RN Depot, Repair and Support Ships:

[jbryce1437]

HMS Thames was built by Pembroke Dockyard in 1885 and was converted to a Submarine Depot ship in 1903. She served until 1920 and was sold to the South African Navy.

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[designeraccd]

Many GR8 auxiliary ship pics, but where is THE most important one of WW2??? Don't remember her name, but her sole purpose was to BREW BEER! She was??? DFO

[jbryce1437]

HMS Titania built as a Submarine Depot ship by the Clyde Shipbuilding Company at Glasgow in 1915. She served in both World Wars and was scrapped in 1948.

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[jbryce1437]

HMS Tyne (1878) was purchased, while being built for the Moss Line, for completion as a troopship and store carrier. From 1909 she was a Destroyer Depot ship and she served during the First World war. She foundered in a gale off Sheerness in 1920 while awaiting disposal.

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[jbryce1437]

Further to the first post on this thread, HMS Tyne (1940) was a Hecla Class Destroyer Depot ship built by Scotts Shipbuilding at Greenock. She served mainly at Scapa Flow until 1944 and transferred to Portsmouth for Operation Neptune and returned to Scapa afterwards. She was allocated to the British Pacific Fleet train. She spent some time in reserve at Harwich and then took part in the Korean War, returning to the UK in 1954. From 1964 she was used as an Accommodation Ship at Devonport and was scrapped in 1972.

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[jbryce1437]

HMS Vienna was built by John Brown at Clydebank in 1929 as a passsenger ship for the London & North Eastern Railway Co. She was purchased by the Admiralty in 1941 and, as HMS Vienna, became a Coastal Forces Depot ship. She was withdrawn from service in 1944 and reverted to Troop carrying between Harwich and Hook of Holland.

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[jbryce1437]

HMS Vulcan (1898) was a Torpedo Boat Depot ship built by Portsmouth Dockyard. She was converted to a Submarine Tender in 1909. She was then used as a training hulk and was renamed HMS Defiance III in 1931.

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[jbryce1437]

HMS Vulcan (1937) was a trawler used as a Depot Ship for Coastal Forces vessels she then served as a repair ship for a minesweeping flotilla and was paid off in 1947.

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HMS VULCAN ex aston villa at Malta With MTB 01 & MTB O6 MTB 05 and others alongside dated 101937.jpg

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hms vulcan coastal forces depot ship at malta with mtb 01 & mtb o6 and others alongside dated 91937.jpg

[jbryce1437]

Built as the passenger ship Antonia by Vickers Ltd at Barrow in Furness in 1922, she was requisitioned by the Admiralty in 1940 for use as an Armed Merchant Cruiser. She was sold to the Admiralty in 1942 and converted to a Repair Ship and renamed HMS Wayland. She was scrapped in 1948.

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[jbryce1437]

The passenger liner Montcalm was requisitioned by the Admiralty in 1939 for use as an Armed Merchant Cruiser. She was purchased and converted to a Submarine Depot ship in 1942 and renamed HMS Wolfe. She was scrapped in 1952.

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