help to read service files / ships please WW1

[Noor]

Hi all,

Can some of you please help me to read / confirm the ships where this sailor served with? I assume Plymouth Hospital is a place where he worked, not stayed half a year (EDIT; he was SBA - Sick Berth Attendant so that was his assigned work place)? I didn't count shore stations (Vivid).

Plymouth Hospital 25 Oct 1913 – 6 Nov 1914 and then again 10 Nov 1914 – 19 Feb 1915.

HMS Indus 20 Feb 1915 – 5 Sep 1916.

HMS Centurion 6 Sep -1916 – 13 Mar 1919 (Battle of Jutland?)

HMS xxxxx 18 March 1919 – 30 Nov 1919

HMS Impregnable 1 Dec 1919 – 18 Jan 1921

He was finally discharged 14 Jun 1922.

Edited 7 hours ago by Noor

[DavidOwen]

HMS Powerful in 1919 I think. A training ship in 1919 renamed as Impregnable that year too. HMS Powerful (1895) - Wikipedia

[Jim Strawbridge]

Missing one is probably H.M.S. Powerful which was used as a training ship in Devonport. From Google :- "she was briefly assigned to the 7th Cruiser Squadron of the Third (Reserve) Fleet^[25] before she was reclassified as a boys training ship at Devonport in August 1912. Powerful was assigned as a tender to HMS Impregnable in 1913. She was reassigned to a training role on 23 September and was renamed Impregnable I in November 1919". That would explain the squiggle under Powerful on your listing, then Impregnable 1st December 1919 to 18th January 1921.    (David, you just beat me to it).

Edited 7 hours ago by Jim Strawbridge

[Noor]

Thanks David and Jim!

Edited 7 hours ago by Noor

[horatio2]

1 hour ago, Noor said:

HMS Centurion 6 Sep -1916 – 13 Mar 1919 (Battle of Jutland?)

Jutland took place on 31 May- 1 June 1916 when he was serving in HMS INDUS (training establishment at Devonport).

In fact his record shows no sea service other than CENTURION, all his drafts being to shore/training ships.

Edited 6 hours ago by horatio2

[Noor]

Ah, thanks horatio - I was reading about HMS Centurion that they were involved and I didn't paid full attention when actually he was transferred. Anyhow, thank you!

[Noor]

Also, he actually served straight after the war on hospital ship HMS Berbice - his Victory- and British War Medal were sent to there.

[horatio2]

Well spotted, @Noor  and helpful to have a name/number

Those post-WW1 drafts on his record are hard to read but I can now spot BERBICE.

https://historicalrfa.uk/rfa-berbice/

Edited 2 hours ago by horatio2