• Engineering Company, Govan in 1914. She was launched as 16 December 1914 and completed for service in the Royal Navy as HMS Melampus on 29 June 1915. On 16 April...
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  • ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Melampus after the legendary Greek soothsayer Melampus. HMS Melampus (1757) was a fifth-rate frigate captured...
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  • Greek destroyer Chios (1914), a Medea-class destroyer ordered in Britain, entered service with the British Royal Navy as HMS Melampus Chios (1922–1923), a...
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    home waters, then HMS Thrush on the North America and West Indies Station. His last active service was in command of HMS Melampus in 1891–1892. From...
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    By May 1890 I/C the gunboat HMS Thrush 24 August 1891: Commander, I/C HMS Melampus 2 January 1893: Captain, Royal Navy 1 January 1901: Rear-Admiral, Royal...
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    indeed from Melampus, they had been impressed into Royal Navy service from the beginning. He therefore refused to release them back to Melampus and nothing...
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    needed] Her ownership passed to the International Navigation Company in 1914 and the UK Leyland Line in 1927. In the First World War she was converted...
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    1914, List of vessels fitted with refrigerating appliances — Part II. "Condensed despatches". The Daily Kennebec Journal. Augusta, ME. 1 April 1914....
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    1909, she was captured by the German light cruiser SMS Emden on 4 August 1914 and converted into a raider at the German colony Kiautschou. She was forced...
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    voyage in 1907, and on RMS Olympic when she was damaged in a collision with HMS Hawke in 1911. Priest then served on the armed merchant cruiser Alcantara...
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    the early 1910s; Melampus in 1910,Pique, Retribution and Tribune in 1911, Melpomene in 1913, and Aeolus, Scylla & Terpsichore in 1914. The remainder found...
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  • Stockton-on-Tees that was rated at 299 NHP. As built, the ship was a coal-burner. By 1914 she had been converted to burn oil fuel. In 1895 Albert Smith of London bought...
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    HMS Jason was a Alarm-class torpedo gunboat of the British Royal Navy. She was built by the Naval Construction & Engineering Co. from 1891–1893. She was...
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    and after turning away, exchanged fire with the crippled British destroyer HMS Shark. The British destroyer managed to immobilize the German destroyer V48...
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    Marconi Press Agency Ltd (1914). The Year Book of Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony. London: The Marconi Press Agency Ltd. p. 381. "HMS Arcadian". m.iwm.org...
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    residing British consul to turn over three deserters from the British ship Melampus who had enlisted in the American Navy through Lieutenant Arthur Sinclair...
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  • constructed. G85 was sunk in the Battle of Dover Strait on 21 April 1917 by HMS Swift. In this action, two groups of German destroyers set out to bombard...
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  • Vessels Captured or Destroyed by the Enemy". British Vessels Lost at Sea, 1914-18 and 1939-45 (3rd ed.). Wellingborough, UK: Patrick Stephens. pp. 1–99...
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    crew she had on board is unknown. Setting out from Qingdao on August 10, 1914 for a commerce raiding cruise in the South Pacific, SMS Cormoran failed to...
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  • HMS Medusa was a Medea-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy. She was one of four destroyers, of similar design to the British M-class ordered by...
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  • HMS Melpomene was a Medea-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy. She was one of four destroyers, of similar design to the British M-class ordered...
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    an RAF station. HMS Melampus, a shore base, was also based at Bathurst for some of the war, and in 1942, a light cruiser named HMS Gambia was launched...
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    les combattants oubliés: Tome I 1914–1915 [The French Navy during the Great War: The Forgotten Combatants, Book I 1914–1915]. Collection Navires & Histoire...
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    sunk by HMS Laverock off of Schleswig 25 March 1916. Melampus (ex-Chios) Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan 1914 16 December 1914 29 June...
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    Town hosted delegations from Seeadler and the British protected cruiser HMS Hermes. And at the end of December, the princes Leopold and Georg of Bavaria...
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  • 1900, and again in 1901. In January 1901 she was a tender to the cruiser Melampus in Kingstown. In 1905 Skipjack was in reserve, but after refit, she returned...
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  • Retrieved 31 December 2012. "P26". Uboat.net. Retrieved 1 December 2012. "HMS P-26 (aft part) [+1917]". Wrecksite. Retrieved 18 February 2013. "Pluto"...
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    commanded by Lieutenant de Vaisseau Deslandes, captured by HMS Melampus. Taken into British service as HMS Colibri, wrecked on 23 August 1813 in Port Royal Sound...
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    Engineering Explorer) after Selene, and was also known as Kaguya in Japan. HMS Selene (P254), a 1944 British submarine and Ghia Selene, a concept car from...
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    country's first airport. HMS Melampus, a shore base, was based at Bathurst for some of the war, and in 1942, a light cruiser named HMS Gambia was launched...
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