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Wednesday, 20 March 2013

HMS Triumph would be converted into a floating depot according to the Dutch magazine Marineblad dated 1901-1902 no. 5


An item referred to the magazine Mitth. reporting that the British battleship 2nd class Triumph was to be converted into a floating depot for the western flotilla of destroyers and would be berthed at Hamoage, Devonport.(1)

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1. The broadside ironclad of the Swiftsure-class laid down at the shipyard of Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company, Jarrow on 31 August 1868, launched on 26 September two years later, completed on 8 April 1873, after 1900 disarmed to be used as a depot ship at Plymouth, renamed as training ship for boy artificers at Chatham Tenedos in 1903, Indus IV in 1910 and Algiers in 1914 and finally sold to be broken up in November 1921.