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  Convoy HG 73 - September 1941
In the course of her duties with HG 73 her Fulmar aircraft was launched on 18 September and the enemy aircraft was attacked but escaped; when the aircraft arrived at Gibraltar it was discovered that faulty ammunition had caused all but one of the guns to jam.
HMS Jasmine went alongside to take off survivors and after unsuccessfully attempting to sink her with depth charges did so by shelling.
She was sunk on 25 April 1943 south of Cape Farewell by bombs from aircraft operating from the British escort carrier HMS Biter and depth charges from the destroyer HMS Pathfinder.
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 HMS Pathfinder. Who is HMS Pathfinder? What is HMS Pathfinder? Where is HMS Pathfinder? Definition of HMS Pathfinder. ...
The light cruiser HMS Pathfinder had the unhappy distinction of being the first ship ever to be sunk by a torpedo fired by submarine.
She was built by Cammell Laird, Birkenhead, launched on July 16, 1904 and commissioned on July 18, 1905.
Pathfinder was sunk off St. Abbs Head Berwickshire in Scotland on Saturday September 5, 1914 by the German U-21 submarine commanded by Leutnant zur See Otto Hersing.
www.knowledgerush.com /kr/encyclopedia/HMS_Pathfinder   (273 words)

  
 HMS Pathfinder (1904) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pathfinder was sunk off St. Abbs Head Berwickshire in Scotland on Saturday September 5, 1914 by the German U-21 commanded by Leutnant zur See Otto Hersing.
At the time, Pathfinder was the leader of the 8th Destroyer Flotilla based at the Rosyth, Scotland.
The ship was struck in a magazine, which exploded causing the ship to sink within a few minutes with the loss of 259 men.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Pathfinder_(1904)   (202 words)

  
 Light Cruisers - WW1 Naval Combat
HMS Royalist and her sisters had a mixed armament of 6in and 4in guns.
HMS Pathfinder, Patrol Laid down 1903, completed 1905.
HMS Chester was one of two light cruisers ordered for Greece but taken over by the British in 1915.
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 Favells in Uniform   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Launched in 1904, the Pathfinder displaced 2,940 tons, had a speed of 25 knots and was armed with nine inch guns.
In the first demonstration of the deadly potential of the German U boat, the light cruiser "Pathfinder" was torpedoed in the Firth of Forth on a calm sunlit day.
The Pathfinder was in full sight of the coast when the disaster occurred, and it happened that many people were watching her.
www.favells.freeserve.co.uk /Pathfinder.htm   (1084 words)

  
 MaritimeDigital Archive Encyclopedia - Home > 003c Surface vessels (1881-1904) > Battleships - Pre-Dreadnoughts > ...
HMS Swiftsure, launched 1903, was the lead ship of her class of pre-Dreadnought battleships.
The two ships had been built for the Chilean Navy as Libertad and Constitucion, but were bought by the Admiralty after fears that they would, upon delivery to the Chilean Navy, be sold on to Russia.
HMS Triumph was a Swiftsure-class pre-Dreadnought battleship of the Royal Navy.
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 HMS Pathfinder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Pathfinder, launched in 1904, was a light cruiser, the lead ship of her class.
She was sunk at the start of World War I by U-21, becoming the first ship to ever be sunk by a torpedo fired by submarine.
Pathfinder (G10), launched in 1941, was a P-class destroyer.
www.phatnav.com /wiki/index.php?title=HMS_Pathfinder   (187 words)

  
 Pathfinder Class
Pathfinder Class light cruisers built before World War I. Ships in the class were HMS Pathfinder and HMS Patrol.
HMS Pathfinder c.1912 before she was torpedoed by U.21 off the east coast of Scotland on 5th September 1914.
A reproduction of this original photo / photo-postcard size 10" x 7" approx available.
www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /pathfinder_class.htm   (326 words)

  
 shipartindex   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Gregory, George F. The USS Trenton and HMS Calliope during the storm in Apia Harbour.
HMS Calliope steaming out of Apia (Samoa) against a hurricane Monday 16th march 1889.
If you want to find out more information about the history and construction of the ships that you are researching you might like to look at some of the other Pathfinder Subject Guides.
www.anmm.gov.au /LIB/shipartindex.htm   (559 words)

  
 HMS Pathfinder - free-definition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
HMS Pathfinder was a light cruiser sunk at the start of the First World War, the first ship to ever be sunk by a torpedo fired by submarine.
HMS Pathfinder was a P Class Destroyer, penant G 19.
Built by Hawthorn Leslie and Co., launched on 10 April, 1941 ; commissioned on April 13, 1942.
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 Forgotten Futures V   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Sailors from HMS Pathfinder start to rescue civilans from the shore, but this ends when a grenade is thrown into one of her launches by a disguised anarchist.
HMS Pathfinder fires star shells at intervals during the night; at least one starts a fire when it lands.
Miraculously the crew of the airship survive and escape to the dockside, where they signal HMS Pathfinder and are picked up by her launch.
www.forgottenfutures.com /game/ff5/advent5.htm   (21270 words)

