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C 35 (I 65)

Built By: Vickers (Barrow)
Build Group: C2
Fate: Deliberately scuttled in the Baltic off Helsingfors to prevent their capture by the German Army. The Care and Maintenance Party (under Lieutenant Downie) who carried out the scuttling also destroyed all of the stores and torpedoes of the Baltic Flotilla before returning home safely via Petrograd & Archangel.

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Commanders
1916: Lieutenant   Leslie Haliburton Ashmore
1916: Lieutenant   E Stanley

1914: 4th Flotilla Portsmouth, HMS Arrogant and Hazard
1915: Baltic Flotilla. Divina, Revel (Tallin), Estonia.
1916: Baltic Flotilla. Divina, Revel (Tallin), Estonia.
1917: Baltic Flotilla. Divina, Revel (Tallin), Estonia.
1917: Baltic Flotilla. Pamyat Azova, Helsingfors, Finland

This boat, along with three other C Class, was sent to the Baltic to reinforce the E Class boats which were operating there.

They were towed to Archangel and then made their way down the White Sea Canal on lighters to Kronstadt, where they carried out short patrols in the Gulf of Riga.

Events

 03-03-1909   Laid Down
 02-11-1909   Launched
 01-02-1910   Completed
 04-04-1918   Deliberately scuttled in the Baltic off Helsingfors to prevent their capture by the German Army. The Care and Maintenance Party (under Lieutenant Downie) who carried out the scuttling also destroyed all of the stores and torpedoes of the Baltic Flotilla before returning home safely via Petrograd & Archangel.
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