HMS CYCLOPS

HMS CYCLOPS

Built 1907, by Sir James Laing & Son (Sunderland, U.K.), Deptford Yard, Sunderland, UK (Yard # 609)

Displacement : 11300 tons

Overall Length : 145.1 metres x Beam 16.8 metres.

Machinery : 2 Screws each driven by a Triple Expansion Steam Engines built by Richardsons, Westgarth & Co. Ltd.

Speed : 13.0 knots

 

History POR = Port of Registry

1905: Indrabarah : Indra Line Ltd : Laid down and launched as passenger liner.

1905-1907: Purchased by the Admiralty and completed as a Submarine Depot Ship.

1907: HMS CYCLOPS : Royal Navy: Submarine Repair and Depot Ship

1907: 5 November : Cyclops was commissioned at Devonport

1914-18: Cyclops served with the Grand Fleet throughout the war

1920: 31 January : She was reduced to reserve at Sheerness.

1922: 21 December : She commissioned at Chatham for service with the First Submarine Flotilla of the Atlantic Fleet.

1926: 16 December : She was commissioned for work with the First Submarine Flotilla in the Mediterranean.

1929: 27 September : She re-commissioned at Malta for work with the First Submarine Flotilla in the Mediterranean.

1932: 29 April : Re-commissioned at Chatham to continue her previous work.

1935: 31 January : She re-commissioned at Portsmouth for work with the First Submarine Flotilla in the Mediterranean

1937: Stationed near Oran during Spanish civil war to support two squadrons of RAF flying boats that were patrolling the Mediterranean

1939: Formed Third Submarine Flotilla at Harwich

1940-1945? : At Rothesay, working with the operational boats of the 3rd Flotilla running from HMS Forth at Holy Loch, further up the River Clyde.

1947 : Sold to John Cashmore Ltd and scrapped at Newport.

 

HMS CYCLOPS in this undated photograph on a Gale and Polden postcard

 

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