HMS Defiance: Devonport's Submarine Base

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After serving as a prison ship at Chatham from 1813, she was broken up in 1817. [1] Captains [ edit ] English ship Defiance (1590) was a 46-gun galleon built in 1590. She was rebuilt and reduced to 34 guns in 1614 and was sold in 1650. Adkins, Roy (2011), Trafalgar: The Biography of a Battle, Little, Brown Book Group, p. 88, ISBN 978-1-4055-1344-9 Theory instruction was dispensed by Officers, practical work by Chiefs. We learnt (?) maths, electrical principles, RN history (official and unofficial), how torpedoes worked, trimming gyros, sound powered telephones, Y-dischargers, depth charges, machine shop practice, fitting skills and other bits and pieces. The best bit of fun was fire fighting and use of breathing apparatus in smoke filled ships. There was one fire alarm on Androm which I had to attend fully kitted. There was a smallfire which I found and extinguished, I never admitted I had started it accidentally.

the Master's report, " spared them" (the line of battle ships) " main-sail and top-gallant sails, and sailing two or three points free or before the wind, beat them still more." At this time the Defiance's draught of water forward was 20 feet 5 inches; aft, 22 feet 5 inches; height of the midship port, 5 feet 8 inches. Her masts were stayed thus: "foremast nearly upright, main and mizenmasts rake aft." [2] HMS Defiance (1783) was a 74-gun third rate of launched in 1783. She was used as a prison ship from 1813 and was broken up in 1817. Another topic when I joined a submarine early 1950 as an additional for training , I discovered the WW2 Electrician and his EMs , had a converted from LTOs , that previously formed the ship electricians within the Torpedo Branch prior to 1947. They were not actually Torpedo men , being trained in ship electrical maintenance . There are those who state on the web that the new 1947 Electrical Branch was formed mainly by "Wire men" --- this not so . MacDougall, Phillip (2022). "The Naval Mutinies of 1798". The Mariner's Mirror. Society for Nautical Research. 108 (4): 423–438. The decision was made to bring them out into the light and airy spaces of the Box. “As we worked with the architects on the layout of the new building, we began to realise the potential of the atrium,” said Coombs. “The space is triple-height and filled with light, and this gave us the idea of positioning the figureheads up high, as though they were still on the prows of a flotilla of great ships.”

At more than two tonnes and four metres high, the 14th figure, William IV (King Billy), is too hefty to be hung from the ceiling of the Box and has instead been given a prominent position at ground level. William IV is too hefty to be hung from the ceiling of the Box and has instead been given a prominent position at ground level. Photograph: Jim Wileman/The Guardian

Prior to the commissioning of H.M.S. Defiance in December 1884 for service as the Royal Navy’s Devonport Torpedo School, (The Navy’s first torpedo school had been set up on HMS Vernon at Portsmouth in 1876) only a limited amount of instruction had been given in torpedo warfare at Devonport by a Torpedo Lieutenant on board the Perseus, which was at that time attached to Cambridge, the Gunnery School of those days. A special railway station to serve personnel travelling to and from the school, known as " Defiance Platform", was situated just west of Saltash railway station from 1905 until 1930.Those of your former ilk are recorded on each plaque with their correct electrical branch rate at that time: Very many thanks for the delivery of the two ties this morning. I am grateful for your very prompt and efficient service. Badge arrived today and is just the job... Thanks for all your help... I've passed you details onto other veterans. She was sold on 26 June 1931 to Castle's Shipbreaking Yard for dismantling at Millbay, Plymouth. [9] Doige's Annual for 1932 poignantly describes her as "the last of England's 'Wooden Walls'".