The HMAS "Platypus" was ordered to support which submarine that ended up getting lost at sea in 1914?
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HMAS Platypus (1917) HMAS "Platypus" was a submarine depot ship and base ship operated by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) between 1919 and 1946. Ordered prior to World War I to support the Australian submarines "AE1" and "AE2", "Platypus" was not completed until after both submarines had been lost, and she was commissioned into the Royal Navy from 1917 to 1919.
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HMAS AE1 HMAS "AE1 (originally known as just AE1") was an "E"-class submarine of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). She was the first submarine to serve in the RAN, and was lost at sea with all hands near East New Britain, Papua New Guinea, on 14 September 1914, after less than seven months in service. The wreck of the submarine has never been found, despite several searches.
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HMS Falmouth (1910) HMS "Falmouth" was a Town-class light cruiser built for the Royal Navy during the 1910s. She was one of four ships of the "Weymouth" sub-class. The ship was initially assigned to the Atlantic Fleet upon completion in 1911, but was reduced to reserve in mid-1913. When the First World War began in 1914, "Falmouth" was transferred to the 1st Light Cruiser Squadron (LCS) of the Grand Fleet and then the 3rd Light Cruiser Squadron at the end of the year. The ship participated in most of the early fleet actions, including the Battles of Heligoland Bight, Dogger Bank, and Jutland, but was only seriously engaged in the latter. She was torpedoed and sunk off Flamborough Head, Yorkshire by German submarines during the Action of 19 August 1916.
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HMS H11 HMS "H11" was a British "H"-class submarine built by Fore River Yard, Quincy, Massachusetts. She was laid down on an unknown date and was commissioned in 1915. "H11" along with HMS "H12" to HMS "H20" were all built in America but were interned by the United States government until the United States entered World War I. "H11" was sold on 20 October 1920 in Dover and lost on tow to the breaker's yard. The wreck was identified 2007.
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SM UC-19 SM "UC-19" was a German Type UC II minelaying submarine or U-boat in the German Imperial Navy (German: "Kaiserliche Marine" ) during World War I. The U-boat was ordered on 26 August 1915 and was launched on 15 March 1916. She was commissioned into the German Imperial Navy on 21 August 1916 as SM "UC-19". In three patrols "UC-19" was credited with sinking four ships, either by torpedo or by mines laid. "UC-19" was sunk by depth charges from HMS "Ariel" in the English Channel on 6 December 1916.
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HMS E18 HMS "E18" was an E-class submarine of the Royal Navy, launched in 1915 and lost in the Baltic Sea in May 1916 while operating out of Reval. The exact circumstances surrounding the sinking remain a mystery. The wreck of the submarine was discovered in October 2009.
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HMS G14 HMS "G14" was a British G-class submarine built for the Royal Navy during World War I.
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HMS K5 HMS "K5" was one of the K-class submarines that served in the Royal Navy from 1917-1921. She was lost with all hands when she sank en route to a mock battle in the Bay of Biscay.
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HMS Comet (1910) HMS "Comet" was an "Acorn class" destroyer of the Royal Navy that saw active service in the First World War. She was built under the 1909–1910 programme by Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Company in Govan. She was launched on 23 June 1910 and lost after a collision while under tow on 6 August 1918 in the Mediterranean. Initially it was believed that she was torpedoed and sunk by an Austro-Hungarian U-boat, but this was dismissed since no submarine claimed her sinking.
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SM U-14 (Austria-Hungary) SM "U-14 or U-XIV" was a U-boat or submarine of the Austro-Hungarian Navy during the First World War. She was launched in 1912 as the French "Brumaire"-class submarine "Curie" (Q 87), but captured and rebuilt for service in the Austro-Hungarian Navy. At war's end, the submarine was returned to France and restored to her former name.
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Mackensen-class battlecruiser The "Mackensen" class was the last class of battlecruisers to be built by Germany in World War I. The design initially called for seven ships, but three of them were redesigned as the "Ersatz Yorck" class . Of the four ships of the "Mackensen" class, "Mackensen", "Graf Spee", and "Prinz Eitel Friedrich" were launched, and "Fürst Bismarck" was not—but none were completed, after wartime shipbuilding priorities were redirected towards U-boat—and the ships were broken up in the early 1920s. The lead ship of the class was named for August von Mackensen, a prominent military commander during the war. In response to the "Mackensen"-class ships, the British Royal Navy laid down the Admiral-class battlecruiser s, all but one of which would eventually be cancelled; the sole survivor, HMS "Hood" , was completed after the end of the war.
