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49/270.|D7604367}} f. 146.</ref>|note=and as Captain (S)|as=Captain of H.M.S. ''Dolphin''}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Geoffrey Layton|nick=Geoffrey Layton|appt=31 December, 1924{{NLJul27|p. 231}}|end=|note=and as Chief Staff Officer to R/A (S) Nicholson|as=Captain of H.M.S. ''Dolphin''}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Charles Gordon Brodie|nick=Charles G. Brodie|appt=3 August, 1925<ref>Brodie Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48.|}} f. 600.</ref>|end=10 October, 1927<ref>Brodie Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48.|}} f. 600.</ref>|note=and as Captain (S)|as=Captain of H.M.S. ''Dolphin''}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Charles Gordon Brodie|nick=Charles G. Brodie|appt=3 August, 1925<ref>Brodie Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48.|}} f. 600.</ref>|end=10 October, 1927<ref>Brodie Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48.|}} f. 600.</ref>|note=and as Captain (S)|as=Captain of H.M.S. ''Dolphin''}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Reginald Burnard Darke|nick=Reginald B. Darke|appt=15 June, 1929<ref>Darke Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50/88.|D7604500}} Unnumbered folio.</ref>|end=4 August, 1931<ref>Darke Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50/88.|D7604500}} Unnumbered folio.</ref>|note=and as Captain (S)|as=Captain of H.M.S. ''Dolphin''}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Robert Ross Turner|nick=Robert R. Turner|appt=15 June, 1927<ref>Turner Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50/13.|D7604426}} f. ?.</ref>{{NLJan28|p. 232}}|end=15 June, 1929<ref>Turner Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50/13.|D7604426}} f. ?.</ref>|note=and as Captain (S)|as=Captain of H.M.S. ''Dolphin''}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Henry Mangles Denham|nick=Henry M. Denham|end=8 January, 1935<ref>Superseded that day.  O'Donnell Service Record {{TNA|ADM 196/56.|D7605961}} f. 14.</ref>|as=Captain of H.M.S. ''Dolphin''}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Reginald Burnard Darke|nick=Reginald B. Darke|appt=15 June, 1929<ref>Darke Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50/88.|D7604500}} f. ?.</ref>|end=4 August, 1931<ref>Darke Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50/88.|D7604500}} f. ?.</ref>|note=and as Captain (S)|as=Captain of H.M.S. ''Dolphin''}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=George Eric Maxia O'Donnell|nick=George E. M. O'Donnell|appt=8 January, 1935<ref>O'Donnell Service Record {{TNA|ADM 196/56.|D7605961}} f. 14.</ref>|end=25 January, 1937<ref>O'Donnell Service Record {{TNA|ADM 196/56.|D7605961}} f. 14.</ref>|as=Captain of H.M.S. ''Dolphin''}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=George Pirie Thomson|nick=George P. Thomson|appt=4 August, 1931|end=21 January, 1933|note=and as Captain (S)|as=Captain of H.M.S. ''Dolphin''}}
{{TenureListEnd}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Frederick Henry Taylor|nick=Frederick H. Taylor|appt=20 January, 1933|end=1 March, 1935|note=and as Captain (S)|as=Captain of H.M.S. ''Dolphin''}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Cyril George Bucknill Coltart|nick=Cyril G. B. Coltart|appt=1 June, 1933|end=28 September, 1934|note=and as Chief Staff Officer|as=Captain of H.M.S. ''Dolphin''}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Allan Poland|nick=Allan Poland|appt=1 March, 1935<ref>Poland Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/51/306.|D7605061}} f. 322.</ref>|end=5 February, 1937<ref>Poland Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/51/306.|D7605061}} f. 322.</ref>|note=and as Captain (S)|as=Captain of H.M.S. ''Dolphin''}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Geoffrey Meredith Keble Keble-White|nick=Geoffrey M. K. Keble-White|appt=8 February, 1937{{NLJul37|p. 231}}|end=|note=and as Captain (S)|as=Captain of H.M.S. ''Dolphin''}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Cyril George Bucknill Coltart|nick=Cyril G. B. Coltart|appt=11 July, 1939|end=10 December, 1939|note=and as Captain (S), {{UK-SF|5}}|as=Captain of H.M.S. ''Dolphin''}}
</div name=fredbot:officeCapts>
</div name=fredbot:officeCapts>
Brodie and Layton seem to overlap each other.  I am unsure about whether Coltart was in command or if that role fell to Rear-Admiral (S) [[Noel Frank Laurence]].


==See Also==
==See Also==
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Latest revision as of 12:52, 11 March 2020

H.M.S. Pandora (1902)
Pendant Number: N.71 (1914)
N.78 (Jan 1918)[1]
Builder: Raylton Dixon[2]
Launched: 5 Jul, 1902[3]
Mined: 23 Nov, 1939[4]

H.M.S. Pandora was S. S. Seti, purchased on 11 November, 1914 to serve as a depot ship in the Royal Navy. She was renamed H.M.S. Dolphin in 1924.

Note: There was also a cruiser named Pandora launched in 1900.

Service

Pandora served submarines in Harwich from the Eighth Submarine Flotilla and Ninth Submarine Flotilla from 1915 to 1918.[5]

She recommissioned on 3 January, 1921.[6]

She took the name and duties of H.M.S. Dolphin as parent ship to the submarines at Fort Blockhouse on 15 October, 1924.[7]

Captains

Dates of appointment given.

Brodie and Layton seem to overlap each other. I am unsure about whether Coltart was in command or if that role fell to Rear-Admiral (S) Noel Frank Laurence.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 294.
  2. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 294.
  3. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 294.
  4. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 294.
  5. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 294.
  6. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 822.
  7. ↑ "Fleet News." The Times (London, England), Monday, September 15, 1924, Issue 43757, p.17.
  8. ↑ Byron Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/315. f. 169.
  9. ↑ Byron Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/315. f. 169.
  10. ↑ Campbell Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/96/151. f. 184.
  11. ↑ Kellett Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/204. f. ?.
  12. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 822.
  13. ↑ Kellett Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/204. f. ?.
  14. ↑ Bower Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/99. f. 222.
  15. ↑ Bower Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/99. f. 222.
  16. ↑ Bunbury Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/13. f. 13.
  17. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1923). p. 756.
  18. ↑ Bunbury Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/13. f. 13.
  19. ↑ Hutchings Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/270. f. 146.
  20. ↑ Hutchings Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/270. f. 146.
  21. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1927). p. 231.
  22. ↑ Brodie Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48. f. 600.
  23. ↑ Brodie Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48. f. 600.
  24. ↑ Turner Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/13. f. ?.
  25. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1928). p. 232.
  26. ↑ Turner Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/13. f. ?.
  27. ↑ Darke Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/88. f. ?.
  28. ↑ Darke Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/88. f. ?.
  29. ↑ Poland Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/306. f. 322.
  30. ↑ Poland Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/306. f. 322.
  31. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 231.

Bibliography

  • Chesneau, Robert; Kolesnik, Eugene (editors) (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).



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