Hello

Could anybody let me know if there was an HMS Fesguard/Fisguard that saw action in the Great War. I have a report in a local newspaper (Retford Times) James Breddy was serving on the HMS Fesguard. In looking on the internet i have found an HMS Fisguard but this saw servie much later on

Thanks in anticpiation

Dorrie

Dorrie,

Fisguard Artificer training Hulk at Portsmouth

http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/i...169&hl=fisguard

Regards Charles

It's HMS Fisgard for 'tiffs training

Mick

Dorrie,

HMS Fisgard II sank of Portland 17 Sept 1914 with the loss of 21 men article may refer to this Fisgard.

Regards Charles

Having only recently discovered this forum and having joined the RN at HMS Fisgard, a stone class frigate at Torpoint used for basic training of artificers and also having been looking at the history of this establishment I thought I should reply to this.

Many were the vessels that worked their way through the list of hulks that made up HMS Fisgard in the early part of the twentieth century, and of the associated establishments of HMS Tenedos and HMS Indus.

A good strarting place for reseach is the 1983 published, 'The Story of HMS Fisgard' by Lieutenant P J Peyton, B.Sc. RN. This slim A5 book has provided a beginning for my further, ongoing, research into the history of the various vessels that became Fisgard hulks.

The Fisgard II alluded to above was in fact the ex HMS Invincible a 6010 tons ironclad of the Audacious class and built in 1869. The four ships of this class were built as smaller versions of the Bellerophon/Hercules type for service overseas as a counter to the increase in the number of French ironclads in the far flung.

This HMS Invincible was re-named HMS Erebus as a training ship in 1904 before becoming Fisgard II in 1906. She was on her way to the breakers when she foundered.