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HMS Vulcan Laid Down : Launched : 13th June 1889 Completed : Type : Depot Ship Class : Builder : Portsmouth Country : UK Pennants : Fate : Renamed Defiance III, 1931. Later became : HMS Defiance III |
HMS VULCAN, a torpedo boat depot ship, was built in Portsmouth Dockyard, launched on 13th June 1889. She was designed to launch torpedo boats against enemy shipping. She became a depot ship for submarines in 1909, serving as mother-ship to a flotilla of submarines, and providing them with a base where they and their crews could rest between exercises. In 1931 she ceased this task and became a training ship for naval torpedo and electrical personnel in Torpoint, Cornwall with the name HMS DEFIANCE III. A Belgian scrapyard broke her up in December 1955. |
From ‘The Graphic’, June 22nd, 1889 This new torpedo depot ship, which was launched last week at Chatham, it officially described as a swift protected cruiser, equipped with all the requisite appliances for lifting and carrying a number of the largest torpedo boats of the second class. Such a vessel has now become an absolute necessity, considering the manner in which these little craft are knocked about in stormy weather, and their inability to steam long distances. In addition the Vulcan will be fitted with a laboratory and factory, or workshop, for the purpose of repairing torpedoes and torpedo boats and their machinery, and will contain all the gear necessary for submarine mining operations on a large scale, besides serving as a practice and training-ship for all sorts of mining and torpedo work. She will also carry a large quantity of electric cables. Hydraulic cranes will lift the torpedo boats in and out of the Vulcan, which is well protected in all vital parts by a strongly-plated deck below the waterline and a double-bottom well subdivided into watertight compartments—there being also an underwater ram of a very formidable character. The armament will consist exclusively of quick-firing and machine-guns; torpedo tubes will be provided, firing fore and aft, and perhaps from the broadside, while nine second-class torpedo boats will be carried. The engines are to work up to 12,000 hp, and to attain a speed of 20 knots. Thus the various features enumerated, as a writer in The Times remarks, will show that the Vulcan bids fair to prove an invaluable auxiliary to a fleet. Her speed being at least as great as that of any large vessel yet afloat, and hardly less than that attained by the quickest torpedo-craft, she will be able to accept or decline an action, while the power and rapid fire of her armament will justify her in engaging any enemy short of a battleship. The Vulcan is of nearly 7,000 tons, and the total estimate of cost £283,955, exclusive of guns, which are expected to cost £8,152. Various high officials, including Sir J.E. Commerell, Commander-in-Chief, and Admiral Gordon, Superintendent of the yard, attended the ceremony of the launch. A religious service having been performed by the Reverend C.J. Corfe, Dockyard Chaplain, Mrs. Gordon gave the name to the vessel, and, the lanyards supporting the dogshores having been cut away, the immense structure glided into the water amid loud cheering, and the strains of ‘Rule Britannia’ from the band of the Royal Artillery. |
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HM Torpedo-Boat Depot Ship Vulcan : Hoisting Out a Torpedo Boat. | The Captain of the Vulcan and His Officers 1896. |
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