HMS Pegasus (1917)
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.jpg/300px-HMS_Pegasus_(1917).jpg) HMS Pegasus in dazzle camouflage |
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| Career |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | HMS Pegasus |
| Builder: | John Brown & Company, Clydebank |
| Laid down: | 1914 |
| Launched: | June 9, 1917 |
| Acquired: | August 1916 |
| Commissioned: | August 28, 1917 |
| Fate: | Sold for breaking up August 22, 1931 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 2540 tons gross |
| Length: | 332 ft (101 m) overall |
| Beam: | 43 ft (13 m) |
| Draught: | 15 ft (4.6 m) |
| Propulsion: | 2-shaft Brown-Curtis geared turbines; 9,500shp |
| Speed: | 21 knots |
| Complement: | 280 |
| Armament: | 2 x 3in (76mm) AA, 2 x 12pdr (76mm) AA |
| Aircraft carried: | 9 |
HMS Pegasus was a 3,300 ton displacement seaplane tender that was launched on June 9, 1917.
Originally laid down by John Brown & Company of Clydebank, Scotland as the mail steamer, SS Stockholm, for the Great Eastern Railway Company, HMS Pegasus was purchased by the Royal Navy on February 27, 1917. She commissioned on August 28, 1917 following alterations for naval warfare.
[edit] Design
HMS Pegasus carried both land planes and seaplanes, with land planes stowed in the forward hangar and seaplanes aft. A flying-off deck was located forward. During her career, she carried a variety of aircraft including the Beardmore W.B.III (1917), Fairey Campania, Sopwith Camel 2F.1 (1918), Fairey III (1919) and Short Type 184.
[edit] Career
HMS Pegasus joined the Grand Fleet on completion. In 1919, she operated in support of the British intervention in the Russian Civil War , based at Archangel, before transferring to the Mediterranean in March 1920, where she remained until 1923. In 1923, the forward flying-off deck was removed and HMS Pegasus was converted to an aircraft tender, capable of carrying up to 9 seaplanes. In 1925 she was decommissioned to reserve, but was recommissioned as an aircraft transport in 1929. On August 22, 1931 the ship was sold for scrap.
[edit] References
- Colledge, J. J. and Warlow, Ben (2006). Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy, Rev. ed., London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475.
- Dittmar, F. J. & Colledge, J. J., "British Warships 1914-1919", (Ian Allen, London, 1972), ISBN 0-7110-0380-7
- Gray, Randal (ed), "Conway's All The Worlds Fighting Ships, 1906-1921", (Conway Maritime Press, London, 1985), ISBN 0-85177-245-5
