RN Depot, Repair and Support Ships:

[jbryce1437]

HMS Medway (1928) was a Submarine Depot Ship built by Vickers Armstrong, Barrow in Furness and commissioned in July 1929. She served on the China Station before the Second World War and was sunk by U off Port Said in June 1942.

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[ivorthediver]

Thanks again Jim , excellent photo's again , but why are the P.O.'s on deck Cross

[jbryce1437]

The passenger liner Montclare was requisitioned by the Admiralty in August 1939 to serve as an Armed Merchant Cruiser. She was sold to the Admiralty in 1942 and HMS Montclare was converted into a Destroyer Depot Ship. She served with the British Pacific Fleet and, postwar, was converted into a Submarine Depot ship and spent much of her time at Gareloch. She was scrapped in 1958.

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[jbryce1437]

HMS Onyx (1892) was an Alarm Class Torpedo Gunboat, built by Cammell Laird and was converted to a depot ship in 1907. She was renamed HMS Vulcan II in 1919 and was sold in 1924.

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[jbryce1437]

Formerly the cargo ship Seti, launched at Liverpool in 1902, she was purchased by the Admiralty in 1913 and renamed HMS Pandora. She served during the First World War at Harwich with the Eighth Submarine and Ninth Submarine Flotillas from 1915 to 1918. She was used as an Accommodation Ship at Portsmouth from 1923 and was renamed HMS Dolphin in 1924. She was sunk by a mine off Blyth in Northumberland while under tow to become a Block Ship.

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[jbryce1437]

HMS Philoctetes was built by Scotts Shipbuilding at Greenock in 1922. She was requisitioned by the Admiralty in 1940 and converted to a Destroyer Depot and Repair ship. She was based at Freetown, Sierra Leone until 1945 and was scrapped in 1948.

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[jbryce1437]

SS Ranpura was a Passenger Liner built by Hawthorn Leslie at Hebburn in 1924. She was requisitioned by the Admiralty in 1939 and converted to an Armed Merchant Cruiser. She was sold to the Admiralty in 1943 and HMS Ranpura was converted to a Repair and Depot ship and served until 1961 when she was scrapped.

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[jbryce1437]

HMS Resource was a Fleet Repair Ship, built by Vickers Armstrong, Barrow in Furness in 1928. She served mainly in the Meditteranean up to and during the Second World War and transferred to the Eastern Fleet in 1944. She was scrapped in 1954.

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[jbryce1437]

HMS Rosario (1898) was built by Sheerness Dockyard and completed as a Sloop. She was converted to a Submarine Depot ship in 1910. During the First World War she served as a Submarine Depot ship at Hong Kong and was sold at Hong Kong in 1921.

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[jbryce1437]

HMS Sandhurst was formerly the SS Manipur. She was requisitioned in 1914 and bought by the Admiralty in 1915. She served as the dummy battleship Indomitable and was then converted to a Fleet Repair ship. She served in both World Wars and was broken up in 1946.

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