RN Cruisers: Active Class 1911

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RN Cruisers: Active Class 1911

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The Active class were a trio of scout cruisers built for the Royal Navy. They were initially assigned to the First Fleet and became destroyer flotilla leaders in 1914. Amphion and Fearless and their flotillas were assigned to the Harwich Force when the war began in August 1914. They went out on a patrol on the first day of the war and Amphion and her destroyers encountered and sank a German minelayer. On the voyage home, the cruiser struck a mine laid by the German ship and sank. She was the first ship of the Royal Navy to be sunk in the war. Some photos:


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Re: RN Cruisers: Active Class 1911

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Active Class Scout Cruiser HMS Amphion pictured c1914..Ordered as part of the 1910 Naval Programme, Amphion was laid down at Pembroke Dockyard's No. 5 Slipway on March 15th 1911 and completed in March 1913..she was initially assigned to the First Fleet and became a Destroyer Flotilla Leader in mid-1914. When the war began, her Flotilla was assigned to the Harwich Force. While patrolling on the first full day of the war, Amphion and her Destroyers encountered and sank German Minelayer, SMS Königin Luise, but not before she had laid many of her mines. While returning from patrolling the following morning, Amphion struck a mine on August 6th 1914 off the Thames Estuary and sank with the loss of 132 crewmen killed. She was the first ship of the RN to be sunk in the First World War. The wreck site is protected and may not be dived upon without permission from the Ministry of Defence.
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