| Built By: | Greenock & Grangemouth Dockyard |
| Build Group: | Astraea |
| Fate: | Scrapped 1920 |
| 1916: | Lieutenant Commander | Malcolm Kingsford de Monçy Burgess | |
| 1918: | Lieutenant Commander | Noel Frank Lawrence | |
| 1919: | Lieutenant Commander | Charles de Burgh | DSO |
| 1919: | Commander | Fitzroy Hamilton Dalrymple Byron |
Pennant Numbers
Astroea Class. She initially served with the Pacific Squadron and went on to play a minor role in the Third China War (the Boxer Rising) in 1900 under the command of Captain Robert A. Montgomerie
In April 1907, she completed a major overhaul at Haulbowline Dockyard to become a sea-going submarine depot ship. In this role, she acted as a mobile base, supply center, and floating barracks for early British submarine flotillas.
In mid-1913, she was in Harwich supporting the Sixth Submarine Flotilla and Seventh Submarine Flotilla but later went to the far east.
She actively supported Royal Navy submarines throughout the First World War. Following the end of the war, she paid off on October 17, 1919, and was sold for scrap to the Forth Ship Breaking Company.
Distribution of RN Submarines WW1
The British Fleet at the moment when war was declared possessed 72 submarine torpedo-boats built and 22 building. Some of these were, however, stationed at the oversea naval bases.
Roll of Honour |
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| Ward, Stanley |
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| Leading Stoker | ||||||
| Died of wounds in the Ingham Infirmary, South Shields, The full circumstances of his death are not known. |
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| Carr, John |
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| Leading Seaman | ||||||
| Understood to have taken ill and died | ||||||
| 02-12-1892 | Launched |
| 05-07-1894 | Commissioned |
| 15-10-1912 | Recommissioned at Portsmouth |
| 17-10-1919 | Paid off |
| 12-04-1920 | Sold to the Forth Ship Breaking Company, Bo'ness. |
Tempest (N 86) |
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| Class: | 1935 - 1970: T Class |
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| Build Group: | T 2 |
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Fate: Scuttled in the Gulf of Taranto on 13th February, 1942. The boat was detected, and there followed a seven-hour depth charge attack by the Italian torpedo boat Circe (Capitano di Corvetta Stephanino Palmas). Following an epic struggle, the submarine was forced to the surface in heavy seas. The Italians botched the rescue, and of the crew of sixty-three there were twenty-four survivors (twenty-three out of sixty-two, according to the coxswain). The remainder were lost |
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The design of the Type XXI U-Boat was a radical step in the history of submarine development; indeed, the vessel could be said to have been the prototype of the modern conventionally-powered submarine
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Tempest (N 86) |
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| Class: | 1935 - 1970: T Class |
| Built By: | |
| Build Group: | T 2 |
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Fate: Scuttled in the Gulf of Taranto on 13th February, 1942. The boat was detected, and there followed a seven-hour depth charge attack by the Italian torpedo boat Circe (Capitano di Corvetta Stephanino Palmas). Following an epic struggle, the submarine was forced to the surface in heavy seas. The Italians botched the rescue, and of the crew of sixty-three there were twenty-four survivors (twenty-three out of sixty-two, according to the coxswain). The remainder were lost |
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The design of the Type XXI U-Boat was a radical step in the history of submarine development; indeed, the vessel could be said to have been the prototype of the modern conventionally-powered submarine
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