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1892 - 1920: Bonaventure (F139)

Built By: Greenock & Grangemouth Dockyard
Fate: Scrapped 1920
Stern view of HMS Bonaventure anchored at Spithead 1909
Stern view of HMS Bonaventure anchored at Spithead 1909
Bonaventure as a Depot Ship with submarines alongside
Bonaventure as a Depot Ship with submarines alongside

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Pennant Numbers

  • N41 (1914)
  • N11 (Jan 1918)

Astroea Class, became a depot ship April, 1907.

In mid-1913, she was in Harwich supporting the Sixth Submarine Flotilla and Seventh Submarine Flotilla but later went to the far east.

Roll of Honour

Name Rank Number Hons Age
Carr, John  Leading Seaman     
Understood to have taken ill and he died 03/05/1917.
Ward, Stanley  Leading Stoker     
Died of wounds in the Ingham Infirmary, South Shields, 15-02-1917. The full circumstances of his death are not known.

Events

02-12-1892 : Launched
15-10-1912 : Recommissioned at Portsmouth
17-10-1919 : Paid off
12-04-1920 : Sold to the Forth Ship Breaking Company, Bo'ness.
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