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HMS Ramsey (1914) (1st)
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This the first ship to carry the name HMS Ramsey was an armed
boarding steamer. Originally the Duke of Lancaster owned by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. Briefly owned by the Turkish Patriotic Committee then bought by the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company in 1912. Requisitioned by the Admiralty 28-Oct-1914, and commissioned 20-Nov-1914. Attached to the Grand Fleet at Scapa Flow, she was used on night patrols. On 08-Aug-1915 she intercepted a steamship flying the Russian flag, but it was the German Auxiliary Minesweeper Meteor. After being crippled by point blank gunfire she was hit amidships by torpedo and sunk. Sixty of her crew were killed and the surviving forty three taken prisoner. The next day Meteor was herself intercepted by superior British forces and scuttled herself. The surviving members of Ramsey's crew returned home in HMS Undaunted.
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