When you are ready to add this item to your basket, click the button below.       Our Price: £ 12.50       View Ship Profile Page For : HMS Vulcan		HM Torpedo-Boat Depot Ship Vulcan : Hoisting Out a Torpedo Boat. ANV02062. HM Torpedo-Boat Depot Ship Vulcan : Hoisting Out a Torpedo Boat. Vulcan hoisting out one of six torpedo boats the she carried. The Vulcan was the only ship in the British Navy in 1896 with special cranes to do this. The cranes were hydraulic a PLEASE NOTE : This item is a digital image that will be delivered by email for you to print. It is not a physical photograph. HALF PRICE ! Our Price: £ 12.50   All Editions Available :

HMS Vulcan - Depot Ship

Country : UK
Launched : 13th June 1889

HMS VULCAN, a torpedo boat depot ship, was built in Portsmouth Dockyard, launched on 13th June 1889. She was designed to launch torpedo boats against enemy shipping. She became a depot ship for submarines in 1909, serving as mother-ship to a flotilla of submarines, and providing them with a base where they and their crews could rest between exercises. In 1931 she ceased this task and became a training ship for naval torpedo and electrical personnel in Torpoint, Cornwall with the name HMS DEFIANCE III. A Belgian scrapyard broke her up in December 1955.

Renamed Defiance III, 1931.