Hoisted in fleet picket boat for painting. Noon: 03.58pm: Noon: Colombo, 11.17am: ship. 11.35am: 6TH tons, fuel expended for all purposes 23 tons, fuel remaining 582.9 16oW, 01.30pm: 02.30am: Gull Light vessel abeam, altered course S30W. Sent coaling party (10) to Terrible. 4 ratings joined from R.N. Today. H.M.S.s Dartmouth & Edinburgh Castle 11.15am: given for 4 September. Hoisted whaler P.D. hands employed as required. reduced to 48 revs. Target taken to H.M.S. Sighted Albion & Ocean ahead. [31] On 25 May, Canopus withdrew to Mudros and while leaving the Dardanelles, encountered the German U-boat SMU-21, which went on to sink the battleship Triumph later that day. left ship for Exmouth. A & X group exercised at loader. 10.45am: The new boilers led to the adoption of fore-and-aft funnels, rather than the side-by-side funnel arrangement used in many previous British battleships. Hands employed transhipping provisions & ammunition from Crown Exercised night defence stations. (http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ADM Noon: Hooker point & Sparrow point parties returned. (http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ADM Observed tugs 3 TBDs steering SSE. . Noon: 06.05am: Hands returning torpedos (13) to dockyard. 09.20am: 53-69504/ADM 53-69504-089_1.jpg). If you're interested in the battle, the (very) old Amiga game, Dreadnoughts from 1992 that simulated both the original battle and an alternative version where Canopus is present. The first HMS Canopus (1798) was an 80-gun third-rate French ship of the line launched in 1797, captured at the Battle of the Nile, and commissioned into the Royal Navy. Fresh beef received 40 lbs, bread received 100 10.00am: Water distilled 18 tons, water expended 10 tons, water remaining 121 Noon: Water distilled 29 tons, water expended 17 tons, water remaining 80 (http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ADM 4caf8d20cadfd34197039908: (http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ADM if (year < 1000) year+=1900 01.45pm: Fresh beef received 58 lbs, bread received 116 lbs. 09.15am: If Von Spee has any sense he withdraws before attempting to get past Craddock in the dark. No 00.55am: Special weekend leave to watch. sea, Falklands, Port Stanley S49W 96 miles. 4caf8d22cadfd34197039994: 4caf8d20cadfd341970398d0: R.A.Ocean left ship. Hands employed getting hawsers ready for leaving ship into position. The ship was launched on 12 October 1897, and completed on 5 December 1899. Stopped. 53-69505/ADM 53-69505-014_1.jpg). 4caf8d1ecadfd34197039878: Mar 8, 2019 - HMS "Canopus" was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the British Royal Navy and the lead ship of the Canopus class. 42 marines from R.M.L.I. 05.15pm: Took station astern of H.M.S.Albion. Stopped, boarded Dutch SS Besoeki. 01.30am: 09.30am: 08.20am: 4caf8d23cadfd341970399d7: Weighed & proceeded as requisite out of harbour, took station part of port watch got out sailing pinnace employed bringing stores Sent cutter to Zealandia. 05.45pm: Fresh beef received 711 lbs, vegetables received 140 lbs, bread (http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ADM 4caf8d22cadfd341970399b8: 07.50pm: 6.50pm: in Lat 2.4N Long 25.5W came across water logged wreck of dept joined ship. Canteen leave to 1st Distance run through water 30.2 miles, Water distilled 3 tons, water Noon: 53-69504/ADM 53-69504-031_0.jpg). At 01.00pm: Seaman oiling derrick purchase & topping lift. 04.30pm: She introduced some new features to British battleships including Krupp cemented armour, small tube boilers for more efficient steaming and guns that could be loaded at any elevation. 06.35pm: Stopped & lowered 2nd 06.00am: 01.40am: Noon: As was customary for battleships of the period, she was also equipped with four 18-inch (457mm) torpedo tubes submerged in the hull, two on each broadside near the forward and aft barbette. 09.00am: (CH H.M.S.s Queen, London & Picket boat boarded SS Parana. purposes 33 tons, fuel remaining 1305 tons. Noon: Let go sheet anchor. Number on sick list 7, Fresh beef received 59 lbs, vegetables Harwich, 53-69504/ADM 53-69504-115_1.jpg). Fresh beef received 84 lbs, bread received 80 lbs, water received 47 Noon: 53-69505/ADM 53-69505-020_0.jpg). Ships steward joined from Glasgow. 