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SM UB-4 Seiner Majestät "UB-4" was a German Type UB I submarine (U-boat) in the German Imperial Navy (German: "Kaiserliche Marine" ) during World War I. She was sunk by a British Q-ship disguised as a fishing smack in August 1915.
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Battle of Zanzibar The Battle of Zanzibar took place between the German "Kaiserliche Marine" and the British Royal Navy early in the First World War of 1914-1918. The German cruiser SMS "Königsberg" , while taking on coal in the delta of the Rufiji River (German East Africa), learned that a British cruiser—HMS "Pegasus" , which had been part of the Royal Navy's Cape Squadron sent to counter "Königsberg"—had put in at Zanzibar for repairs. "Königsberg"′s captain—Commander Max Looff—decided to attack "Pegasus" while she was in port.
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USS Gypsum Queen (SP-430) USS "Gypsum Queen" (SP-430) was a tugboat acquired by the United States Navy during World War I. She was assigned to the French coast as a minesweeper, as well as a tugboat to provide assistance to disabled Allied ships. Performing this dangerous work, "Gypsum Queen" struck a rock near Brest, France, and sunk, sending 15 crew members to their deaths.
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HMS Opal (1915) HMS "Opal" was an Admiralty M-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She served in the First World War following her construction at Sunderland in 1915. Attached to the 12th Destroyer Flotilla based with the Grand Fleet at Scapa Flow, "Opal" had an eventful short life, which ended in shipwreck after two and a half years of service.
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HMS Ophelia (1915) HMS "Ophelia" was an Admiralty M-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy during the First World War, entering service in 1916. The ship served at the Battle of Jutland on 31 May/1 June 1916, and sank a German submarine in 1918. She was sold for scrap in 1921.
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Prince Charles (Q ship) HMS "Prince Charles " was a 274 Tonne collier converted to a Q-Ship of the Royal Navy during World War I. In the afternoon of 24 July 1915 off North Rona in the Outer Hebrides, "Prince Charles ", commanded by Lieutenant William Penrose Mark-Wardlaw, sank the German submarine SM U-36. The sinking was the first by a Q-Ship working alone without the assistance of a British submarine.
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HMS H2 HMS "H2" was a British H-class submarine built by Canadian Vickers, Montreal. She was laid down on 11 January 1915 and was commissioned on 4 June 1915. After commissioning, "H2" crossed the Atlantic from St. John's, Newfoundland to Gibraltar escorted by the armed merchant cruiser HMS "Calgarian" . She was accompanied by "H1" , "H3" and "H4" . "H2" was sold in Malta on 7 March 1921.
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HMS L11 HMS "L11" was a L-class submarine built for the Royal Navy during World War I. She was one of five boats in the class to be fitted as a minelayer. The boat survived the war and was sold for scrap in 1932.
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SM UC-6 SM "UC-6" was a German Type UC I minelayer submarine or U-boat in the German Imperial Navy (German: "Kaiserliche Marine" ) during World War I. The U-boat had been ordered by November 1914 and was launched on 20 June 1915. She was commissioned into the German Imperial Navy on 24 June 1915 as SM "UC-6". Mines laid by "UC-6" in her 89 patrols were credited with sinking 54 ships.
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Russian cruiser Pallada (1906) Pallada (Russian: Паллада) was the last of the four "Bayan"-class armored cruisers built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. She was assigned to the Baltic Fleet during World War I where she captured codebooks from the German cruiser "Magdeburg" that had run aground during the first month of the war. The ship was torpedoed by a German submarine in October 1914 and exploded; none of the crew survived. "Pallada" was the first warship lost by the Russians during the war.
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HMS Falcon (1899) HMS "Falcon" was a Fairfield three funnel, 30 knot destroyer ordered by the Royal Navy under the 1898 – 1899 Naval Estimates. She spent her life in Home waters, was part of the Dover Patrol during World War I and was lost in a collision on 1 April 1918.