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Topic: HMS Audacious (1912)

	HMS Audacious
		Vraket av HMS Audacious hviler idag på en dybde av 61 til 72 meter, og ble først besøkt av tekniske dykkere 9.
		The wreck of HMS Audacious rest today on a depth of 61 to 72 meters, and was first visited by technical divers 9.
		Soon, the loss of HMS Audacious was common knowledge to the entire world, and the continued insistence of the Royal Navy that the ship was still in service became a running joke that undermined the credibility of the British government on the world stage.
	www.skovheim.org /worldwide/uk-ireland/audacious/auda.html (776 words)

	The Probert Encyclopaedia - Weapons and Warfare (G-O)
		HMS Birmingham was a British light cruiser of the 'Chatham' class.
		Like HMS Courageous, HMS Glorious was completed in 1917 as a fast cruiser for use in the Great War in the Baltic, but by the 1920s with Britain wanting to increase her aircraft carrier strength she was converted to an aircraft carrier, as was HMS Courageous.
		HMS Wasp was a British steam gunboat, which was lost in September 1887 while on a passage from Singapore to Hong-Kong.
	www.fas.org /news/reference/probert/F4.HTM (15666 words)

	RMS Olympic, White Star Line
		She was escorted part way by british cruiser HMS Essex, and was met by cruiser HMS Drake off the Irish coast.
		Oct 27, she was alerted by wireless that the battleship HMS Audacious had struck a mine.
		Although the HMS Audacious was wallowing helplessly, with her stern awash, the Olympic attempted to take the Audacious in tow but the battleship could not be saved.
	www.julesverne.ca /olympic.html (1212 words)

	HMS Audacious (1912) - Free net encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		HMS Audacious was a King George V class battleship of the Royal Navy.
		At around 08:45 Audacious ran upon a mine laid by the German auxiliary mine-layer Berlin, resulting in the flooding of several compartments.
		Note that HMS Marlborough, of the subsequent (and fairly similar) Iron Duke class, was torpedoed at Jutland and for a time continued to steam at 17 knots.
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/HMS_Audacious_(1912) (332 words)

	Encyclopedia Titanica Message Board: HMS Audacious' Wreck
		HMS Audacious was a 24,000-ton battleship of the ‘King George V’ class, ranked third in terms of her tonnage and armament as a British warship.
		Olympic was one of the vessels assisting in the rescue of her crew and an attempted tow.
		One other thought struck me: according to an account I have used, Audacious initially steamed around in circles for a while after the explosion in an attempt to prevent her settling any further.
	www.encyclopedia-titanica.org /discus/messages/6937/10317.html?1015437106 (1291 words)

	MaritimeDigital Archive Encyclopedia - Home > 003d Surface vessels (1905-1919) > Battleships - Super Dreadnoughts > ...
		HMS Ajax was a King George V-class battleship (one of four ships of the class), built at Scotts' shipyard at Greenock on the River Clyde.
		HMS Centurion was the second battleship of the King George V class, built at HM Dockyard, Devonport.
		Centurion was attached upon completion to the 2nd Battle Squadron, led by sister-ship HMS King George V. She was present at the Battle of Jutland as part of the main body of Grand Fleet under the command of Captain Michael Culme-Seymour.
	www.ibiblio.org /maritime/Newspaper/index.php?cat=1066 (791 words)

	RMS Olympic: The Old Reliable
		On the 14th April 1912, the Titanic struck the iceberg and began to sink.
		The Olympic should have sailed on the 24th April 1912 but the trip was postponed, not because of a direct result of the Titanic disaster or the lifeboats, but because the crew refused to sail on a ship with collapsible lifeboats.
		However, the episode of the HMS Audacious was very tame compared to what was about to happen.
	www.geocities.com /titanicandco/olympic.html (2814 words)

