HMS Riviera

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Career (United Kingdom)

Name:	SS Riviera (1911-14) HMS Riviera (1914-20) SS Riviera (1920-32) SS Laird's Isle (1932-57)
Port of registry:	London (1911-14) Royal Navy (1914-20) London (1920-32) Glasgow (1932-57)
Builder:	William Denny and Brothers Dumbarton
Laid down:	1910
Launched:	1 April 1911
Acquired:	11 August 1914
Decommissioned:	21 May 1919
Fate:	Returned to civilian service 1919
General characteristics (as of 1918)
Type:	Seaplane carrier
Tonnage:	1,675 gross register tons (GRT)
Displacement:	2,550 long tons (2,590 t) (deep load)
Length:	323 ft (98.5 m)
Beam:	41 ft (12.5 m)
Draught:	13 ft 8 in (4.2 m)
Installed power:	11,000 shp (8,200 kW) 6 water-tube boilers
Propulsion:	3 shafts 3 steam turbines
Speed:	20.5 knots (38.0 km/h; 23.6 mph)
Range:	1,250 nmi (2,320 km; 1,440 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement:	197
Armament:	4 × 12-pounder 12 cwt guns 2 × QF 3-pounder anti-aircraft guns
Aircraft carried:	4 × seaplanes

HMS Riviera was built as a fast Cross-Channel steamer for the South East and Chatham Railway Co. The ship was requisitioned by the Admiralty on 11 August 1914 and converted by Chatham Dockyard to operate four seaplanes.

Based at Harwich along with HMS Engadine and Empress, aircraft from all three ships took part in the Cuxhaven Raid on hangars housing Zeppelin airships on Christmas Day 1914. A notable member of her crew was Robert Erskine Childers whose knowledge of the west German coast was considered very important in the raid. HMS Riviera later saw service in the Dover Patrol, prior to moving to the Mediterranean in June 1918.

In 1919 the ship returned to civilian use under her original name of RTMS Lairds Isle. She once again entered military service on 28 August 1939 as HMS Laird's Isle, an Armed Boarding Vessel and carried landing craft and tanks on D-Day.

She returned to civil use again in 1946.

References

Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.
Barnes, Christopher H. & James, Derek N. (1989). Shorts Aircraft Since 1900. London: Putnam. ISBN 0-85177-819-4.
Friedman, Norman (1988). British Carrier Aviation: The Evolution of the Ships and Their Aircraft. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-054-8.
Hobbs, David (2013). British Aircraft Carriers: Design, Development and Service Histories. Barnsley, UK: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-138-0.
Layman, R. D. (1989). Before the Aircraft Carrier: The Development of Aviation Vessels 1859–1922. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-210-9.

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South Eastern and Chatham Railway ships	Biarritz Canterbury Empress Engadine Gannet Invicta Maid of Orleans Onward Riviera The Queen Victoria

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