| Built By: | Taikoo Dockyard (Hong Kong) |
| Build Group: | Wuchang |
| Fate: | Returned to her owner in April 1946 |
A shallow river steamer requisitioned by the Royal Navy at Singapore in 1941.
While under conversion at Singapore she fled to Colombo and was commissioned there on 12 May 1942.
Returned to her owner in April 1946.
| 12-05-1942 | Submarine depot ship HMS Wuchang commissioned |
| Class: | Depot Ships |
| Built By: | Raylton Dixon NE (Tees) |
| Build Group: | Pandora |
| Fate: | |
| On 23 Nov 1939 she was mined and sunk off Blyth while in tow, was to be stripped for use as a blockship. | |
This witty and perceptive account of the early years of submarine development contains much new material and the lives of the forgotten pioneers of submarines.
It includes many wonderful inventions and even more colourful inventors, but focuses primarily on John Philip Holland, the Irish-American genius who took submarine development out of the hands of lunatics and visionaries and turned it into a deadly weapon of war
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| Class: | Depot Ships |
| Built By: | Raylton Dixon NE (Tees) |
| Build Group: | Pandora |
| Fate: | |
| On 23 Nov 1939 she was mined and sunk off Blyth while in tow, was to be stripped for use as a blockship. | |
This witty and perceptive account of the early years of submarine development contains much new material and the lives of the forgotten pioneers of submarines.
It includes many wonderful inventions and even more colourful inventors, but focuses primarily on John Philip Holland, the Irish-American genius who took submarine development out of the hands of lunatics and visionaries and turned it into a deadly weapon of war
14 pages added or updated in the last 1 month
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