HMS Adventure (1904)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Adventure.

Adventure in dazzle camouflage during the First World War
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Adventure
Builder	Armstrong Whitworth, Elswick, Tyne and Wear
Laid down	7 January 1904
Launched	8 September 1904
Commissioned	October 1905
Decommissioned	12 August 1919
Fate	Sold for scrap, 3 March 1920
General characteristics
Class and type	Template:Sclass- scout cruiser
Displacement	2,670 long tons (2,713 t)
Length	374 ft (114.0 m) (p/p)
Beam	38 ft 3 in (11.7 m)
Draught	12 ft 5 in (3.8 m)
Installed power	16,000 ihp (12,000 kW) 12 Yarrow boilers
Propulsion	2 Shafts, 2 triple-expansion steam engines
Speed	25 knots (46 km/h; 29 mph)
Complement	289
Armament	10 × QF 12-pounder 18 cwt guns 8 × QF 3-pounder (47 mm) guns 2 × 18-inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes
Armour	Deck: 0.75–2 in (19.1–50.8 mm) Conning tower: 3 in (76 mm)

HMS Adventure was the name ship of her her class of scout cruiser built for the Royal Navy during the first decade of the 20th century. First World War.

Construction and career

She was by Armstrong Whitworth of Elswick, Tyne and Wear, being laid down on 7 January 1904 and launched on 8 September 1904. In April 1907 Adventure collided with, and sank, a fishing boat off the Sussex coast. She led the 1st torpedo boat destroyer Flotilla and was refitted at Chatham docks in June 1910. She then became flotilla leader for the 2nd Destroyer Flotilla based in Devonport. She underwent another refit in August 1912, and then joined the 3rd Light Cruiser squadron on maneuvers. In July 1913 Adventure joined the 6th destroyer flotilla based at Dover.

In May 1915 she joined the 6th Light Cruiser squadron on the Humber to patrol against Zeppelins raiding up the east coast. In July of that year became the flagship at Queenstown until November 1917. On Boxing Day in 1915 she distinguished herself by rescuing the crew of the stricken steamship Huronian. She escorted convoys to Gibraltar during the last summer of the war, then served in the Mediterranean and, in 1919, the Aegean. She returned to Immingham docks to be paid off on 12 August 1919. Her bad luck with collisions continued when she was rammed by a trawler on the Humber in January 1920. She was then sold to the breakers for scrap on 3 March 1920, and was towed by the fellow scout cruiser Skirmisher to Morecambe.

Bibliography

• Chesneau, Roger; Kolesnik, Eugene M., eds. (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. Greenwich: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |lastauthoramp= ignored (|name-list-style= suggested) (help)
• Corbett, Julian. Naval Operations to the Battle of the Falklands. History of the Great War: Based on Official Documents. Vol. I (2nd, reprint of the 1938 ed.). London and Nashville, Tennessee: Imperial War Museum and Battery Press. ISBN 0-89839-256-X.
• Friedman, Norman (2009). British Destroyers From Earliest Days to the Second World War. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1-59114-081-8.
• Gardiner, Robert; Gray, Randal, eds. (1984). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships: 1906–1921. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-85177-245-5. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |lastauthoramp= ignored (|name-list-style= suggested) (help)

External links

• Adventure class in World War I
• History of the Adventure class
• The Adventure class