HMS Hogue (1900)
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 HMS Hogue |
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| Career |  |
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| Name: | HMS Hogue |
| Namesake: | Battle of La Hogue |
| Builder: | Vickers |
| Launched: | 13 August 1900 |
| Fate: | Sunk by U-9 on 22 September 1914 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tons burthen: | 12,000 tons |
| Length: | 472 ft (144 m) |
| Beam: | 69 ft 6 in (21.2 m) |
| Propulsion: | triple expansion engines twin screws |
| Speed: | 21 knots |
| Armament: |
2 × BL 9.2-inch (233.7 mm) Mk X guns |
HMS Hogue was a Cressy-class armoured cruiser in the Royal Navy. Hogue was sunk by the German U-boat U-9 on 22 September 1914.
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[edit] Service history
In June 1906 Hogue served in the 4th Cruiser Squadron on the North America & West Indies Station under the command of Captain Arthur Y. Moggridge.
Shortly after the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914, Hogue was assigned to the 7th Cruiser Squadron, tasked with patrolling the Broad Fourteens of the North Sea, in support of a force of destroyers and submarines based at Harwich which blocked the Eastern end of the Channel from German warships attempting to attack the supply route between England and France.
[edit] Fate
Hogue was sunk in action on 22 September 1914. At 7am, about half an hour after the action commenced, Hogue was struck by two torpedoes from U-9 as she attempted to rescue survivors from her sister ship, Aboukir. She sank within 15 minutes.
[edit] References
- Colledge, J. J. and Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475.
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