HMS Bonaventure (1892)
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Name | HMS Bonaventure |
Builder | Devonport Dockyard |
Laid down | December 1890 |
Launched | 2 December 1892 |
Commissioned | 5 July 1894 |
Fate | Sold on 12 April 1920 |
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Class and type | Astraea-class cruiser |
Displacement | 4,360 tons |
Length | 320 ft (98 m) (p/p) |
Beam | 49.5 ft (15.1 m) |
Draught | 21 ft 6 in (6.55 m) |
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Range | Carried 1000 tons coal (max) |
Complement | 318 |
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HMS Bonaventure was an Astraea-class second class cruiser of the Royal Navy, ordered as part of the eight-ship Astraea class under the Naval Defence Act of 1889. She was commissioned for service in 1895, and survived to serve in the First World War.
History[edit]
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Bonaventure served in the Pacific Squadron, including service in the 3rd China War, under command of Captain Robert Montgomerie RN.[1]
She returned in May 1906 to Devonport to be paid off. She then went to Haulbowline Dockyard, Cork, Ireland to be converted into a depot ship for submarines.
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This work was completed in April 1907 and she continued to serve during the First World War as a submarine depot ship.[2]
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Scrapping[edit]
Bonaventure returned to the UK and was paid off on 17 October 1919. She was sold on 12 April 1920 to the Forth Ship Breaking Company, Bo'ness.
References[edit]
- ^ Robert Archibald Montgomerie Service record, The National Archives, ADM 196/19
- ^ "HMS Bonaventure". battleships-cruisers.co.uk. Retrieved 1 May 2017.
External links[edit]
Media related to HMS Bonaventure (ship, 1892) at Wikimedia Commons
Publications[edit]
- Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
- Jane's Fighting Ships of World War One. Jane's Publishing Company. 1919.