  
 Clevedon Civic Society Military History Records   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
He was the son of Dr and Mrs HM Boucher of St Rode, Walton.
Arthur Hack, formerly of Walton-in-Gordano was lost on board HMS Queen Mary at the Battle of Jutland.
Stoker Summerell served on HMS Rainbow, Esquimalt Canada, he was originally from Tickenham Hill, aged 34 and he died at Wells.
www.clevedon-civic-society.org.uk /worldwar1casualties.htm   (11250 words)

  
 July 5 - Today in Science History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Born 5 Jul 1904; died 3 Feb 2005.
British naval officer, hydrographer, and meteorologist who commanded the voyage of HMS Beagle, aboard which Charles Darwin sailed around the world as the ship's naturalist.
In 1996, Dolly, a cloned sheep, was born at the Roslin Institute, Edinburgh, Scotland.
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 Marine Listing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
When HMS V anguard was returning to Grand Harbour, he died in an accident in 5.2 inch gun turret.
Matthew BULL, Marine, HMS Phoebe, died 25th August 1803 from a thigh wound, in the General Military Hospital, Valletta.
While off Tunis the ship’s cutter with a party of officers and seamen on board capsized after being struck by a squall and all were drowned except for one seaman who managed to swim to the shore.
website.lineone.net /~stephaniebidmead/marine_listing.htm   (8899 words)

  
 Channel4.com - The First World War - text only
Live Bait Squadron : In the early weeks of the war, three elderly armoured cruisers - HMS Aboukir, HMS Hogue, HMS Cressy - were assigned to patrol an area off the Dutch coast known as the 'Broad Fourteens'.
Because they were old, slow and generally under-gunned, these vessels were jocularity described as the 'Live Bait Squadron', and some in the Admiralty expressed doubts over the wisdom of assigning such ships to this duty.
The loss of these vessels, and the sinking of HMS Pathfinder on 5 September, prompted Admiral Jellicoe to withdraw his most valuable ships to ports outwith the U-boats' range.
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 eBay.co.uk - warships, Postcards, Non-Fiction Books, Militaria items at low prices   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
HMS APOLLO (RN warship Naval Leander Class frigate)  
HMS FIFE (RN warship Naval County Class Destroyer)  
HMS FOAM (RN warship Naval USS Lend - Lease sweeper)  
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 0079p
A.J. AB, died 10th January 1941, on board the destroyer HMS Gallant, which was escorting a Convoy, when it struck a mine that shattered the ship’s bows.
F.W. Leading Stoker, died 10th January 1941, on board the destroyer HMS Gallant, which was escorting a Convoy, when it struck a mine that shattered the ship’s bows.
J.A., AB, died 10th January 1941, on board the destroyer HMS Gallant, which was escorting a Convoy, when it struck a mine that shattered the ship’s bows.
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 Royal Navy (RN) Officers 1939-1945  -  G
HMS Ark Royal (aircraft carrier) (Reserve Fleet, The Nore)
HMS Caledon (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, The Nore) (for destroyers in reserve)
HMS Cardiff (cruiser) (for emergency destroyers) (Reserve Fleet, The Nore)
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 Immigrant Ship Information
In 1901 she was hulked and was scrapped in 1904.
Later the same year she went back to the German flag and in 1904 was sold to Italy.
In 1904 her funnel was lengthened by 23 ft to improve draught and made this ship easily recognizable.
www.fortunecity.com /littleitaly/amalfi/13/shipp.htm   (16893 words)

  
 NOAA Photo Library
Launch, crew, and volcano framed by walls of sea cave.
HMS SATELLITE on left, USCS Steamer ACTIVE on right.
PATHFINDER Launch No. 1 returning with work party.
www.photolib.noaa.gov /brs/flind35.htm   (433 words)

  
 RootsWeb: Mariners-L Re: [Mariners] Loss of ABOUKIR 1914
HMS ABOUKIR (1898), "Cressy" class Armoured Cruiser (6 ships).
the cruiser HMS PATHFINDER (1904), on patrol off Scotland, in the Firth of
The first British Warship casualty of the war was the cruiser HMS AMPHION
archiver.rootsweb.com /th/read/Mariners/1999-08/0934304178   (541 words)

  
 Favells in Uniform   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
FAVELL: In the Red Cross Hospital at Frome, Somerset, on March 14th, Gunner Charles Favell, Royal Field Artillery, son of Mr Charles Favell of Alconbury Weston, from influenza and pneumonia, aged 28 years.
Ernest Torre Favell - Lieutenant Commander HMS "Pathfinder", Royal Navy died on Saturday, 5
Ernest is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial overlooking the town of Chatham in Kent.
www.favells.freeserve.co.uk /WW1service.htm   (1947 words)

  
 HMS Pathfinder   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Type: Light Cruiser ; Armament 9 x 4 in.
Launched : 1904 ; Disposal date or year : 5 Sep 1914
Disposal Details : Torpedoed by German Submarine U 21, off St. Abb's Head, East Coast of Scotland
www.pbenyon.plus.com /18-1900/P/03403.html   (38 words)

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