The news was transmitted by the local police at 10:46 am to a coastguard war signal station and reached the Admiralty at 11:35 am. Ordered under the 1910–1911 Naval Estimates, Audacious was the third ship of her name to serve in the Royal Navy. For the rest of the war, On 14 November 1918, shortly after the war ended, a notice officially announcing the loss appeared in A Royal Navy review board judged that a contributory factor in the loss was that Brown, pp. 157–158; Jellicoe, p. 149 The Sinking of HMS Audacious 27 October 1914 In mid October 1914 the Germans decided to take advantage of a period of dark nights to mine the Grand Fleet’s bases. Operations on the Belgian coast were at a crisis point, and it was possible that the German fleet might attack British warships supporting land forces. The ship was laid down by Cammell Laird at their shipyard in Birkenhead on 23 March 1911 and launched on 14 September 1912. Several years earlier, in 1906, the HMS … 160–161; Goldrick, p. 157; Jellicoe, p. 148Brown, p. 161; Goldrick, p. 157; Jellicoe, pp. In mid October 1914 the Germans decided to take advantage of a period of dark nights to mine the Grand Fleet’s bases.
American passengers on board the Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Repeated reports of submarines in Scapa Flow led Jellicoe to conclude that the defences there were inadequate and he ordered that the Grand Fleet be dispersed to other bases until the defences were reinforced.

Before entering into Total War, a slew of other vessels arrived to strengthen British firepower at sea and this included HMS Audacious. HMS Audacious was a King George V class Super-Dreadnought Battleship, measuring 596ft in length, grossed 23.000 tons and had a crew of 900. Her time of arrival is unknown, but was probably just after 10 am, since she was capable of 8 knots and had a 60 mile journey.

The HMS Audacious was laid down in 1911, launched in 1912, commissioned to the 2 nd battle squadron in 1913, and on October 27 th, 1914, was sent out for gunnery exercises in preparations to meet the Imperial German Navy in the great war. However, bad weather made commerce raiding impossible because boats could not be lowered in order to inspect merchant ships.The trawler then made for Carnlough on the north east coast of Ireland to report the sinking. All four sisters represented the Royal Navy during the celebrations of the re-opening of the Kaiser Wilhelm Canalin Ge… The minelayer SMS Pfundheller had been ordered to raid the Iceland fishing fleets, but the weather was too bad for them to be at sea, so he headed north to carry out his third task, the raiding of trade between Archangel and Britain. This supremacy on the water continued into World War 1 (1914-1918) as the service remained one of the more potent fighting forces on the planet. However, Admiral Sir Jellicoe sent all available destroyers and tugs, the collier TAt 2 pm, the destroyer HMS Fury, captained by Lieutenant-Commander Charles Sumner, managed to take a low line from Jellicoe requested that the loss be kept quiet because of the poor military situation. 149–150Brown, p. 161; Goldrick, pp. Post was not sent - check your email addresses!

On 27 October 1914 Vice Admiral Warrender took the Second Battle Squadron, consisting of the "super-dreadnoughts" Centurion (flagship), Ajax, Audacious, King George V, Orion, Monarch and Thunderer, out of port on a gunnery exercise. The minelayer SMS Nautilius , accompanied by the light cruiser SMS Kolberg , left port on 16 October, followed the next day by SMS Berlin , a 17,000 ton Norddeutscher Lloyd line converted into a minelayer. The Cabinet was more concerned with the impact on the Ottoman Empire, which the Allies still hoped to keep neutral.It was accepted that the news could be kept quiet for only a week to 10 days. On 16 October, the 2nd Battle Squadron was sent to The explosion occurred 16 feet (4.9 m) under the bottom of the ship, approximately 10 feet (3 m) forward of the transverse The ship could make 9 knots (17 km/h; 10 mph) and Dampier believed that he had a chance of making the 25 miles (40 km) to land and Jellicoe immediately proposed that the sinking be kept a secret, to which the Board of Admiralty and the British Cabinet agreed, an act open to ridicule later on. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.
She was completed in August 1913 at a cost of £1,918,813, but was not commissioned until 15 October, joining her sister ships in the 2nd Battle Squadron. Armoury included ten 13.5 inch guns, sixteen 4 inch guns, three 21 inch torpedo tubes.