H.M.S. Ben-my-Chree (1908)

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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

On 12 August, 1915, Flight Commander Charles H. K. Edmonds flew a Short seaplane from Ben-my-Chree and conducted the first ever torpedo attack from an airplane.

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. L'Estrange-Malone Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/307. f. 667.
  10. The Navy List. (October, 1915). p. 401f.
  11. L'Estrange-Malone Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/307. f. 667.
  12. The Navy List. (December, 1916). p. 401l.
  13. Hepper. British Warship Losses in the Ironclad Era: 1860-1919. p. 77.

Bibliography

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Kite Balloon Ships
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