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Sunday, 24 February 2019

Former British torpedo gunboat HMS Hazard served as submarine depot ship according to the magazine Mitteilungen aus dem Gebiete des Seewesens dated 1910 No. 7

An item reported that the British torpedo gunboat HMS Hazard at Sheerness, England was converted into a mother ship for submarines and added to the 4th Submarine flotilla at Portsmouth, England. She was now fitted out with water tube boilers.(1)

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1. Part of the Dryad-class, preceded by Alarm-class, laid down by Pembroke Dockyard, Deptford, England on 1 December 1892, launched on 14 February 1894, commissioned on 24 July 1895 and sunk in a collision with the SS Western Australia on 28 January 1918.