Thank you all so much for your help. So the pictures you have all put on here are all of the same ship, it is the one that my relative served on in WW1 and it was a submarine depot ship? (sorry, just want to get this right ). Does anyone know how I can find out any information about him/ if he came home?
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Thanks Polly
Thank you - I told you I was confused!Yes this is the one your relative served on but it is a "Mersey Class Cruiser" not a submarine depot ship.
Yes this is the one your relative served on but it is a "Mersey Class Cruiser" not a submarine depot ship.
I'm glad I'm not the only one. This is why I kept getting confused when trying to research it by myself. Different sites said different things and gave different pictures and as I have NO knowledge of Ships, I couldn't work it out :confused2:Now I'm confused, the third photo clearly shows Boats tied up alongside.
Polly,
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so that is why it is so confusing - it is the same ship but it looks different in some photos and sometimes is called a mersey class cruiser and sometimes a submarine depot ship because it was changed. So are all the previous photos the ww1 hms forth apart from the one you just posted?
Thank you for all the time you have spent working this out for me.
Polly
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