HMS Dolphin (1882)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Dolphin.

HMS Dolphin was a screw sloop ship of the Royal Navy launched in 1882. In 1884 she was under the command of Sydney Eardley-Wilmot in the Mediterranean where she took part in military operations in eastern Sudan in 1884-85.[1] She served as a submarine depot ship in World War I. She foundered in 1925 but was beached and used as a school ship. She was broken up in 1977.

References

  1. ↑ "Rear-Admiral Sir S. Eardley-Wilmot", The Times, 1 March 1929, p. 11.
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