	Cunard: The Most Famous Ocean Liners In The World
		Later that year, on 20 September, the Olympic was rammed by the cruiser HMS Hawke in the Solent which had attempted to pass astern and hit the Olympic abreast the mainmast, starboard side.
		In February 1912 it was overhauled at Belfast and a new propeller was fitted.
		In October it unsuccessfully attempted to tow the mined and sinking battleship HMS Audacious in to Loch Foyle.
	www.cunard.com /AboutCunard/?Active=Heritage&Sub=GetShip&ShipID=109 (596 words)

	Dreadnought Battleships
		HMS King George V, Ajax, Centurion, Audacious Laid down 1911.
		HMS Iron Duke, Marlborough, Benbow, Emperor of India Laid down 1912.
		HMS Queen Elizabeth, Warspite, Barham, Valiant, Malaya Laid down 1912-1913.
	worldwar1.co.uk /battlesh.htm (255 words)

	(( Shipwreck Central ))
		On the night of April 15th, 1912, Rostron had picked up the SOS call from Titanic and immediately rushed to her assistance.
		Carpathia's journey was fraught with challenge, for on the way, she and her valiant officers and crew, had to make their way through the same icebergs as the Titanic- and at full speed.
		"HMS Goliath", a Canopus class battleship was sunk by the skilled and audacious maneuverings of a Turkish torpedo boat, the Muavenet.
	www.shipwreckcentral.com /about6.htm (10583 words)

	Encyclopedia Titanica Message Board: What happened to Captain H. J. Haddock?
		Haddock took Olympic back to England on her last passenger run (which included the unsuccessful attempt to tow the mine-stricken HMS Audacious to a safe port) before the ship was converted for Admiralty service.
		In April 1912, Captain Haddock was in command of the White Star liner Olympic en route from New York to Southampton when her sister ship, the Titanic, westward bound, while making her maiden voyage, struck an iceberg and sank in one of the greatest ocean disasters.
		Haddock commanded Olympic from April 1912 until the beginning of World War I, and was Olympic's commander during her failed effort to rescue HMS Audacious in October 1914.
	www.encyclopedia-titanica.org /discus/messages/6937/7907.html?1014733823 (1490 words)

	Army and Navy Chaplains 1800 to
		Served as Chaplain to HMS Encounter 1907 to 1910, HMS Jupiter 1910 and 1911, HMS Prince George 1911 and 1912, HMS Zealandia 1912, HMS Prince of Wales 1912 and 1913.
		On HMS Pembroke 1900, HMS Prince George 1900 - 1901, HMS Implacable 1901 to 1904, HMS Boscawen III 1904 and 1905, R.M.Dept Walmer 1905 to 1907, HMS Prince of Wales 1907 to 1910, HMS Jupiter 1910 and 1911.
		Chancellor of St.Paul’s Anglican Cathedral, Valletta, 1910 to 1912
	website.lineone.net /~teresasliema/anchaplains.htm (5836 words)

	RMS Olympic - The Old Reliable
		On the 14th April 1912, the Titanic struck the iceberg and began to sink.
		The Olympic should have sailed on the 24th April 1912 but the trip was postponed, not because of a direct result of the Titanic disaster or the lifeboats, but because the crew refused to sail on a ship with collapsible lifeboats.
		However, the episode of the HMS Audacious was very tame compared to what was about to happen.
	www.titanicandco.com /olympic.html (2992 words)

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		HMS Thunderer was the last of the class to be laid down.
		HMS Thunderer was to be the last battleship built on the
		She was second of the class to be launched on February 1, 1911 and third to be completed in June 1912.
	www.steelnavy.com /CombrigThunderer.htm (4426 words)

	King George V Class Battleship - HMS King George V, Centurion, Audacious, Ajax
		HMS King George V. The mast is forward of the funnels, for good this time, and originally was a light pole rather than the more normal heavy tripod.
		This had to be reinforced with tripod legs as the number of fire control instruments such as directors were fitted to the ships.
		HMS King George V in 1912 with light pole mast fitted.
	www.worldwar1.co.uk /battleship/hms-king-george-v.html (303 words)