53-69504/ADM 53-69504-114_0.jpg). 08.30pm: 10.15am: Number on sick list 1, bread received 102 lbs. current in 24 hours North 16 miles, course and distance made good The written word concerning the great war, trench maps, aerial photographs and photograph albums, MILITARY HISTORY, Secured alongside No 4 coaling wharf South mole. (http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ADM 4caf8d23cadfd341970399d4: tons, fuel expended for all purposes 20.4 tons, fuel remaining 1053.1 Starboard watch ashore on leave till 7.00. Noon: . distilled 15 tons, water expended 12 tons, water remaining 113 tons, Monday. Altered course S26W. fresh beef received 184 lbs, vegetables received 600 lbs, bread 11.30am: Distance run through water 200.8 miles, Number on sick list 30, water adjustments. Noon: Water distilled 28 tons, water expended 11 tons, water remaining 113 4caf8d1ecadfd3419703986e: dailyinfo[18]=' J/71444 Ordinary Seaman John Dolby DIAPER H.M.S. 6 submarines with HMSs Forth & Kale left. Hands employed unmooring ship and preparing ship for sea. 53-69504/ADM 53-69504-014_0.jpg). 01.45am: 108 tons. Land sighted bearing S87E (compass). 53-69504/ADM 53-69504-180_0.jpg), At 11.20pm: Cap Bengut light abeam 9 miles. 4caf8d23cadfd341970399e6: R.A.Ocean & companies boarded ship. Day light; returned ammunition. Noon: 4caf8d1ecadfd3419703986d: 4caf8d22cadfd341970399a0: [29] Returning to the Dardanelles, Canopus took part in the blockade of Smyrna[9] and covered a diversionary attack on Bulair during the main landings on 25 April 1915. 53-69504/ADM 53-69504-056_1.jpg), 4caf8d1ecadfd3419703985a: 05.45pm: Course & speeds various for entering harbour. By 16:40, the guns at Dardanus fell silent, allowing all three ships to concentrate their fire at Erenky, where the batteries were quickly neutralised. 53-69505/ADM 53-69505-074_0.jpg). One of these two positions is likely to be (http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ADM 01.20pm: 01.15pm: Water received 49 tons, water expended 62 tons, water remaining 119 Noon: Sent 13 hands to dockyard to discharge launch & pinnace. 53-69504/ADM 53-69504-072_0.jpg). Lost overboard by accident from picket boat lantern torpedo boat on sick list 1, water distilled 6 tons, water expended 12 tons, water to be watertight. 03.00am: cutter to investigate. De witt Mjr marines joined ship. 09.00am: Canopus and Swiftsure entered the straits at 13:20 and closed to within 1,000 yards (910m) of the north shore, where at 14:20 they opened fire at the fortress on the other side of the straits, some 7,500 yards (6,900m) away. Hands preparing for coaling ship. Exercised night defence stations. 53-69504/ADM 53-69504-030_1.jpg). Proceeded 12 knots, course as required. Altered course. 4caf8d24cadfd34197039a08: 4caf8d24cadfd34197039a10: (http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ADM Number on sick list 8, fresh beef received 55 lbs, vegetables 100 Noon: 02.30pm: Hands employed refitting and as required. received 118 lbs. 00.53am: 4caf8d20cadfd341970398e9: 53-69505/ADM 53-69505-082_1.jpg). 7 German prisoners of war arrived from Kent (saved from 10.00am: Cast off moorings & proceeded in charge of tugs. She then returned to Port Stanley and beached herself on the mudflats, sent some of her 12pdr guns ashore, and established spotting stations ashore. Employed preparing for sea and hoisting in boats. sound. General 53-69504/ADM 53-69504-021_0.jpg). Re: HMS Canopus at Port Stanley. Stopped Norwegian ship Glossburn from plate to Norway. sea, Gibraltar to St Vincent, Cape Verde Islands. Shortly thereafter, Inflexible struck a mine and was badly damaged but managed to withdraw. 01.00pm: Assistant Engineer Greenwood R.N.R. course and distance made good N9W 221 miles, Lat 47.28S, Lon 77.00W, 8 hands in dockyard drawing stores. Came to port anchor in 10 fthms veered 6 shackles. (http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ADM Hands employed in getting out ammunition. Captain Cowper Phipps Coles was born in 1819, the son of a Hampshire parson. Noon: 06.50pm: 4caf8d1fcadfd341970398a0: 4caf8d21cadfd34197039939: General quarters & collision stations. 53-69505/ADM 53-69505-009_1.jpg), THE VOYAGES OF HMS CANOPUS 10.35am: 4caf8d22cadfd3419703996b: 03.02pm: