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Topic: Can you identify this ship? (Read 362 times)
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mumof1
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Does anyone have any ideas about what this ship name is? My husband's Great Grandfather served on this ship during WW1 and I'm trying to find out the name so I can search for the logs on the National Archives website. It looks like "Atdeon" but nothing comes up when I search on that. I've been to www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk and searched the lists of ships names and nothing is jumping out at me.
The ship in question is the one listed between "Pembroke II"
Cheers,
Alison
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Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.ukBAKER, TILLETT, SMITH, THEOBALD, ANDREWS, NAUNTON, UNDERWOOD - Suffolk LISH, HARMAN, HARLAND, LELLIOTT, WOOLGAR, WOOLVEN, FAIRS - Sussex McGEE/MAGEE, LISH, WITHERS, PITMAN - London WITHERS - London, Gloucestershire PITMAN - London, Kent ATTRILL, BOURNE - Isle of Wight CADWALLADER - Wales KNIGHT - Northamptonshire O'LEARY - Ireland BEGGS, BANDEAN, BROWN, SCOTT, DEWAR, RICHARDSON, RAMSAY - Scotland |
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liverpool annie
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Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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I think - HMS Actaeon was a shore establishment in WW1!
Annie 
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Wendi
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Hi Annie you bet me to it  I was just gona say to Alison
Hey Welcome to Rootschat
Have you got a picture of him in uniform to post 'cos sometimes that's also a great help and if on the Armed Forces part you give out his details, well you never know.
Wendi
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"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it! No matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and with your own common sense" ~ Buddha SCOTT ~ Monmouthshire & Glamorgan BUCKLEY ~ Cork & Manchester FRANKLIN ~ Clerkenwell, London BRADY ~ Kildare & Manchester DERICK ~ France FRIEND ~ Kent & Portsmouth TYLDESLEY ~ Lancashire http://www.themanchesters.org________________________________________ Census information posted here is Crown Copyright, from www.nati |
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Kevwood
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This looks promising
http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowShip.php?id=1008
Kev.
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manmack
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hms acteon was the torpedo school at sheerness in scotland,so he must be a submariner or hes going to serve on destroyers mack
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military history,mainly ww1,manchester pals battalions,tyneside irish +tyneside scottish brigades,leeds,liverpool,accrington,birmingham,hull,barnsley,swansea and salford pals.
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Wendi
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If as manmack says he may have been a submariner it may be worth mailing archives@rnsubmus.co.uk which is the archivist for the submarine museum in Gosport they are hot on anything to do with WW1 submarines maybe they can give you some idea where to go to investigate the men 
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"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it! No matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and with your own common sense" ~ Buddha SCOTT ~ Monmouthshire & Glamorgan BUCKLEY ~ Cork & Manchester FRANKLIN ~ Clerkenwell, London BRADY ~ Kildare & Manchester DERICK ~ France FRIEND ~ Kent & Portsmouth TYLDESLEY ~ Lancashire http://www.themanchesters.org________________________________________ Census information posted here is Crown Copyright, from www.nati |
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mumof1
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Thank you everyone for your suggestions. It does look like 'Actaeon'. The period in question is 1916 to 1917 so it's not the 'Actaeon' commissioned in 1943 or so. It appears to be the one that later became something to do with the torpedo school at Sheerness. I don't believe he served on any submarines. The ships he served on after his time on the 'Actaeon' were:
Pembroke II
Titania
Agamemnon
Pembroke II
Royal Sovereign
Pembroke II
Royal Sovereign
Pembroke II
Marlborough
Alison
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Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.ukBAKER, TILLETT, SMITH, THEOBALD, ANDREWS, NAUNTON, UNDERWOOD - Suffolk LISH, HARMAN, HARLAND, LELLIOTT, WOOLGAR, WOOLVEN, FAIRS - Sussex McGEE/MAGEE, LISH, WITHERS, PITMAN - London WITHERS - London, Gloucestershire PITMAN - London, Kent ATTRILL, BOURNE - Isle of Wight CADWALLADER - Wales KNIGHT - Northamptonshire O'LEARY - Ireland BEGGS, BANDEAN, BROWN, SCOTT, DEWAR, RICHARDSON, RAMSAY - Scotland |
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manmack
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alison,your g/father may have been involved in rescuing the russian royal family,here goes
hms pembroke,shore base establishment,then served on hms titania,she was a submarine depot ship,then to the agamemnon,she was a lord nelson class battleship,then back to hms pembroke,then to the royal sovereign[battleship],thenback to hms pembroke,then back to the royal sovereign,back again to hms pembroke and then finally to hms marlborough,hms marlborough saved part of the russian royal family from yalta,go on google and type in the ship,you will get the full story and pictures,mack
ps have a nice day googling
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military history,mainly ww1,manchester pals battalions,tyneside irish +tyneside scottish brigades,leeds,liverpool,accrington,birmingham,hull,barnsley,swansea and salford pals.
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