	Invasion 1915
		Not only was the fact that the Royal Navy had to be defeated, which to the Germans even in 1912 seemed impossible, but then there was the almost impossible mission to get a large army to actually land on British soil.
		Nonetheless, in 1912, regardless of the pros and cons, it was merely an academic debate.
		Audacious, on the other hand, had been sunk by a German mine off Lough Swilly.
	www.changingthetimes.net /samples/ww1/invasion_1915.htm (7763 words)

	Immigrant Ship Information
		On 20/9/1911 she collided with the British cruiser HMS HAWKE in the Solent, was held to blame for the collision and was repaired at Belfast.
		In May 1912 she grounded on a reef off the coast of Columbia, and the passengers were disembarked in the ship's lifeboats and had to wait several days in Cartagena before she could be towed off.
		In 1912 Houlder Bros. disposed of most of their interests in the Australian trade and the "Oswestry Grange" was sold to the Union Steamship Co of New Zealand and renamed "Roscommon" and was torpedoed and sunk by a U-boat on 21.8.1917 off Tory Island.
	www.fortunecity.com /littleitaly/amalfi/13/shipno.htm (16129 words)

	ME6- Posting of Countries [Archive] - Alternate History Discussion Board
		HMS Conqueror, now free from her duties at South Georgia, was ordered to begin patrols to the west of the Falklands.
		Thankfully HMS Engadine, the helicopter support ship, was able to take eight of the homeless Harriers, whilst four of the fleet support ships, those having large helicopter support facilities, took one of the remaining four Harriers each.
		On January 1, 1912, Sun was inaugurated in Nanjing as the provisional president of the new Chinese republic.
	www.alternatehistory.com /Discussion/archive/index.php/t-12432.html (20759 words)

	Maritime Prints - HMS KING GEORGE V LEAVING PORTSMOUTH, 1913
		There were 4 ships of the class, KGV, CENTURION, AUDACIOUS and AJAX; and together with ORION, CONQUEROR, MONARCH and THUNDERER they formed the 2nd BS.
		KGV- who despite her deceptively trim shape was, in fact, the largest of the dreadnoughts yet built - is seen here shaping a course down the channel that leads from Portsmouth Naval Base to the Solent and on to the wider reaches of the English Channel.
		In the background lies Nelson’s famous flagship, HMS VICTORY (Captain R G A W Stapleton-Cotton MVO RN), now, 1913, flagship of Commander-in-Chief Portsmouth, Admiral The Hon Sir Hedworth Meux GCB KCVO.
	www.maritimeprints.com /portfolio/?mp=4 (178 words)

	RMS Olympic
		On the 20th of September 1911, while on a return voyage from New York to South Hampton, the Olympic was rammed by the British Naval cruiser HMS Hawke.
		In February 1912, while on yet another return trip from New York to South Hampton, the Olympic broke a propeller blade, and returned to Belfast for repairs.
		In October of 1914, the Olympic tried to tow a wounded ship the HMS Audacious into Loch Foyle, this attept was unsuccessful.
	www.rmstitanicandhersisterships.20m.com /rmsolympic.html (624 words)

	RMS Olympic
		Later that year, on 20 September, the Olympic was rammed by the cruiser HMS Hawke in the Solent which had attempted to pass astern and hit the Olympic abreast the mainmast, starboard side.
		In February 1912 it was overhauled at Belfast and a new propeller was fitted.
		In October it unsuccessfully attempted to tow the mined and sinking battleship HMS Audacious in to Loch Foyle.
	www.ocean-liners.com /ships/olympic.asp (616 words)

	The Classic Liners of Long Ago - Olympic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In April 1912, while the Olympic was on the eastbound leg of one of her voyages, the Titanic disaster occurred.
		In this guise, she rescued the crew of and attempted to tow the HMS Audacious, which had struck a mine.
		The tow was unsuccessful, however, and the Audacious sank.
	ocean-liners.schuminweb.com /ships/olympic.asp (1034 words)

	THE HOLOCAUST - Timebase 1910-19
		1912 April Theodor Fritsch writes a set of guidelines for the Reichshammerbund which urges collaboration with Catholics and a coordinated propaganda campaign amongst workers, farmers, teachers, civil servants, military officers and university students.
		1912 October 4 Theodore Roosevelt is shot by an assassin in Milwaukee, but insists on giving his speech before being taken to the hospital.
		1912 November 5 Woodrow Wilson is elected President of the U.S., defeating the Republican incumbent, William Howard Taft, and Theodore Roosevelt who has split the Republican vote by running on the independent Bull Moose ticket.
	www.humanitas-international.org /holocaust/1910-19t.htm (20494 words)

	Aircraft Carrier List
		NAeL Minas Gerais formerly HMS Vengeance, purchased December 13, 1956, decommissioned 2001
		INS Viraat (1953) formerly HMS Hermes (R12), purchased April 19, 1986.
		INS Vikrant (1945) formerly HMS Hercules, purchased January, 1957, decommissioned 31 January 1997.
	www.battle-fleet.com /pw/his/List_of_aircraft_carriers.htm (870 words)

	www.freewebs.com/my18collection -
		It was just after noon on the twentieth of September, 1911, when Olympic left Southampton and proceeded down the Spithead Channel, the water between the British mainland and the Isle of Wight, on her way to the English Channel and Cherbourg, France to pick up her next load of passengers.
		Suddenly, the Edgar-class cruiser, HMS Hawke, of the British Royal Navy, was seen in the fog.
		The captain of this ship ordered her to help evacuate the crew of the battleship, HMS Audacious, which had struck a mine and was now sinking.
	www.freewebs.com /my18collection/19rmsolympic.htm (7992 words)

	Trenches on the Web - Timeline: 1905-1914 - The Dreadnought Race
		The British completion of the HMS Dreadnought on 1-Oct-1906, brought very unexpected results.
		HMS Dreadnought represented a true terror weapon of the day whose speed, armament, and firepower obsoleted every other battleship then in existence.
		Rather than give Britain's large navy an even bigger advantage over Germany's small coastal fleet, it put them on an almost equal footing overnight, really only one battleship ahead.
	www.worldwar1.com /tldread.htm (231 words)

	RMS Olympic, White Star Line
		She was escorted part way by british cruiser HMS Essex, and was met by cruiser HMS Drake off the Irish coast.
		Oct 27, she was alerted by wireless that the battleship HMS Audacious had struck a mine.
		Although the HMS Audacious was wallowing helplessly, with her stern awash, the Olympic attempted to take the Audacious in tow but the battleship could not be saved.
	julesverne.ca /olympic.html (1212 words)

	Royal Navy Battleships
		22 Jun 1893.HMS Victoria sunk by collision with HMS Camperdown.
		The Germans claim a tactical victory, but the battle is a strategic victory for the Royal Navy, which forced the High Seas Fleet had to retreat, and maintained their blockade of Germany.
		10 December 1941:HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse are sunk by Japanese torpedo bombers near Singapore.
	home.att.net /~wellsbrothers/Battleships/RNBBtable.html (1177 words)

	TGOL - Olympic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		As the Audacious began to sink deeper in the water, the decision to leave her until the next day was made in order to see if she was worthwhile saving.
		The same evening, the Olympic disembarked the Audacious’ crew, and continued her voyage to Belfast where she would be laid up.
		After the Hawke-collision in 1912, the Olympic had been spared from major accidents, but the second major one occurred as she moved out from her Pier 59 in New York on March 22, 1924.
	www.greatoceanliners.net /olympic.html (8637 words)

	Canadian Pacific Line
		Transatlantic passenger services commenced in 1903 when the fleet and North Atlantic interests of Elder Dempster & Co and their subsidiary Beaver Line were taken over and the following year, a regular service between Seattle and Victoria BC was inaugurated.
		The Bay of Funday route started in 1912 and in 1913 CPR and Allan Line started joint co-operation in victualling and stores depots and the two fleets eventually merged, but this was not formally announced until Jan. 1916.
		1903 taken over with Beaver Line, 1914 converted to dummy battleship HMS Audacious, 1916 transferred to Leyland Line and then sold to Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co renamed Crenella.
	www.theshipslist.com /ships/lines/cp.html (3171 words)

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